This Second Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing focuses on "the application of natural language processing techniques to real world problems" and represents many of the advances that have been made since the Association for Computational Linguistics organized its first such conference four years ago in Santa Monica, California.In addition to presentations of thirty-two papers, a panel discussion on "Natural Language Interfaces: Present and Future," and six tutorials, the conference includes a variety of exhibits and demonstrations. The papers, the introduction to the panel session, and abstracts of the tutorials are included in this volume.