Conference Chairs

For more conference chairs, see Additional conference chairs.

ACL Conference

Year	General Chair	Program Chair	Local Arrangements Chair
2012	Haizhou Li	Chin-Yew Lin, Miles Osborne	Gary Geunbae Lee, Jong C. Park
2011	Dekang Lin	Rada Mihalcea, Yuji Matsumoto	Brian Roark
2010	Jan Hajic	Sandra Carberry, Stephen Clark	Joakim Nivre
2009 w/ IJCNLP	Keh-Yih Su	Jian Su, Janyce Wiebe	Haizhou Li
2008 w/ NAACL HLT	Kathleen McKeown	Johanna Moore, Simone Teufel, Sadaoki Furui (speech), James Allan (IR)	Chris Brew
2007	John Carroll	Annie Zaenen, Antal van den Bosch	Eva Hajicova
2006 w/ COLING	Nicoletta Calzolari	Claire Cardie, Pierre Isabelle	Robert Dale, Cecile Paris
2005 w/ NAACL	Kevin Knight	Hwee Tou Ng, Kemal Oflazer	Dragomir Radev
2004	Donia Scott	Walter Daelemans, Marilyn Walker	Toni Badia
2003	Jun'ichi Tsujii	Erhard Hinrichs, Dan Roth	Kenji Araki
2002 w/ NAACL	Pierre Isabelle	Eugene Charniak, Dekang Lin	Martha Palmer
2001	Bonnie Webber	Norbert Reithinger, Giorgio Satta	Patrick Saint-Dizier
2000	Hitoshi Iida	K. Vijay-Shanker, Chang-Ning Huang	Dekai Wu
1999		Robert Dale, Ken Church	Bonnie Dorr
1998 w/COLING		Christian Boitet, Pete Whitelock	Pierre Isabelle
1997		Philip Cohen ,Wolfgang Wahlster	Maria Felisa Verdejo
1996		Aravind Joshi, Martha Palmer	Douglas Appelt, Geoffrey Pullum
1995		Hans Uszkoreit	Robert Berwick
1994		James Pustejovsky	Janyce Wiebe
1993		Lenhart Schubert	Terry Patten, Robert Kasper
1992		Henry Thompson	Sandra Carberry, Dan Chester, Kathleen McCoy
1991		Douglas Appelt	Peter Norvig
1990		Robert Berwick	Rich Thomason
1989		Julia Hirschberg	Richard Rosenberg
1988		Jerry Hobbs	William Rappaport
1987		Candy Sidner	Douglas Appelt
1986		Alan Biermann	Kathleen McKeown, Cecile Paris
1985		William Mann	Martha Evens, Victor Yngve
1984
1983		Mitch Marcus	Jon Allen
1982		Madeleine Bates	C. Raymond Perrault
1981		C. Raymond Perrault	Jerry Kaplan
1980	Norman Sondheimer ?	Gary Hendrix	Kathleen McKeown
1979		Norman Sondheimer	Jim Levin

NAACL Conference

Year	General Conference Chair	Program Chair	Local Arrangements Chair
2010	Ronald Kaplan	Jill Burstein, Mary Harper, Gerald Penn	David Chiang, Eduard Hovy, Jonathan May, Jason Riesa
2009	Mari Ostendorf	Michael Collins, Lucy Vanderwende, Doug Oard, Shri Narayanan	Martha Palmer and James Martin
2008 w/ ACL
2007 w/ HLT	Candace Sidner	Tanja Schultz, Matthew Stone, ChengXiang Zhai	James Allen, Daniel Gildea, Lenhart Schubert
2006 w/ HLT	Robert C. Moore	Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Jeff Bilmes, Mark Sanderson	Satoshi Sekine
2005 w/ ACL
2004 w/ HLT	Julia Hirschberg	Susan Dumais, Daniel Marcu, Salim Roukos	Christine Doran
2003 w/ HLT	Eduard Hovy	Marti Hearst, Mari Ostendorf	Dekang Lin
2002 w/ ACL
2001	Lori Levin	Kevin Knight	Alon Lavie
2000 w/ ANLP	Marie Meteer	Janyce Wiebe, Sergei Nirenburg	Rick Wojcik

ANLP Conference

Year	Conference Chair	Program Chair	Local Arrangements Chair
2000 w/ NAACL
1997		Ralph Grishman	John White
1994
1992
1988
1983

EACL Conference

Year	Conference Chair	Program Chair	Local Arrangements Chair
2009
2006		Diana McCarthy, Shuly Wintner	Bernardo Magnini, Alberto Lavelli
2003	Claire Gardent	Ann Copestake, Jan Hajic	Ferenc Kiefer
1999		Henry Thompson, Alex Lascarides	Koenraad de Smedt
1997 w/ ACL
1993		Steven Krauwer, Michael Moortgat, Louis des Tombe	Renee Pohlmann
1991		Jurgen Kunze, Dorothee Reimann
1989		Harold Somers, Mary McGee Wood
1987		Bente Maegaard	Rolf Christensen
1985		Maghi King	Michael Rosner
1983	Antonio Zampolli

COLING Conference

Year	Conference Chair	Program Chair	Local Arrangements Chair
2006 w/ ACL
2004	Martin Kay	Sergei Nirenburg	Margaret King
2002		Winfried Lenders	Chu-Ren Huang, Sharon Wang
2000		Martin Kay	Hans Uszkoreit
1998 w/ ACL
1996		J. Tsujii	B. Maegaard
1990
1988
1984

IJCNLP Conference

Year	Conference Chair	Program Chair	Local Arrangements Chair
2011	Kam-Fai Wong	Haifeng Wang, David Yarowsky	Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Hitoshi Isahara
2009 w/ ACL	Keh-Yih Su	Jian Su, Janyce Wiebe	Haizhou Li
2008	Jong-Hyeok Lee	Yuji Matsumoto, Ann Copestake	Rajeev Sangal
2005	Key-Sun Choi	Robert Dale, Kam-fai Wong	Jong-Hyeok Lee
2004	Guangnan Ni, Benjamin Tsou	Keh-Yih Su, Jun-ichi Tsujii	Youqi Cao

HLT Conference

Note: starting in 2007, "HLT" became the name of the NAACL conference (and, hopefully, of the ACL conferences when in NA). There is currently no body that represents a conference called "HLT" other than the NAACL Board.

Year	Conference Chair	Program Chair	Local Arrangements Chair
2006 w/ NAACL
2005 w/ EMNLP
2004 w/ NAACL
2003 w/ NAACL
2002	Mitch Marcus, David Yarowsky
2001	James Allan, Mitch Marcus

EMNLP Conference

Year	Program Chair	Local Arrangements Chair
2010	Hang Li, Lluís Màrquez	Regina Barzilay
2009	Philipp Koehn, Rada Mihalcea	Haizhou Li
2008	Mirella Lapata, Hwee Tou Ng	Priscilla Rasmussen
2007 w/ CoNLL	Jason Eisner	Jan Hajic
2006	Dan Jurafsky, Eric Gaussier	James Curran
2005	Chris Brew, Lee-Feng Chien, Katrin Kirchhoff	Priscilla Rasmussen
2004	Dekang Lin, Dekai Wu
2003	Michael Collins, Mark Steedman
2002	Jan Hajic, Yuji Matsumoto
2001	Lillian Lee, Donna Harman
2000	Hinrich Schuetze, Keh-Yih Su
1999	Pascale Fung, Joe Zhou
1998 held as EMNLP	Nancy Ide
1998 held as VLC
1997 held as EMNLP
1997 held as VLC	Huang Changning, Ken Church, Joe Zhou
1996 held as EMNLP
1996 held as VLC	Eva Ejerhed, Ido Dagan
1995 held as VLC	Hans Uszkoreit	Robert Berwick
1994 held as VLC
1993 held as VLC	Lenhart Schubert	Terry Patten, Robert Kasper