Program Co-Chairs
• Chin-Yew Lin
   Microsoft Research Asia
• Miles Osborne
   University of Edinburgh

Area Chairs

 Question Answering
  • Hongyuan Zha
     School of Computational Science and Engineering, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Hsin-Hsi Chen
     Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

 Word Segmentation, Morphology and Phonology
  • Kemal Oflazer
     Carnegie Mellun University - Qatar

 Discourse and dialogue
  • Mikio Nakano
    Honda Research Institute, Japan
  • Andrei Popescu-Belis
    Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland

 Lexicon and Ontology
 • Eneko Agirre
    University of the Basque Country, Spain

 NLP Applications
 • Jason Baldridge
    The University of Texas at Austin, USA
 • David Weir
    University of Sussex, UK

 Machine Learning
 • Trevor Cohn
    University of Sheffield, UK
 • Mark Dredze
    Johns Hopkins University, USA

 Social media and sentiment analysis
 • Noah Smith
    Carnegie Mellon University, USA
 • Jan Wiebe
    University of Pittsburgh, USA

 Multilinguality
 • Daniel M. Bikel
    Google Research, USA
 • Mona T. Diab
    Center for Computational Learning Systems, Columbia University, USA

 Language Resources
 • Fei Xia
    Univ. of Washington, Seattle, USA

 Machine Translation
 • Marcello Federico
    Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy
 • Adam Lopez
    Human Language Technology Center of Excellence, Johns Hopkins University, USA
 • David Talbot
    Google Research, USA
 • Hua Wu
    Baidu, China

 Lexical Semantics
 • Evgeniy Gabrilovich
    Google, USA
 • Naoaki Okazaki
    Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Japan

 Syntax/parsing
 • Stephen Clark
    University of Cambridge, UK
 • Liang Huang
    University Southern California, USA

 Summarisation and Generation
 • Anja Belz
    School of Computing, Engineering and Maths, University of Brighton, UK
 • Ani Nenkova
    University of Pennsylvania, USA

 Speech
 • Chung-Hsien Wu
    Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, TAIWAN

 Information Extraction and Information Retrieval
 • Jian Su
    Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
 • Jianfeng Gao
    Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA
 • Vincent Ng
    University of Texas at Dallas, USA