Position Papers -- With or without Meaning? Hype Cycles in Language Technology and what We Can Learn from Them -- Observatory for Language Resources and Machine Translation in Europe - LT Observatory -- The Rise of the Conversational Interface: A new Kid on the Block -- Spanish Language Technologies Plan -- Improving Collaboration between the European Language Technology Industry & Research: A new Framework for Supply & Demand -- Contributed Papers -- LifeLine dialogues with Roberta -- An affective utility model of user motivation for counselling dialogue systems -- Exploring flexibility in natural language generation throughout discursive analysis of new textual genres -- Bootstrapping technique + embeddings = Emotional corpus annotated automatically -- Rapid construction of a web-enabled medical speech to sign language translator using recorded video -- Incorporating syllable phonotactics to improve grapheme to phoneme translation -- Hybrid conceptual and statistical measure for semantic textual similarity evaluation -- General representation model for text similarity -- Extending feature decay algorithms using alignment entropy -- Towards a topic discovery and tracking system with application to news items.