Conference Committee


General Conference Chair

  • Mari Ostendorf, University of Washington

Program Committee Chairs

  • Michael Collins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (NLP)
  • Lucy Vanderwende, Microsoft (NLP)
  • Doug Oard, University of Maryland (IR)
  • Shri Narayanan, University of Southern California (Speech)

Local Arrangement Co-Chairs

  • James Martin, University of Colorado at Boulder
  • Martha Palmer, University of Colorado at Boulder

Publicitiy Chairs

  • Matthew Stone (Rutgers)
  • Gokhan Tur (SRI)
  • Diana Inkpen (U Ottawa)

Publications Chairs

  • Christy Doran (MITRE)
  • Eric Ringger (BYU)

Tutorials Chairs

  • Ciprian Chelba (Google)
  • Paul Kantor (Rutgers)
  • Brian Roark (OHSU)

Workshops Chairs

  • Mark Hasegawa-Johnson (UIUC),
  • Nizar Habash (Columbia)

Student Research Workshop Faculty Chairs and Student Co-Chairs

  • Anoop Sarkar (Faculty Chair, Simon Fraser U)
  • Carolyn Rose (Faculty Chair, CMU)
  • Svetlana Stenchikova (Student Co-Chair, Stony Brook University) - Speech
  • Ulrich Germann (Student Co-Chair, University of Toronto) - NLP
  • Chirag Shah (Student Co-Chair, University of North Carolina) - Information Retrieval

Demo Chairs

  • Fred Popowich (Simon Fraser University)
  • Michael Johnston (AT&T)

Sponsorship Chairs

  • Nicolas Nicolov (JD Powers)
  • Hitoshi Isahara (NICT)
  • Philipp Koehn (U Edinburgh)
  • Josef van Genabith (Dublin City U)

Americas Sponsorship Co-Chairs:

  • Srinivas Bangalore
  • Christine Doran