Conference Organizing Committee

General Chair:

• Jennifer Chu-Carroll, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Program Co-Chairs:

• Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T
• Eric Fosler-Lussier, The Ohio State University
• Ellen Riloff, University of Utah

Area Chairs:

• Roberto Basili, University of Rome: Semantics
• Guiseppe Carenini, University of British Columbia: Summarization and Generation
• Yejin Choi, Stony Brook University: Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
• Christy Doran, MITRE: Language Resources Novel Evaluation Methods
• Jason Eisner, Johns Hopkins University: Phonology and Morphology Word Segmentation
• George Foster, National Research Council Canada: Machine Translation
• Roxana Girju University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Social Media Analysis and Processing
• Heng Ji, City University of New York: Information Extraction
• Sadao Kurohashi, Kyoto University: Syntactic Tagging and Chunking
• Matt Lease, University of Texas Austin: Information Retrieval and Question Answering
• Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh: Discourse Dialogue and Pragmatics
• Deepak Ravichandran, Google: Information Extraction
• Guiseppe Ricardi, University of Trento: Spoken Language Processing
• Richard Rose, McGill University: Spoken Language Processing
• Giorgio Satta, University of Padova: Syntax and Parsing
• Fei Sha, University of Southern California: Machine Learning for Language Processing
• Suzanne Stevenson, University of Toronto: Semantics
• David Traum, University of Southern California: End-to-end Language Processing Systems
• Scott Yih, Microsoft: Machine Learning for Language Processing
• Luke Zettlemoyer, University of Washington: Syntax and Parsing
• Bowen Zhou, IBM: Machine Translation
• Jerry Zhu, University of Wisconsin: Document Categorization/Topic Clustering

Local Arrangements Chair:

• Priscilla Rasmussen, ACL Business Office, acl-AT-aclweb.org

• Advisory committee:

• Sabine Bergler, Concordia University
• Guy Lapalme, Université de Montréal

Workshops Co-Chairs:

• Colin Cherry, National Research Council of Canada
• Mona Diab, Columbia University

Tutorials Co-Chairs:

• Jacob Eisenstein, CMU
• Radu Florian, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Demos Co-Chairs:

• Aria Haghighi, Prismatic
• Yaser Al-Onaizan, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Student Workshop:

• Co-chairs:

• Rivka Levitan, Columbia University
• Myle Ott, Cornell University

• Faculty Advisors:

• Roger Levy, UCSD
• Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania

Publications:

• Nizar Habash, Columbia University
• William Schuler, OSU

Publicity:

• Smaranda Muresan, Rutgers University

Exhibits:

• Joel Tetreault, Education Testing Services

Webmaster:

• Dirk Hovy, USC/ISI