Areas, chairs, and area submissions

ACL 2011

Area	Chair(s)	Submissions (long, short)
Phonology/Morphology, Tagging and Chunking, Word Segmentation	Anna Feldman, Greg Kondrak	34,22
Syntax and Parsing	Xavier Carreras, Ryan McDonald	56,48
Semantics	Diana McCarthy, Deniz Yuret	48, 41
Discourse, Dialogue, and Pragmatics	Kentaro Inui, Svetlana Stoyanchev	31, 23
Summarization and Generation	Yang Liu, Manabu Okumura	36, 35
Statistical and Machine Learning Methods	Lluis Marquez, Alessandro Moschitti	42, 27
Machine Translation: Statistical Models	Shankar Kumar, Taro Watanabe	56, 39
Machine Translation: Methods, Applications and Evaluations	Elliott Macklovitch, Michel Simard	33, 53
Information Retrieval	Fabrizio Sebastiani	26, 11
Question Answering	Bernardo Magnini	19, 10
Text Mining and Information Extraction	Razvan Bunescu, Alexander Yates	51, 38
Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining and Text Classification	Katja Markert, Xiaojun Wan	45, 38
Spoken Language Processing	Pascale Fung	20, 13
Natural Language Processing Applications	Vasile Rus	30, 51
Language Resources	Chu-Ren Huang, Dan Tufis	32, 26
Multilinguality	Thamar Solorio	24, 16
NLP for Web 2.0	Vivi Nastase	31, 16
Linguistic Creativity	Carlo Strapparava	20, 17

ACL 2010

Area	Chair(s)	Submissions (long + short)
Lexical semantics	Tim Baldwin, Roberto Navigli	87
Machine Learning	Phil Blunsom, Walter Daelemans	87
Information Extraction	Kalina Bontcheva, Hang Li	52
Formal semantics	Johan Bos	24
Sentiment Analysis	Claire Cardie, Theresa Wilson	69
Text mining	Rob Gaizauskas	30
Machine Translation	Keith Hall, Chris Quirk	100
Speech processing	Julia Hirschberg	33
Resources	Nancy Ide	50
Multi-modal	Michael Johnston	18
Psycholinguistics	Roger Levy	16
Question Answering and paraphrasing	Chin-Yew Lin	40
Parsing, grammatical inference, syntax	Yusuke Miyao, Khalil Sima'an	88
Generation and summarisation	Ani Nenkova, Bonnie Webber	55
Discourse and dialogue	Jon Oberlander, Matthew Stone	56
Mathematical linguistics	Stuart Shieber	29
Tagging, segmentation and morphology	Richard Sproat	51
Bioinformatics	Jun'ichi Tsujii	12
Information Retrieval	ChengXiang Zhai	33

COLING 2010

Area	Chair(s)	Submissions (long. we had no short)
Machine Translation	Chris Callison-Burch, Qun Liu	109
Semantics	Sebastian Pado, Takenobu Tokunaga	102
Sentiment Analysis and Text Classification	Bo Pang	61
Information Extraction	Gary Geunbae Lee	61
Information Retrieval and Question Answering	Rosie Jones	55
Summarization and Generation	Donia Scott	53
Text Mining and NLP Applications	Ming Zhou	50
Parsing	Sadao Kurohashi	48
Statistical and Machine Learning Methods	David A Smith	42
Language Resources	Nicoletta Calzolari	38
Discourse and Pragmatics	Caroline Sporleder	38
Chinese Natural Language Processing	Nianwen Xue	34
Tagging and Morphology-Phonology	Rajeev Sangal	29
Syntax and Grammar	Emily Bender	28
Multilingualism	Pierre Isabelle	26
Dialog and Multimodal	Justine Cassell	16
Spoken Language Processing	Haizhou Li	9
Cognitive Modeling	Roger Levy	9

ACL 2009

Area	Chair(s)	Submissions (long)
Phonology/Morphology, Tagging and Chunking, Word Segmentation	Greg Kondrak	29
Syntax and Parsing	Noah Smith, James Curran	47
Semantics	Eneko Agirre, Rada Mihalcea	67
Discourse, Dialogue, and Pragmatics	Massimo Poesio, Michael Strube	41
Summarization and Generation	Anja Belz	44
Statistical and Machine Learning Methods	Jianfeng Gao, Jun Suzuki	36
Machine Translation	Hai Feng Wang, Philipp Koehn	80
Information Retrieval	Hsin-Hsi Chen	29
Information Extraction	Ellen Riloff, Satoshi Sekine	52
Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining and Text Classification	Giuseppe Carenini	44
Spoken Language Processing	Helen Meng	20
Question Answering	Sanda Harabagiu	23
Text Mining and Natural Language Processing Applications	Sophi Ananiadou	19
Language Resources	Keh-Jiann Chen

EMNLP 2009

Area	Chair(s)	Submissions (long)
Phonology/Morphology, Tagging and Chunking, Word Segmentation	Jason Eisner	24
Syntax and Parsing	Steve Clark	29
Semantics	Vivi Nastase	45
Discourse, Dialogue, and Pragmatics	Tim Paek	28
Summarization and Generation	Chin-Yew Lin	25
Statistical and Machine Learning Methods	Miles Osborne	32
Machine Translation	Adam Lopez	68
Information Retrieval and Question Answering	Hang Li	33
Information Extraction and Text Mining	Marius Pasca	39
Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining and Text Classification	Theresa Wilson	37
Spoken Language Processing	Eric Fosler-Lussier	11
Natural Language Processing Applications	Carlo Strapparava	22
Language Resources	Katrin Erk	26
Multilinguality	Mona Diab	22
NLP for Web 2.0	Iryna Gurevych	20

COLING 2008

Area	Chair(s)	Submissions (long. we had no short)
Lexicon, lexical semantics, word sense disambiguation	Paul Buitelaar	45
Semantics	Stephen Pulman Mary Dalrymple	46
Discourse, dialogue	Eva Hajicova	24
NLG, summarisation	Robert Dale	36
Parsing, morphology, grammar learning	Mark Johnson	68
Machine Translation and Multilinguality	Pierre Isabelle, Miles Osborne	86
Information Retrieval, text and web mining, multimedia	Junichi Tsujii	54
Information Extraction, opinion and sentiment Analysis	Rob Gaizauskus	24
Paraphrasing and Textual Entailment	Bill Dolan	21
Speech and multimodality	Julia Hirschberg	16
Resources	Chu-Ren Huang	56
Learning	Dan Roth	29