Conference Organizers

General Chair
Raymond J. Mooney The University of Texas at Austin
Program Chairs
Chris Brew The Ohio State University
Lee-Feng Chien Academia Sinica
Katrin Kirchhoff University of Washington
Area Chairs
Ricardo Baeza-Yates University of Chile
Regina Barzilay Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jennifer Chu-Carroll IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Pascale Fung Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Timothy Hazen Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rebecca Hwa University of Pittsburgh
Frank Keller University of Edinburgh
Elizabeth D. Liddy University of Syracuse
Dan Melamed New York University
Helen Meng Chinese University of Hong Kong
Mark-Jan Nederhof University of Groningen
Hwee Tou Ng National University of Singapore
Dan Roth University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
Murat Saraclar AT&T Labs - Research
Simone Teufel University of Cambridge
Wayne Ward University of Colorado
Janyce Wiebe University of Pittsburgh
Cheng Xiang Zhai University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
Ming Zhou Microsoft Research Asia
Local Arrangements Chair
Priscilla Rasmussen Assoc. for Computational Linguistics
Publications Chair
Joyce Chai Michigan State University
Publicity Chairs
Srinivas Bangalore AT&T Labs - Research
Zak Shafran Johns Hopkins University
Hsin-Min Wang Academia Sinica
Sponsorship and Exhibits Chairs
Marius Pasca Google
David Elworthy Google
Demonstrations Chairs
Donna Byron The Ohio State University
Anand Venkataraman SRI International
Dell Zhang National University of Singapore
Program Committee
Alex Acero Microsoft Research
Gilles Adda LIMSI/CNRS, France
Lars Ahrenberg Linkoping University
Shlomo Argamon Illinois Institute of Technology
Michiel Bacchiani IBM
Ricardo Baeza-Yates ICREA-UPF & CWR/DCC-Univ. de Chile
Srinivas Bangalore AT&T Labs - Research
Regina Barzilay Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Frederic Bechet LIA, University of Avignon, France
Jerome Bellegarda Apple Computer
Dan Bikel IBM Research
Patrick Blackburn INRIA Lorraine, France
Johan Bos University of Edinburgh
Antal van den Bosch Tilburg University, Netherlands
Herve Bourlard IDIAP Research Institute
Chris Brew The Ohio State University
Ralf Brown Carnegie Mellon University
Bill Byrne The Johns Hopkins University
Donna Byron The Ohio State University
Jamie Callan Carnegie Mellon University
Claire Cardie Cornell University
Rolf Carlson Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Xavier Carreras Perez Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
John Carroll University of Sussex
Joyce Chai Michigan State University
Soumen Chakrabarti IIT Bombay, India
Ciprian Chelba Microsoft Research
Francine Chen Palo Alto Research Center
John Chen Columbia University
Stanley Chen IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
David Chiang University of Maryland
Lee-Feng Chien Academia Sinica
Jennifer Chu-Carroll IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Grace Chung Corporation For National Research Initiatives
Ken Church Microsoft
Stephen Clark Oxford University
Charlie Clarke University of Waterloo
Michael Collins Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ann Copestake University of Cambridge
Max Copperman -
Mark Core ISI, University of Southern California
Stephen Cox University of East Anglia
Krzysztof Czuba IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Walter Daelemans University of Antwerp, Belgium
Ido Dagan Bar Ilan University, Israel
Renato DeMori University of Avignon
Mona Diab Columbia University
Anne Diekema Syracuse University
Barbara DiEugenio University of Illinois, Chicago
Shona Douglas AT&T Labs - Research
John Dowding National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Amit Dubey University of Edinburgh
Susan Dumais Microsoft Research
Michael Elhadad Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Noemie Elhadad Columbia University
Hakan Erdogan Sabanci University
Katrin Erk Saarland University
David Ferrucci IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Radu Florian IBM Research
Eric Fosler-Lussier The Ohio State University
George Foster National Research Council, Canada
Pascale Fung HLTC/HKUST
Sadaoki Furui Tokyo Insitute of Technology
Jianfeng Gao Microsoft Research Asia
Fred Gey University of California, Berkeley
Dan Gildea University of Rochester
Roxana Girju University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
Jade Goldstein U.S. Department of Defense
Julio Gonzalo UNED, Spain
Mark Greenwood University of Sheffield
Greg Grefenstette CEA, France
Ling Guan Ryerson University, Toronto
Curry Guinn University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Nizar Habash Columbia University
Udo Hahn Freiburg University
Thomas Hain University of Sheffield
Dilek Hakkani-Tur AT&T Labs - Research
John Hale Michigan State University
Hans van Halteren Radboud University Nijmegen
Sanda Harabagiu University of Texas, Dallas
Mary Harper Purdue University
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign
T. J. Hazen Massachusetts Institute of Technology
James Henderson Université de Genève
Julia Hirschberg Columbia University
Graeme Hirst University of Toronto, Canada
Julia Hockenmaier University of Pennsylvania
Thomas Hofmann Brown University
Ed Hovy ISI, University of Southern California
David Hull Clairvoyance Corp.
Rebecca Hwa University of Pittsburgh
Rukmini Iyer Nuance Communications
Donghong Ji Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Rong Jin Michigan State University
Michael Johnston AT&T Labs - Research
Pamela Jordan University of Pittsburgh
Min-Yen Kan National University of Singapore
Tatsuya Kawahara Kyoto University
Andy Kehler University of California, San Diego
Frank Keller University of Edinburgh
Stephan Kepser Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany
Katrin Kirchhoff University of Washington
Dan Klein University of California, Berkeley
Kevin Knight ISI, University of Southern California
Philipp Koehn University of Edinburgh
Geert-Jan Kruijff Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany
Jonas Kuhn The University of Texas at Austin
Roland Kuhn NRC Institute for Information Technology
Shankar Kumar Johns Hopkins University
Sadao Kurohashi University of Tokyo, Japan
Mirella Lapata University of Edinburgh, UK
Alon Lavie Carnegie Mellon University
Lin-Shan Lee National Taiwan University
Oliver Lemon Edinburgh University
Anton Leuski University of Southern California
Roger Levy Stanford University
Mingjing Li Microsoft Research Asia
Xin Li University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
Elizabeth D. Liddy Syracuse University
Chin-Yew Lin ISI, University of Southern California
Dekang Lin Google
Ting Liu Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Yang Liu International Computer Science Institute. Berkeley
Karen Livescu Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Xiaofei Lu The Ohio State University
Yajuan Lu Microsoft Research Asia
Lidia Mangu IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Inderjeet Mani Georgetown University
Christopher Manning Stanford University
Daniel Marcu ISI, University of Southern California
Katja Markert University of Leeds, UK
Yuval Marom Monash University
Lluís Màrquez i Villodre Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Yuji Matsumoto Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Andrew McCallum University of Massachusetts
Diana McCarthy University of Sussex, UK
Kathleen McKeown Columbia University
Dan Melamed New York University
Chris Mellish University of Aberdeen
Helen Meng Chinese University of Hong Kong
Rada Mihalcea University of North Texas
Dan Moldovan University of Texas, Dallas
Christof Monz University of Maryland
Bob Moore Microsoft Research
Tatsunori Mori Yokohama National University
Sung Hyon Myaeng Information and Communications University, Korea
Shri Narayanan University of Southern California
Mark-Jan Nederhof University of Groningen
Hermann Ney RWTH Aachen University
Hwee Tou Ng National University of Singapore
Vincent Ng University of Texas at Dallas
Grace Ngai Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Jian-Yun Nie University of Montreal
Cheng Niu Cymfony Corp.
Eric Nyberg Carnegie Mellon University
Doug Oard University of Maryland
Franz Och Google
Kemal Oflazer Sabanci University, Turkey
Els den Os Radboud University Nijmegen
Miles Osborne University of Edinburgh
Douglas O'Shaughnessy INRS-Telecommunications
Martha Palmer University of Pennsylvania
Shimei Pan Columbia University
Patrick Pantel ISI, University of Southern California
Kishore Papineni IBM Research
Cecile Paris CSIRO, Australia
Marius Pasca Google
Bryan Pellom University of Colorado
Gerald Penn University of Toronto, Canada
Fernando Pereira University of Pennsylvania
Michael Picheny IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Joe Picone Mississippi State University
Roberto Pieraccini IBM
Massimo Poesio University of Essex
Fred Popowich Simon Fraser University
John Prager IBM Reserch
Harry Printz Agile TV Corporation
Stephen Pulman Oxford University
Vasin Punyakanok University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
Dragomir Radev University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Bhuvana Ramabhadran IBM
Owen Rambow Columbia University
Jason Rennie Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Philip Resnik University of Maryland
Christian Retoré Université Bordeaux 1, France
Giuseppe Riccardi AT&T Labs - Research
Steve Richardson Microsoft Research
Frank Richter Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany
Stefan Riezler Palo Alto Research Center
German Rigau Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Ellen Riloff University of Utah
Hae-Chang Rim Korea University
Brian Roark Oregon Health and Sciences University
Steve Robertson Microsoft Research
Dan Roth University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
Salim Roukos IBM Research
Alex Rudnicky Carnegie Mellon University
Yoshinori Sagisaka ATR/Waseda University
Mark Sanderson University of Sheffield
Murat Saraclar AT&T Labs - Research
Hinrich Schuetze University of Stuttgart, Germany
Sabine Schulte im Walde Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany
Fabrizio Sebastiani Italian National Council of Research, Italy
Frank Seide Microsoft Research Asia
Stephanie Seneff Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jimi Shanahan Clairvoyance Corp
Libin Shen University of Pennsylvania
Ronnie Smith East Carolina University
Frank Soong Microsoft Research Asia
Karen Sparck Jones University of Cambridge
Richard Sproat University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign
Dave Stallard BBN Technologies
Mark Steedman University of Edinburgh
Volker Steinbiss Accipio Consulting
Amanda Stent Stony Brook University
Suzanne Stevenson University of Toronto
Michael Strube EML Research
Tomek Strzalkowski University at Albany
Keh-Yih Su Behavior Design Corporation
Eiichiro Sumita ATR
Stan Szpakowicz University of Ottawa
Joel Tetreault University of Rochester
Simone Teufel University of Cambridge
Christoph Tillmann IBM Research
Tassos Tombros Queen Mary, University of London
Kristina Toutanova Stanford University
Gokhan Tur AT&T Labs - Research
Takehito Utsuro Kyoto University
Andreas Vlachos Cambridge University
Stephan Vogel Carnegie Mellon University
Ellen Voorhees National Institute of Standards and Technology
Sarel van Vuuren University of Colorado
Chao Wang Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wei Wang University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ye-Yi Wang Microsoft Research
Wayne Ward University of Colorado
Taro Watanabe NTT Communication Science Lab
Andy Way Dublin City University
Bonnie Webber University of Edinburgh
Ralph Weischedel BBN Technologies
Jan Wiebe University of Pittsburgh
Hugh Williams Microsoft Corporation
Florian Wolf University of Cambridge
Dekai Wu Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Xiaoyun Wu Yahoo
Fei Xia IBM Research
Scott Wentau Yih Microsoft Research
Steve Young University of Cambridge
Hugo Zaragoza Microsoft Research, Cambridge
Luke Zettlemoyer Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cheng Xiang Zhai University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
Ming Zhou Microsoft Research Asia
Dav Zimak University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
Local Preparation and Student Volunteer Coordinators
Fred Popowich Simon Fraser University
Anoop Sarkar Simon Fraser University
Webmasters
Yuk Wah Wong The University of Texas at Austin
Razvan Bunescu The University of Texas at Austin
Ruifang Ge The University of Texas at Austin
Rohit Kate The University of Texas at Austin