Conference Organizing Committee

• General Chair
  • Dekang Lin, Google
• Program Co-Chairs
  • Yuji Matsumoto, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
  • Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas
• Local Arrangements Committee -- unless otherwise noted, at OHSU (Oregon Health & Science University)
  • Brian Roark (chair)
  • Nate Bodenstab (webmeister)
  • Peter Heeman (exhibitions)
  • Christian Monson, Nuance (student volunteers)
  • Zak Shafran and Meg Mitchell (social)
  • Richard Sproat (sponsorship)
  • Mahsa Yarmohammadi and Masoud Rouhizadeh (student housing coordinators)
  • Aaron Dunlop (local publications coordinator)
• Mentoring Chair
• Tim Baldwin, University of Melbourne
• Publications Chair
  • Guodong Zhou, Suzhou University
• Tutorial Co-chairs
  • Patrick Pantel, Microsoft Research
  • Andy Way, Dublin City University
• Workshop Co-chairs:
  • Hal Daume III, University of Maryland
  • John Carroll, University of Sussex
• Demo Chair:
  • Sadao Kurohashi, Kyoto University
• Student Research Workshop
  • Student Co-chairs
    • Sasa Petrovic, Edinburgh
    • Emily Pitler, UPenn
    • Ethan Selfridge, OHSU
  • Faculty Advisors
    • Miles Osborne, Edinburgh
    • Thamar Solorio, University of Alabama at Birmingham
• ACL Conference Coordination Committee Chair
  • Ido Dagan
• ACL Business Manager
  • Priscilla Rasmussen