Committee Chairs

COMMITTEE CHAIRS

General Chair:
Jun-ichi Tsujii (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Local Organizing Chair:
Kenji Araki (Hokkaido University, Japan)

Program Co-Chairs:
Erhard Hinrichs (University of Tübingen, Germany)
Dan Roth (University of Illinois, U.S.A.)

Interactive Posters and Demo Chair:
Yuji Matsumoto (NAIST, Japan)

Workshop Co-Chairs:
Lori Levin (CMU, U.S.A.)
Takenobu Tokunaga (TIT, Japan)
Alessandro Lenci (Università di Pisa, Italy)

Tutorials Co-Chairs:
John Carroll (University of Sussex, U.K.)
Keh-Jiann Chen(Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Lauri Karttunen (PARC, U.S.A.)

Student Workshop Co-Chairs:
Jahna C Otterbacher (Ph.D student of University of Michigan, U.S.A.)
Kotaro Funakoshi (Ph.D. student of Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Sandra Kübler (Ph.D student of University of Tübingen, Germany)

Student Workshop Faculty Chair:
Chris Brew (faculty advisor, The Ohio State University, U.S.A.)

Financial Committee Chair:
Hiromu Hayashi (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan)

Exhibition Co-Chairs:
Hitoshi Iida (Tokyo University of Technology, Japan)
Key-Sun Choi (KAIST, Korea)

Publications Co-Chairs:
David Yarowsky (Johns Hopkins University, U.S.A.)
Sadao Kurohashi (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Publicity Chair:
Hitoshi Isahara (CRL, Japan)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Co-Chairs of the PC

Erhard Hinrichs (University of Tübingen, Germany)

Dan Roth (University of Illinois, U.S.A.)

Area Chairs

Discourse and Dialogue:
Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)

Computational Psycholinguistics; Lexical Semantics and Ontologies for NLP:
Paola Merlo (University of Geneva, Switzerland)

Syntax, Semantics, Grammars, Morphology and Phonology:
Anette Frank (DFKI, Germany)

Speech, Language Modeling, Stat. Methods:
Chris Manning (Stanford, U.S.A.)

NL Applications:
Koiti Hasida (Cyber Assist Research Center, Japan)
Ming Zhou (Microsoft, China)

MT and Multilinguality:
Kevin Knight (Information Sciences Institute, USC, U.S.A.)

Word Segmentation, Shallow Parsing, Tagging and Chunking:
Thorsten Brants (Google Inc., U.S.A.)

Generation and Parsing:
Gertjan van Noord (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)

Machine Learning for NL:
Raymond J. Mooney (University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A.)

Information Extraction/Information Retrieval:
Hwee Tou Ng (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Language Resources:
Hae-Chang Rim (Korea University, Korea)

FINANCIAL COMMITTEE

Financial Committee Chair

Hiromu Hayashi (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.)

Financial Committee

Makoto Nagao (Kyoto University)

Hozumi Tanaka (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Hiroshi Nakagawa (The University of Tokyo)

Akira Shimazu (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

Hitoshi Iida (Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.)

Kunio Matsui (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.)

Akitoshi Okumura (NEC Laboratories)

PUBLICITY COMMITTEE

Publicity Committee Chair

Hitoshi Isahara *

Publicity Committee

Masaki Murata *

Eiko Yamamoto *

Koichiro Nakamoto *

Ikuyo Morimoto *

Masao Utiyama *

* Communication Research Laboratory

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Local Organization Chair

Kenji Araki (Hokkaido University)

Local Arrangement Committee

Jun-ichi Abe (Hokkaido University)

Jun Adachi (National Institute of Informatics)

Hiroshi Echizenya (Hokkai-Gakuen University)

Koiti Hashida (Cyber Assist Research Center)

Makoto Hiroshige (Hokkaido University)

Hitoshi Iida (Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.)

Hitoshi Isahara (Communications Research Laboratory)

Shuichi Itahashi (University of Tsukuba)

Genichiro Kikui (ATR-SLT)

Sadao Kurohashi (The University of Tokyo)

Kunio Matsui (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.)

Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)

Yoshio Momouchi (Hokkai-Gakuen University)

Masaki Murata (Communications Research Laboratory)

Masaaki Nagata (NTT Cyber Space Laboratories)

Hiroshi Nakagawa (The University of Tokyo)

Akitoshi Okumura (NEC Laboratories)

Satoshi Sato (Kyoto University)

Koichi Sayama (Otaru University of Commerce)

Akira Shimazu (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

Koji Tochinai (Hokkaido University)

Takenobu Tokunaga (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Kenji Yoshimura (Fukuoka University)