Program Committee

Co-chairs

Keh-Yih Su (Behavior Design Corporation, Hsinchu)
Jun-ichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo, Tokyo)

Area Chairs

Information Retrieval
Sung Hyon Myaeng (Information and Communications University, Daejeon)

FSA, Parsing Algorithms
John Carroll (Sussex University, Brighton)

Theories and Formalisms for Morphology, Syntax and Semantics
Ann Copestake (University of Cambridge, Cambridge)

Semantic Disambiguation
Martha Palmer (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)

Taggers, Chunkers, Shallow Parsers
Yuji Matsumoto (NAIST, Nara)

Word Segmentation
Keh-Jiann Chen (Academia Sinica, Taipei)

Statistical Models and Machine Learning for NLP
Dekang Lin (University of Alberta, Alberta)

Machine Translation and Multilinguality
Franz Och (ISI-USC, Los Angeles)
Tiejun Zhao (Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin)

Text Mining
Kenji Yamanishi (NEC, Tokyo)

Lexical Semantics, Ontology and Linguistic Resource
Chu-Ren Huang (Academia Sinica, Taipei)
Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa, Pisa)

Text and Sentence Generation
Robert Dale (Macquarie University, Sydney)

Dialogue and Discourse
Laurent Romary (LORIA, Paris)

Automatic Abstraction and Text Summarization
Manabu Okumura(Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo)

Information Extraction, Q/A
Hwee Tou Ng (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

NLP Software and Application
Gary Geunbae Lee (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang).
Declerck Thierry (DFKI and Saarland University, Saarbruecken)

Speech
Chin-Hui Lee (Georgia Institute of Tech, Atlanta)
Chengqing Zong,(Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing)

Thematic Session Organizers

TS-1 Natural Language Learning using Both Labeled and Unlabeled Data
Hang Li (Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing)

TS-2 Natural Language Technology in Mobile Information Retrieval and Text Processing User Interface
Michael Kuehn (University of Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz)
Mun-Kew Leong (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii (University of Tokyo, Tokyo)

TS-3 Text mining in Biomedicine
Sophia Ananiadou (Salford University, Manchester)
Jong C. Park (KAIST, Daejeon)