Within the overall EAGLES initiative, there were obvious technical overlaps between the activities of the five Working Groups and, more specifically, between the Spoken Language Working Group and all four other Working Groups (see Figure 1.1). The exchange of information between groups was encouraged, therefore in the first instance, selected members of the Spoken Language Working Group also participated in other Groups. Also, in view of the very specific commonalities that existed between the Spoken Language Working Group and the Lexicon and Corpus Working Groups, common ``Cross-Groups'' were established.