Local Arrangements Chairs: James Allen, Daniel Gildea, Lenhart Schubert, U. of Rochester

Program Co-Chairs:

• Tanja Schultz, Carnegie Mellon U.
• Matthew Stone, Rutgers U.
• ChengXiang Zhai, U. of Illinois

Publicity chairs:

• Tomek Strzalkowski, SUNY Albany
• Dilek Hakkani-Tür, ICSI
• Miles Osbourne, Edinburgh U.

Workshop/Tutorial chairs:

• Marti Hearst, UC Berkeley
• Gina Levow, U. of Chicago
• James Allan, U. of Massachusetts

Demos chairs:

• Bob Carpenter, Alias I.
• Amanda Stent, SUNY Stony Brook
• Jason Williams, AT&T

Exhibits chair:

• Tim Paek, Microsoft

Sponsorship chair:

• David Day, MITRE

Publications committee:

• Yang Liu, UT Dallas
• Ronnie Smith, East Carolina U.
• Ellen Voorhees, NIST

Doctoral Consortium:
Faculty Advisor: Julia Hirschberg, Columbia U.
Student Organizers: Jackson Liscombe Columbia U.; Phil Michalak, U. of Rochester

Treasurer: Priscilla Rasmussen, ACL

Chair NAACL and general advisor for the conference: Owen Rambow, Columbia U.

Senior Program Members:

• Emily Bender, University of Washington
• Alan Black, Carnegie Mellon University
• Andrei Broder, Yahoo! Inc.
• Donna Byron, Ohio State University
• Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University
• Li Deng, Microsoft Research
• Oren Etzioni, University of Washington
• Jianfeng Gao, Microsoft Research
• Nizar Habash, Columbia University
• Sanda Harabagiu, University of Texas, Dallas
• Julia Hockenmaier, University of Pennsylvania
• Rebecca Hwa, University of Pittsburgh
• Dietrich Klakow, Saarland University, Germany
• Dan Klein, University of California, Berkeley
• Philipp Koehn, University of Edinburgh
• Alexander Koller, Columbia University
• Liz Liddy, Syracuse University
• Dekang Lin, Google Inc.
• Ryan McDonald, Google Inc.
• Ani Nenkova, Stanford University
• Jian-yun Nie, University of Montreal
• Patrick Pantel, University of Southern California
• John Prager, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
• Philip Resnik, University of Maryland, College Park
• Eric Ringger, Brigham Young University
• Brian Roark, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology
• Suzanne Stevenson, University of Toronto
• David Traum, University of Southern California
• Gokhan Tur, SRI International
• Michael White, Ohio State University