Area Chairs

Summarization and Generation:

• Mirella Lapata — University of Edinburgh, UK

NLP related Machine Learning:

• Amir Globerson — The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Syntax and Parsing:

• Eugene Charniak — Brown University, USA
• Keith Hall — Google Research, Switzerland

Discourse Dialogue and Pragmatics:

• Caroline Sporleder — Saarland University, Germany

Spoken Language Processing:

• Katrin Kirchhoff — University of Washington, USA

Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining:

• Bo Pang — Yahoo! Research, USA
• Minlie Huang — Tsinghua University, China

Information Extraction:

• Jenny Finkel — Columbia University, USA
• Radu Florian — IBM Watson Research Center, USA

Machine Translation:

• Phil Blunsom — University of Oxford, UK
• Dekai Wu — Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
• Stefan Riezler — University of Heidelberg, Germany

Phonology Morphology Tagging Chunking and Segmentation:

• Chris Dyer — Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Text Mining and Natural Language Processing Applications:

• Chin-Yew Lin — Microsoft Research Asia, China
• Jian Su — Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

Semantics:

• Luke Zettlemoyer — University of Washington, USA
• Ellen Riloff — University of Utah, USA

Information Retrieval and Question Answering:

• Hinrich Schuetze — University of Stuttgart, Germany

Language Resources:

• Emily M. Bender — University of Washington, USA