Organizing Committee
General Chair
- Jian Su Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R)
Program Chairs
- Kevin Duh Johns Hopkins University
- Xavier Carreras Xerox Research Centre Europe
Workshop Chairs
- Annie Louis University of Essex
- Greg Kondrak University of Alberta
Tutorial Chairs
- Bishan Yang Carnegie Mellon University
- Rebecca Hwa University of Pittsburgh
Sponsorship Chairs
- Michel Galley Microsoft Research
- Hang Li Huawei Technologies (ISC Representative for EMNLP)
Publication Chairs
- Siddharth Patwardhan Apple
- Daniele Pighin (Advisor) Google Inc.
Publicity Chair
- Saif M. Mohammad National Research Council Canada
Student Scholarship Chair and Student Volunteer Coordinator
- Vincent Ng University of Texas at Dallas
Handbook Chair
- Swapna Somasundaran Educational Testing Services
Website Chair
- Jackie C.K. Cheung McGill University
SIGDAT Liaison
- Chris Callison-Burch University of Pennsylvania
Local Arrangements Chair
- Priscilla Rasmussen ACL Business Manager (including issues on invitation letters and registration)
Program Committee
Program Chairs
- Kevin Duh Johns Hopkins University
- Xavier Carreras Xerox Research Centre Europe
Area Chairs
Information Extraction, Information Retrieval, and Question Answering
- Nate Chambers United States Naval Academy
- Ruihong Huang Texas A&M University
- Min-Yen Kan National University of Singapore
- Alan Ritter The Ohio State University
- Scott Wen-Tau Yih Microsoft Research
Language and Vision
- Sanja Fidler University of Toronto
- Julia Hockenmaier University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Linguistic Theories and Psycholinguistics
- Suzanne Stevenson University of Toronto
Machine Learning
- Guillaume Bouchard University College London
- Kyunghyun Cho New York University
- Kuzman Ganchev Google
- Ariadna Quattoni Xerox Research Centre Europe
- Eric Ringger Facebook
Machine Translation and Multilinguality
- John DeNero UC Berkeley
- Alex Fraser Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen
- Yang Liu Tsinghua University
- Dekai Wu Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Segmentation, Tagging, and Parsing
- Michael Collins Columbia University
- Liang Huang Oregon State University
- Daisuke Kawahara Kyoto University
- Andre Martins Priberam Labs
Semantics
- Yoav Artzi Cornell Tech
- Georgiana Dinu IBM
- Ed Grefenstette Google DeepMind
- Ray Mooney University of Texas at Austin
- Laura Rimell University of Cambridge
Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
- Dirk Hovy University of Copenhagen
- Bing Liu University of Illinois at Chicago
- Saif Mohammad National Research Council Canada
Social Media and Computational Social Science
- Tim Baldwin University of Melbourne
- Smaranda Muresan Columbia University
Spoken Lanugage Processing
- Brian Roark Google
- Geoff Zweig Microsoft Research
Summarization, Generation, Discourse, Dialogue
- Manfred Stede Potsdam University
- Michael Strube Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
- Lucy Vanderwende Microsoft Research
- Wei Xu University of Pennsylvania
Text Mining and NLP Applications
- Preslav Nakov Qatar Computing Research Institute
- Vivi Nastase FBK
- David Smith Northeastern University
- Joel Tetreault Yahoo! Labs
Program Committee Members
The full list of program committee members will be announced in the conference proceedings.