Prompt:
Mohammad Khosravani, Hajung
Kim, Hyunjong Kim, Jeonghwan Kim, Jiwoo Kim, Seungone Kim, Yongil Kim, Youngbin Kim,
Chaitanya Kirti, Xenia Klinge, Erik K ¨ orner, Ádám Kovács, Vojt ˇ ech Ková ˇ r, Shachi H Kumar, Vivek
Kumar, Gitanjali Kumari, Maddalen López De Lacalle, Jack Lanchantin, Loic De Langhe, Anna
Laskina, Chaeeun Lee, Dongryeol Lee, Kang-Il Lee, Sunkyung Lee, Yongjae Lee, Els Lefever,
Zhihong Lei, Elisa Leonardelli, Hang Li, Jiazhao Li, Junlong Li, Mengyu Li, Minghan Li, Senyu
Li, Shiyang Li, Shuqin Li, Wenyan Li, Xinhang Li, Yan Li, Yichen Li, Yichuan Li, Yunshui Li,
Zekun Li, Zhaoqun Li, Zhuoqun Li, Zitong Li, Zhenwen Liang, Ruotong Liao, Boda Lin, Jiuheng
Lin, Hali Lindsay, Alisa Liu, Andy T. Liu, Hong Liu, Hongyi Liu, Huijun Liu, Mengying Liu,
Zhexiong Liu, Alessandro Locaputo, Roberto López, Sebastian Lopez-Cot, Yuze Lou, Xuantao
Lu, Kamile Lukosiute, Gunnar Lund, Chu Fei Luo, Haoran Luo, Xin Lv, Congbo Ma, Da Ma, An-


Prompt:
Congbo Ma, Da Ma, An-
drew Mackey, Hiren Madhu, Daniele Malitesta, Oscar Ma ˜ nas, Fabienne Marco, Salima Mdhaffar,
Marek Medveˇd, Nikhil Mehta, Di Mei, Althis Mendes, Augusto Mendes, Stefano Menini, Elena
Merdjanovska, Hossein Mohammadi, Samraj Moorjani, Yusuke Mori, Durgesh Nandini, Gaurav
Negi, Hoang Nguyen, Vincent Nguyen, Feng Nie, Anna Nikiforovskaya, Jingcheng Niu, Gibson
Nkhata, Rik Van Noord, Michael Ogezi, Olubusayo Olabisi, Katrina Olsen, Talgat Omarov, An-
dreas Opedal, Junshu Pan, Suehyun Park, Daraksha Parveen, Maya Pavlova, Diogo Pernes, Jan
Pfister, Alejandro Piad-Morffis, Max Ploner, Alexander Podolskiy, Dejan Porjazovski, Pradyot
Prakash, Adrien Pupier, Maarten De Raedt, Pétur Orri Ragnarsson, Sai Krishna Rallabandi, Leo-
nardo Ranaldi, Abhinav Rao, Anton Razzhigaev, Sebastian Reimann, Raphael Reinauer, Franc¸ois
Remy, Jiaqian Ren, Siyu Ren, Akseli Reunamo, Valentin Richard, Ruty Rinott, Elsa Rizk, Giu-


Prompt:
Elsa Rizk, Giu-
lia Rizzi, Sean Robertson, Cristian Rodriguez, Sudipta Singha Roy, Susanna R¨ucker, Elena Sofia
Ruzzetti, Tasnim Kabir Sadik, Joy Sain, Jose Ignacio Abreu Salas, Hossein Salemi, Mufan Sang,
Twisampati Sarkar, Simone Scaboro, Felix Schmidt, Frederik Schmitt, Christopher Schr¨oder, Si-
meon Sch¨uz, Nina Seemann, Vincent Segonne, Yasas Senarath, Ashish Seth, Silvio Severino, Lele
Sha, Stephen Shaffran, Anastassia Shaitarova, Hee Ming Shan, Kai Shen, Xingyu Shen, Shuqian
Sheng, Kaize Shi, Ke Shi, Yuanjun Shi, Yuxuan Shu, Lucas Dos Santos Silva, Harmanpreet Singh,
Pranaydeep Singh, Salam Michael Singh, Iustin Sirbu, Sonish Sivarajkumar, Mohamed Soliman,
xxxi

Chenyang Song, Kunzhe Song, William Soto, Florian Steuber, Manuel Stoeckel, Vit Suchomel,
Bin Sun, Changzhi Sun, Cong Sun, Jingdong Sun, Qiujie Sun, Xiaohui Sun, Xueyao Sun, Shah-
baz Syed, Zhaoxuan Tan, Shaowen Tang, Ziming Tang, Kumar Tanmay, Jingxuan Tu, Sichang Tu,


Prompt:
Jingxuan Tu, Sichang Tu,
Xiao Chi Tu, Mehmet Deniz Turkmen, Sagar Uprety, Hannah Vanderhoeven, Julien Velcin, Elad
Venezian, Radhakrishnan Venkatakrishnan, Ivo Vigan, Fedor Vitiugin, Nikolas Vitsakis, Xiang-
peng Wan, An Wang, Bingyu Wang, Cong Wang, Haoran Wang, Hu Wang, Junlin Wang, Junting
Wang, Ke Wang, Lei Wang, Lingzhi Wang, Qianli Wang, Ruofan Wang, Shih-Heng Wang, Teng
Wang, Weizhi Wang, Xinyou Wang, Yigong Wang, Yiming Wang, Yueguan Wang, Zihao Wang,
Haitian Wei, Martyna Wiacek, Ronald Wilson, Moritz Wolf, Haibin Wu, Jay Zhangjie Wu, Jian
Wu, Yexin Wu, Yuan-Kuei Wu, Siyuan Xiang, Yang Xiao, Yao Xiao, Zhouhang Xie, Benfeng Xu,
Chenwei Xu, Kaishuai Xu, Yuzhuang Xu, Zhichao Xu, Zhiyang Xu, Bo Xue, Siyuan Xue, Xiaojun
Xue, Baosong Yang, Kaiqi Yang, Shiping Yang, Yanjie Yang, Yinguan Yang, Jiarui Yao, Bingyang
Ye, Yongjing Yin, Yuwei Yin, Tarik Yousef, Guoxin Yu, Nan Yu, Tiezheng Yu, Zhengqing Yuan,


Prompt:
Zhengqing Yuan,
Klim Zaporojets, Urchade Zaratiana, Omnia Zayed, Weihao Zeng, Ge Zhang, Hanlei Zhang, Jin-
gyu Zhang, Le Zhang, Mian Zhang, Qi Zhang, Ruike Zhang, Songyang Zhang, Tao Zhang, Weijia
Zhang, Yidan Zhang, Yunan Zhang, Zhiling Zhang, Ziheng Zhang, Ziqiing Zhang, Ziqing Zhang,
Honghong Zhao, Jiahao Zhao, Jinman Zhao, Siyang Zhao, Wei Zhao, Xingmeng Zhao, Yingxiu
Zhao, Yu Zhao, Gui Zhen, Kangjie Zhen, Kai Zheng, Kaiwen Zhou, Terry Zhou, Zhengping Zhou,
Zhijie Zhou, Ming Zhu, Zhihong Zhu, Haojie Zhuang, Anni Zou


Prompt:
Zhengqing Yuan,
Klim Zaporojets, Urchade Zaratiana, Omnia Zayed, Weihao Zeng, Ge Zhang, Hanlei Zhang, Jin-
gyu Zhang, Le Zhang, Mian Zhang, Qi Zhang, Ruike Zhang, Songyang Zhang, Tao Zhang, Weijia
Zhang, Yidan Zhang, Yunan Zhang, Zhiling Zhang, Ziheng Zhang, Ziqiing Zhang, Ziqing Zhang,
Honghong Zhao, Jiahao Zhao, Jinman Zhao, Siyang Zhao, Wei Zhao, Xingmeng Zhao, Yingxiu
Zhao, Yu Zhao, Gui Zhen, Kangjie Zhen, Kai Zheng, Kaiwen Zhou, Terry Zhou, Zhengping Zhou,
Zhijie Zhou, Ming Zhu, Zhihong Zhu, Haojie Zhuang, Anni Zou
xxxii


Prompt:
ANLP
2000-PREFACE
131
papers
were
submitted
to
ANLP-2000.
46
were
accepted
for
presentation
at
the
conference.
Papers
came
from
24
countries:
fifty
eight
from
the
United
States
of
America,
eleven
each
from
Germany
and
United
Kingdom,
nine
from
Canada,
eight
from
Japan,
four
each
from
Italy
and
Spain,
three
each
from
France,
Korea
and
Switzerland,
two
each
from
Australia,
China,
The
Netherlands
and
Sweden
and
one
each
from
Czech
Republic,
Denmark,
Finland,
Greece,
India,
Hong
Kong,
Malaysia,
Norway,
Russia
and
Taiwan.
40
papers
were
submitted
from
industry.
85
papers
came
from
academia.
2 papers
were
submitted
from
government
organizations
and
four
submissions
were
combined.
The
reviewing
process
was
supported
by
a web-based
reviewer
interface
developed
by
Elisha
Kane
at
New
Mexico
State
University's
Computing
Research
Lab.
Linda
Fresques
of
CRL
coordinated
the
refereeing
process.
I would
like
to
express
my
gratitude
to
and
appreciation
of
the
Program
Committee
members
responsible


Prompt:
members
responsible
for
the
six
areas:
Lynn
Carlson,
Tools
and
Resources
for
Developing
NLP
Systems
Subcommittee
Eduard
Hovy,
Integrated
NLP
Systems
Subcommittee
Richard
Kittredge,
Multilingual
Text
Processing
Subcommittee
Ray
Perrault,
Spoken
Language
Systems
Subcommittee
Oliviero
Stock,
Monolingual
Text
Processing
Systems
Subcommittee
John
White,
Evaluation
Subcommittee
The
following
colleagues
did
Doug
Appelt
Fabio
Ciravegna
Robert
Dale
Michael
Elhadad
Ralph
G-rishman
Lynette
Hirschman
Yuval
Krymolowski
Inderjeet
Mani
Zvi
Marx
Martha
Palmer
Harold
Somers
Toshiyuki
Takezawa
Takehito
Utsuro
Dekai
Wu
the
bulk
of
the
reviewing:
Igor
Boguslavsky
Jim
Cowie
John
Dowding
Jim
Glass
Jan
Haji~
Pierre
IsabeIIe
Alberto
Lavelli
Daniel
Marcu
David
McDonald
Owen
Rainbow
Tomek
Strzalkowski
Kathryn
B.
Taylor
Pick
Vossen
R6mi
Zajac
David
Carter
Ido
Dagan
Andreas
Eiscle
Oren
Glikman
Donna
Harman
Tanya
Korelsky
Chin-Yew
Lin
Paul
Martin
Teruko
Mitamura
Norbert
Reithinger
Beth
Sundheim
Hans
Uszkoreit


Prompt:
Beth
Sundheim
Hans
Uszkoreit
Ralph
Weischedel
We
believe
that
the
quality
of
the
papers
selected
is
rather
high
and
hope
that
the
conference
will
be
a success.
Sergei
Nirenburg
Chair,
Program
Committee
ANLP-2000


Prompt:
Beth
Sundheim
Hans
Uszkoreit
Ralph
Weischedel
We
believe
that
the
quality
of
the
papers
selected
is
rather
high
and
hope
that
the
conference
will
be
a success.
Sergei
Nirenburg
Chair,
Program
Committee
ANLP-2000
ANLPi


Prompt:
Conference Organizers
General Chair:
Robert C. Moore - Microsoft Research (Redmond)
Local Arrangements Committee:
Satoshi Sekine, NYU (chair)
Ralph Grishman, NYU (co-chair)
Koji Murakami, NYU (webmaster)
David Westbrook, NYU (associate webmaster)
Adam Meyers, NYU (volunteer coordinator)
Program Committee Chairs:
Jeff Bilmes, University of Washington
Jennifer Chu-Carroll, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Mark Sanderson, University of Shefﬁeld
ACL ofﬁce:
Priscilla Rasmussen
Demonstration Chairs:
Alex Rudnicky, Carnegie Mellon University
John Dowding, University of California, Santa Cruz
Natasa Milic-Frayling, Microsoft Research (Cambridge)
Publications Chairs:
Sanjeev Khudanpur, Johns Hopkins University
Brian Roark, OGI-Oregon Health & Science University
Publicity Chairs:
Dan Gildea, University of Rochester
Ciprian Chelba, Microsoft Research (Redmond)
Eric Brown, IBM Research (Watson)
Sponsorship and Exhibits Chairs:
Ed Hovy, USC-ISI
Patrick Pantel, USC-ISI
Tutorial Chairs:


Prompt:
Tutorial Chairs:
Chris Manning, Stanford University
Doug Oard, University of Maryland
Jim Glass, MIT
v

Workshop Chairs:
Lucy Vanderwende, Microsoft Research (Redmond)
Roberto Pieraccini, Tell-Eureka
Liz Liddy, Syracuse University
Doctoral Consortium Chairs:
Matt Huenerfauth, University of Pennsylvania
Bo Pang, Cornell University
Mitch Marcus, University of Pennsylvania (Faculty advisor)
Human Language Technology Advisory Board:
Donna Harman, NIST (2005-06)
Mary Harper, University of Maryland (2005-06)
Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University (2005)
Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto (2005-06)
Sanjeev Khudanpur, Johns Hopkins University (2005-06)
Tatiana Korelsky, NSF (2006)
Raymond Mooney, University of Texas at Austin (2005-06)
Robert Moore, Microsoft Research (2005-06)
Heather McCallum-Bayliss, ARDA (2006)
Joseph Olive, DARPA (2006)
John Prange, ARDA (2005)
Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan (2005)
Owen Rambow, Columbia University (2006)
Ellen Riloff, University of Utah (2005)


Prompt:
University of Utah (2005)
Charles Wayne, DARPA (2005)
Senior Program Committee Members:
Johan Bos, University of Roma “La Sapienza” Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan
Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University
Owen Rambow, CCLS, Columbia University
Joyce Chai, Michigan State University
Steve Renals, University of Edinburgh
Jason Eisner, Johns Hopkins University
Stefan Riezler, Google
Mark Gales, Cambridge University
Rohini Srihari, SUNY Buffalo
Fredric Gey, University of California Berkeley Amanda Stent, SUNY Stony Brook
Roxana Girju, UIUC
Michael Strube, EML Research
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, UIUC
Christoph Tillmann, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University
Peter Turney, National Research Council Canada
Alon Lavie, Carnegie Mellon University
Ellen Voorhees, NIST
Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia
Ralph Weischedel, BBN Technologies
Mehryar Mohri, Courant Institute/Google
Fei Xia, University of Washington
Marius Pasca, Google
ChengXiang Zhai, UIUC


Prompt:
ChengXiang Zhai, UIUC
Gerald Penn, University of Toronto
Ming Zhou, Microsoft Research Asia
vi

Program Committee Members:
Steven Abney, U. of Michigan
Alex Acero, Microsoft Research
Cyril Allauzen, Courant Institute
Yaser Al-Onaizan, IBM
Abeer Alwan, UCLA
Elisabeth Andre, U. Augsburg
Chinatsu Aone, SRA
Doug Appelt, SRI International
Michiel Bacchiani, Google Inc
Tim Baldwin, U. of Melbourne
Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Labs – Research
Regina Barzilay, MIT CSAIL
John Bateman, U. Bremen
Jerome Bellegarda, Apple Computer, Inc.
Anja Belz, ITRI, U. of Brighton
Pushpak Bhattacharya, Indian Inst. of Technology
Timothy Bickmore, Northeastern U.
Patrick Blackburn, INRIA Lorraine
Eric Brown, IBM
Ralf Brown, Carnegie Mellon U.
John Burger, MITRE
Bill Byrne, U. of Cambridge
Donna Byron, Ohio State U.
Charles Callaway, U. of Edinburgh
Chris Callison-Burch, U. of Edinburgh
Giuseppe Carenini, U. of British Columbia
Rolf Carlson, KTH
Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, San Francisco State U.
Ciprian Chelba, Google


Prompt:
Ciprian Chelba, Google
John Chen, Janya Inc.
Stanley Chen, IBM
David Chiang, USC-ISI
Lee-Feng Chien, Academia Sinica
Tat-Seng Chua, National U. of Singapore
Grace Chung, MIT
Alexander Clark, Royal Holloway U. of London
Stephen Clark, Oxford U.
Michael Collins, MIT CSAIL
Tom Cornell, Janya Inc.
Corinna Cortes, Google Research
Cassandre Creswell, Janya Inc.
Mathias Creutz, Helsinki U. of Technology
Dick Crouch, PARC
Ido Dagan, Bar Ilan U.
Tiphaine Dalmas, U. of Edinburgh
Mary Dalrymple, U. of Oxford
Hoa Dang, NIST
Franciska de Jong, U. of Twente
Li Deng, Microsoft
Barbara di Eugenio, U. of Illinois at Chicago
Mona Diab, CCLS, Columbia U.
Bill Dolan, Microsoft Research
Bonnie Dorr, U. of Maryland
Markus Egg, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Gunes Erkan, U. of Michigan
Oren Etzioni, U. of Washington
Patrick Fan, Virginia Tech
David Farwell, New Mexico State U.
Eric Fosler-Lussier, Ohio State U.
Anette Frank, DFKI
Robert Frank, Johns Hopkins U.
Bob Frederking, Carnegie Mellon U.


Prompt:
Carnegie Mellon U.
Maria Fuentes, U. Polit`ecnica de Catalunya
Junichi Fukumoto, Ritsumeikan U.
Rob Gaizauskas, U. of Shefﬁeld
Michel Galley, Columbia U.
Jianfeng Gao, Microsoft Research Asia
Claire Gardent, CNRS/LORIA
Daniel Gildea, U. of Rochester
John Goldsmith, U. of Chicago
Sharon Goldwater, Brown U.
Yoshi Gotoh, U. of Shefﬁeld
Mark Greenwood, U. of Shefﬁeld
Ralph Grishman, New York U.
Joakim Gustafson, TeliaSonera
Nizar Habash, CCLS, Columbia U.
Thomas Hain, U. of Shefﬁeld
Keith Hall, Johns Hopkins U.
Susan Haller, SUNY Potsdam
Sanda Harabagiu, U. of Texas at Dallas
Mary Harper, Purdue U.
Anthony Hartley, U. of Leeds
Marti Hearst, U. of California, Berkeley
Peter Heeman, Oregon Graduate Institute
James Henderson, U. of Edinburgh
John Henderson, The MITRE Corporation
Ulf Hermjakob, USC-ISI
Djoerd Hiemstra, U. of Twente
vii

Program Committee Members (continued):
Keikichi Hirose, U. of Tokyo
Graeme Hirst, U. of Toronto
Jerry Hobbs, USC-ISI
Julia Hockenmaier, U. of Pennsylvania


Prompt:
U. of Pennsylvania
Kristy Hollingshead, Oregon Health & Science U.
Chiori Hori, CMU
Fei Huang, IBM
Rebecca Hwa, U. of Pittsburgh
Diana Inkpen, U. of Ottawa
Abraham Ittycheriah, IBM
Martin Jansche, CCLS, Columbia U.
Rong Jin, Michigan State U.
Mark Johnson, Brown U.
Michael Johnston, AT&T Labs - Research
Hideo Joho, U. of Glasgow
Kristiina Jokinen, U. of Helsinki
Gareth Jones, Dublin City U.
Joemon Jose, U. of Glasgow
Nanda Kambhatla, IBM
Min Yen Kan, National U. of Singapore
Frank Keller, U. of Edinburgh
Kazuaki Kishida, Surugadi U.
Kevin Knight, USC-ISI
Kate Knill, Toshiba Research Europe Ltd
Philipp Koehn, U. of Edinburgh
Alexander Koller, U. of the Saarland
Wessel Kraaij, TNO
Emiel Krahmer, Tilburg U.
Jonas Kuhn, Saarland U., Saarbr¨ucken
Shankar Kumar, Google
KL Kwok, City U. of New York
Philippe Langlais, U. de Montr´eal
Mirella Lapata, U. of Edinburgh
Alex Lascarides, U. of Edinburgh
Victor Lavrenko, U. of Massachusetts at Amherst
Lillian Lee, Cornell U.
Esther Levin, CCNY/CUNY


Prompt:
Esther Levin, CCNY/CUNY
Lori Levin, Carnegie Mellon U.
Gina Levow, U. of Chicago
Elizabeth Liddy, Syracuse U.
Jimmy Lin, U. of Maryland
Chin-Yew Lin, Microsoft Research Asia
Ken Litkowski, CL Research
Diane Litman, U. of Pittsburgh
Bing Liu, U. of Illinois at Chicago
Karen Livescu, MIT
Andrej Ljolje, AT&T Labs - Research
Bente Maegaard, U. of Copenhagen
Bernardo Magnini, ITC-irst
Steve Maiorano, ATP
Thomas Mandl, U. Hildesheim
Inderjeet Mani, MITRE
Gideon Mann, U. of Massachusetts at Amherst
Daniel Marcu, USC-ISI
Katja Markert, Leeds U.
Yuji Matsumoto, Nara Inst. of Science and Tech.
James Mayﬁeld, JHU/APL
Andrew McCallum, U. of Massachusetts at Amherst
Michael McCord, IBM
Iain McCowan, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
Ryan McDonald, U. of Pennsylvania
Dan Melamed, New York U.
Helen Meng, Chinese U. of Hong Kong
Rada Mihalcea, U. of North Texas
Teruko Mitamura, Carnegie Mellon U.
Yusuke Miyao, U. of Tokyo
Marie-France Moens, Katholieke U. Leuven
Dan Moldovan, U. of Texas at Dallas


Prompt:
U. of Texas at Dallas
Christof Monz, Queen Mary, U. of London
Isabelle Moulinier, Thompson Legal
Yukiko Nakano, Tokyo U. of Agriculture & Tech.
Shri Narayanan, USC
Mark-Jan Nederhof, Max Planck Inst. of Psych..
Hwee Tou Ng, National U. of Singapore
Vincent Ng, U. of Texas at Dallas
Jian-Yun Nie, U. of Montr´eal
Cheng Niu, Microsoft Research Asia
Tadashi Nomoto, National Inst. of Japanese Lit.
Franz Och, Google
Mohamed Omar, IBM
Mari Ostendorf, U. of Washington
Iadh Ounis, U. of Glasgow
Martha Palmer, U. of Colorado
Kishore Papineni, IBM
Rebecca Passonneau, CCLS, Columbia U.
Ted Pedersen, U. of Minnesota, Duluth
Fernando Pereira, U. of Pennsylvania
Jose Perez-Carballo, California State U., LA
viii

Program Committee Members (continued):
Carol Peters, Italian National Research Council
Paul Piwek, The Open U.
Richard Power, ITRI, U. of Brighton
Sameer Pradhan, BBN Technologies
John Prager, IBM
Kishore Prallahad, Carnegie Mellon U.
Rashmi Prasad, U. of Pennsylvania
Mark Przybocki, NIST


Prompt:
Mark Przybocki, NIST
Vasin Punyakanok, UIUC
Matthew Purver, CSLI, Stanford U.
Bhuvana Ramabhadran, IBM
Lance Ramshaw, BBN Technologies
Adwait Ratnaparkhi, Microsoft Research
Deepak Ravichandran, Google
Ehud Reiter, U. of Aberdeen
Norbert Reithinger, DFKI
Christian Retore’, U. Bordeaux 1
Steve Richardson, Microsoft Research
Michael Riley, Google, Inc
Ellen Riloff, U. of Utah
Alex Rudnicky, Carnegie Mellon U.
Gregory Sanders, NIST
Murat Sarac¸lar, Bo˘gazic¸i U.
Anoop Sarkar, Simon Fraser U.
Michael Schiehlen, U. of Stuttgart
Frank Schilder, Thomson Legal & Regulatory
Falk Scholer, RMIT U.
Sabine Schulte, Saarlandes U.
Frank Seide, Microsoft Research Asia
Stephanie Seneff, MIT CSAIL
Ben Shahshahani, Yahoo
Koichi Shinoda, Tokyo Intstitute of Technology
Candy Sidner, Mitsubishi Electric Research
Khalil Sima’an, U. van Amsterdam
Frank Soong, Microsoft Research Asia
Richard Sproat, UIUC
Mark Steedman, U. of Edinburgh
Mark Stevenson, U. of Shefﬁeld
Suzanne Stevenson, U. of Toronto


Prompt:
U. of Toronto
Nicola Stokes, U. of Melbourne
Matthew Stone, Rutgers U.
Kristina Streignitz, Northwestern U.
Tomek Strzalkowski, SUNY Albany
Keh-Yih Su, Behavior Design Corporation
Eiichiro Sumita, ATR
Marc Swerts, Tilburg U.
Stan Szpakowicz, U. of Ottawa
Egidio Terra, Amazon.com
Joel Tetreault, U. of Pittsburgh, LRDC
Kentaro Torisawa, Japan Advanced Inst. of Sci&Tech.
David Traum, USC/Inst. of Creative Tech.
Harald Trost, Medical U. of Vienna
Josef van Genabith, Dublin City U.
Gertjan van Noord, U. of Groningen
Lucy Vanderwende, Microsoft Research
Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie, INRIA
Phil Vines, Royal Melbourne Inst. of Tech.
Taro Watanabe, NTT Communication Science Lab
Andy Way, Dublin City U.
Bonnie Webber, U. of Edinburgh
Ji-Rong Wen, Microsoft Research Asia
Janyce Wiebe, U. of Pittsburgh
Yoad Winter, Technion, Haifa
Christa Womser-Hacker, U. Hildesheim
Dekai Wu, HKUST
Roman Yangarber, U. of Helsinki
Steve Young, U. of Cambridge
Deniz Yuret, Koc U.
Hugo Zaragoza, Yahoo! Research


Prompt:
Yahoo! Research
Dmitry Zelenko, SRA
Richard Zens, RWTH Aachen U.
Yi Zhang, U. of California, Santa Cruz
Qifeng Zhu, Texas Instruments
Additional Reviewers:
Oana Frunza, U. of Ottawa
Marcus Sammer, U. of Washington
Michael Gamon, Microsoft Research
Marina Sokolova, U. de Montr ´ eal
Preslav Nakov, U. of Califonia, Berkeley
Ana-Maria Popescu, U. of Washington
Carlos Prolo, Pontif´ıcia U. Cat´olica do Rio Grande do Sul


Prompt:
Yahoo! Research
Dmitry Zelenko, SRA
Richard Zens, RWTH Aachen U.
Yi Zhang, U. of California, Santa Cruz
Qifeng Zhu, Texas Instruments
Additional Reviewers:
Oana Frunza, U. of Ottawa
Marcus Sammer, U. of Washington
Michael Gamon, Microsoft Research
Marina Sokolova, U. de Montr ´ eal
Preslav Nakov, U. of Califonia, Berkeley
Ana-Maria Popescu, U. of Washington
Carlos Prolo, Pontif´ıcia U. Cat´olica do Rio Grande do Sul
ix


Prompt:
Conference Organizers
General Chair:
Candace Sidner, BAE Systems Inc-AIT
Local Arrangements:
James Allen, University of Rochester
Daniel Gildea, University of Rochester
Lenhart Schubert, University of Rochester
Program Committee Chairs:
Tanja Schultz, Carnegie Mellon University
Matthew Stone, Rutgers University
ChengXiang Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Publicity Chairs:
Dilek Hakkani-T¨ur, ICSI
Miles Osbourne, Edinburgh University
Tomek Strzalkowski, SUNY Albany
Workshops and Tutorials Chairs:
James Allan, University of Massachusetts
Marti Hearst, UC Berkeley
Gina Levow, University of Chicago
Demonstrations Chairs:
Bob Carpenter, Alias I
Amanda Stent, SUNY Stony Brook
Jason Williams, AT&T
Exhibits Chair:
Tim Paek, Microsoft
Sponsorship Chair:
David Day, MITRE
Publications:
Yang Liu, UT Dallas
Ronnie Smith, East Carolina University
Ellen Voorhees, NIST
ix

Doctoral Consortium:
Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University (Faculty Advisor)


Prompt:
Advisor)
Jackson Liscombe, Columbia University
Phil Michalak, University of Rochester
Treasurer:
Priscilla Rasmussen, ACL
NAACL Chair:
Owen Rambow, Columbia University
Senior Program Members:
Emily Bender, University of Washington
Alan Black, Carnegie Mellon University
Andrei Broder, Yahoo! Inc.
Donna Byron, Ohio State University
Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University
Li Deng, Microsoft Research
Oren Etzioni, University of Washington
Jianfeng Gao, Microsoft Research
Nizar Habash, Columbia University
Sanda Harabagiu, University of Texas, Dallas
Julia Hockenmaier, University of Pennsylvania
Rebecca Hwa, University of Pittsburgh
Dietrich Klakow, Saarland University, Germany
Dan Klein, University of California, Berkeley
Philipp Koehn, University of Edinburgh
Alexander Koller, Columbia University
Liz Liddy, Syracuse University
Dekang Lin, Google Inc.
Ryan McDonald, Google Inc.
Ani Nenkova, Stanford University
Jian-yun Nie, University of Montreal


Prompt:
University of Montreal
Patrick Pantel, University of Southern California
John Prager, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Philip Resnik, University of Maryland, College Park
Eric Ringger, Brigham Young University
Brian Roark, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology
Suzanne Stevenson, University of Toronto
David Traum, University of Southern California
Gokhan Tur, SRI International
Michael White, Ohio State University
x

Program Committee Members:
Jeff Adams
Eugene Agichtein
Gregory Aist
Yaser Al-Onaizan
Rie Ando
Galen Andrew
Doug Arnold
Necip Fazil Ayan
Saliha Azzam
Michiel Bacchiani
Jason Baldridge
Timothy Baldwin
Srinivas Bangalore
Michele Banko
Regina Barzilay
Frederic Bechet
Linda Bell
Robert Belvin
Paul Bennett
Shane Bergsma
Nicola Bertoldi
Daniel Bikel
John Blitzer
Dan Bohus
Gary Borchardt
Johan Bos
Chris Brew
Eric Brown
Ralf Brown
Sabine Buchholz
Miriam Butt
Aoife Cahill
Ellen Campana
Yunbo Cao
Jaime Carbonell
Violetta Cavalli-Sforza
Joyce Chai
Jason Chang


Prompt:
Joyce Chai
Jason Chang
Eugene Charniak
Ciprian Chelba
Hsin-Hsi Chen
Jiangping Chen
Colin Cherry
David Chiang
Timothy Chklovski
Ken Church
Alexander Clark
Robert Clark
Stephen Clark
William Cohen
Trevor Cohn
Michael Collins
Alistair Conkie
Paul Cook
Ann Copestake
Mark Core
Richard Crouch
Berthold Crysmann
Silviu-Petru Cucerzan
Aron Culotta
James Curran
Robert Dale
Hoa Dang
Hal Daume
Renato De Mori
Nikhil Dinesh
Christy Doran
John Dowding
Amit Dubey
Kevin Duh
Jakob Elming
Katrin Erk
David Farwell
Afsaneh Fazly
Junlan Feng
Dan Flickinger
Martin Forst
Mary Ellen Foster
George Foster
Alexander Fraser
Robert Frederking
Andrew Freeman
Dayne Freitag
Mark Fuhs
Pascale Fung
Sadaoki Furui
Michel Galley
Kallirroi Georgila
Roxana Girju
Gregory Grefenstette
Michelle Gregory
Teg Grenager
Stephanie Haas
Dilek Hakkani-Tur
Keith Hall
Jeff Hancock
Donna Harman
Mary Harper
Anthony Hartley
Xiaodong He
James Henderson
Andrew Hickl
Graeme Hirst
Liang Huang
Chu-Ren Huang
Diana Inkpen
Kentaro Inui


Prompt:
Diana Inkpen
Kentaro Inui
Pierre Isabelle
Martin Jansche
Mark Johnson
Kristiina Jokinen
Gareth Jones
Rosie Jones
Joemon Jose
Aravind Joshi
Stan Jou
Jeremy Kahn
Nanda Kambhatla
Min Yen Kan
Lauri Karttunen
Boris Katz
John Kelleher
Frank Keller
Sanjeev Khudanpur
Simon King
Tracy King
xi

Program Committee Members (continued):
Katrin Kirchoff
Esther Klabbers
Alexandre Klementiev
Kevin Knight
Greg Kondrak
Valia Kordoni
Anna Korhonen
Sandra Kuebler
Jonas Kuhn
Shankar Kumar
Mikko Kurimo
KL Kwok
Namhee Kwon
Mounia Lalmas
Ian Lane
Philippe Langlaise
Guy Lapalme
Mirella Lapata
Ray Larson
Staffan Larsson
Alex Lascarides
Alon Lavie
Matthew Lease
Gary Lee
Jong-Hyeok Lee
Lillian Lee
Oliver Lemon
Gina Levow
Roger Levy
Hang Li
Xiaolong Li
Chin-Yew Lin
Jimmy Lin
Yang Liu
Deryle Lonsdale
Adam Lopez
Jie Lu
Xiaoqiang Luo
Dick Lyon
Bill MacCartney
Elliott Macklovitch
Bente Maegaard
Bernardo Magnini
Rob Malouf
Gideon Mann
Chris Manning
Daniel Marcu
Evgeny Matusov
Nicolas Maudet
Andrew McCallum


Prompt:
Andrew McCallum
Diana McCarthy
Kathleen McKeown
Paul McNamee
Dan Melamed
Arul Menezes
Donald Metzler
Rada Mihalcea
Teruko Mitamura
Yusuke Miyao
Mehryar Mohri
Dan Moldovan
Christof Monz
Alessandro Moschitti
Srini Narayanan
Mark-Jan Nederhof
Hwee Tou Ng
Vincent Ng
Sergei Nirenburg
Joakim Nivre
Stephan Oepen
Iadh Ounis
Martha Palmer
Bo Pang
Rebecca Passoneau
Fuchun Peng
Gerald Penn
Marco Pennacchiotti
Paul Piwek
Sameer Pradhan
John Prange
Partha Pratim Talukdar
Stephen Pulman
Chris Quirk
Dragomir Radev
Owen Rambow
Deepak Ravichandran
Florence Reeder
David Reitter
Giuseppe Riccardi
Stephen Richardson
Korin Richmond
Sebastian Riedel
Ellen Riloff
Jin Rong
Salim Roukos
Fatiha Sadat
Kenji Sagae
Mark Sanderson
Murat Saraclar
Ruhi Sarikaya
Thomas Schaaf
Charles Schafer
Helmut Schmid
Hinrich Schuetze
Sabine Schulte im Walde
Satoshi Sekine
Zak Shafran
James Shaw
Libin Shen
Chilin Shih
Luo Si
Malcolm Slaney
Noah Smith
Ronnie Smith
David Smith
Rion Snow
Stephen Soderland
Thamar Solorio


Prompt:
Thamar Solorio
Harold Somers
Dawei Song
Radu Soricut
Richard Sproat
Mark Steedman
Amanda Stent
Laura Stoia
Nicola Stokes
Michael Strube
Tomek Strzalkowski
Jian Su
Mihai Surdeanu
Charles Sutton
Ann Syrdal
xii

Program Committee Members (continued):
Joel Tetreault
Simone Teufel
Stefan Thater
Ye Tian
Christoph Tillmann
Tomoki Toda
Takenobu Tokunaga
Elaine Toms
Arthur Toth
Kristina Toutanova
Peter Turney
Andrew Turpin
Nicola Uefﬁng
Kees Van Deemter
Lucy Vanderwende
Sebastian Varges
Renata Vieira
David Vilar
Stephan Vogel
Ellen Voorhees
Ye-Yi Wang
Karen Ward
Taro Watanabe
Andy Way
Bonnie Webber
Eric Wehrli
Ben Wellington
Fuliang Weng
Martin Westphal
Ed Whittaker
Janyce Wiebe
Jason Williams
Shuly Wintner
Dekai Wu
Fei Xia
David Yarowsky
Alex Yates
Chen Yu
Hugo Zaragoza
Daniel Zeman
Richard Zens
Jian Zhang
Joy Zhang
Yi Zhang
Bing Zhao
Liang Zhou
Ming Zhou
Imed Zitouni


Prompt:
Thamar Solorio
Harold Somers
Dawei Song
Radu Soricut
Richard Sproat
Mark Steedman
Amanda Stent
Laura Stoia
Nicola Stokes
Michael Strube
Tomek Strzalkowski
Jian Su
Mihai Surdeanu
Charles Sutton
Ann Syrdal
xii

Program Committee Members (continued):
Joel Tetreault
Simone Teufel
Stefan Thater
Ye Tian
Christoph Tillmann
Tomoki Toda
Takenobu Tokunaga
Elaine Toms
Arthur Toth
Kristina Toutanova
Peter Turney
Andrew Turpin
Nicola Uefﬁng
Kees Van Deemter
Lucy Vanderwende
Sebastian Varges
Renata Vieira
David Vilar
Stephan Vogel
Ellen Voorhees
Ye-Yi Wang
Karen Ward
Taro Watanabe
Andy Way
Bonnie Webber
Eric Wehrli
Ben Wellington
Fuliang Weng
Martin Westphal
Ed Whittaker
Janyce Wiebe
Jason Williams
Shuly Wintner
Dekai Wu
Fei Xia
David Yarowsky
Alex Yates
Chen Yu
Hugo Zaragoza
Daniel Zeman
Richard Zens
Jian Zhang
Joy Zhang
Yi Zhang
Bing Zhao
Liang Zhou
Ming Zhou
Imed Zitouni
xiii


Prompt:
Organizers
General Chair:
Mari Ostendorf, University of Washington
Local Arrangements:
James Martin, University of Colorado
Martha Palmer, University of Colorado
Program Committee Chairs:
Michael Collins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Shri Narayanan, University of Southern California
Douglas W. Oard, University of Maryland
Lucy Vanderwende, Microsoft Research
Publicity Chairs:
Matthew Stone, Rutgers University
Gokhan Tur, SRI International
Diana Inkpen, University of Ottawa
Publications Chairs:
Christy Doran, MITRE
Eric Ringger, Brigham Young University
Tutorials Chairs:
Ciprian Chelba, Google
Paul Kantor, Rutgers University
Brian Roark, Oregon Health and Science University
Workshops Chairs:
Nizar Habash, Columbia University
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, University of Illinois
Doctoral Consortium Organizers:
Carolyn Ros´e, Faculty Chair, CMU
Anoop Sarkar, Faculty Chair, Simon Fraser University
vii

Svetlana Stoyachev, Student Co-Chair, Stony Brook University


Prompt:
Stony Brook University
Ulrich Germann, Student Co-Chair, University of Toronto
Chirag Shah, Student Co-Chair, University of North Carolina
Demo Chairs:
Fred Popowich, Simon Fraser University
Michael Johnston, AT&T
Sponsorship Committee:
Nicolas Nicolov (Local Chair)
Hitoshi Isahara and Kim-Teng Lua (Asian ACL Rrepresentatives)
Philipp Koehn and Josef van Genabith (European ACL Representatives)
Srinivas Bangalore and Christy Doran (American ACL Representatives)
viii

Program Committee
Senior Program Committee Members:
Michiel Bacchiani, Google
Regina Barzilay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kenneth W. Church, Microsoft Research
Charles L. A. Clarke, University of Waterloo
Eric Fosler-Lussier, Ohio State University
Sharon Goldwater, University of Edinburgh
Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University
Jimmy Huang, York University
Mark Johnson, Brown University
Philipp Koehn, University of Edinburgh
Roland Kuhn, National Research Council of Canada, IIT


Prompt:
nada, IIT
Gina-Anne Levow, University of Manchester
Dekang Lin, Google
Ryan McDonald, Google
Premkumar Natarajan, BBN Technologies
Patrick Pantel, Yahoo! Labs
Kristina Toutanova, Microsoft Research
Geoff Zweig, Microsoft Research
Paper Award Committee:
Candace Sidner, Chair, BAE Systems AIT
Hal Daum´e III, University of Utah
Roland Kuhn, NRC Institute for Information Technology
Ryan McDonald, Google Inc.
Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh
Program Committee Members:
Stephen Abney
Meni Adler
Eugene Agichtein
Eneko Agirre
Lars Ahrenberg
Adam Albright
Enrique Alfonseca
Afra Alishahi
Sophia Ananiadou
Shankar Ananthakrishnan
Bill Andreopoulos
Galen Andrew
Walter Andrews
Masayuki Asahara
Necip Fazil Ayan
Mark Baillie
Timothy Baldwin
Roberto Basili
Ron Bekkerman
Sabine Bergler
Shane Bergsma
Rahul Bhagat
Dan Bikel
Mikhail Bilenko
ix

Alexandra Birch
Alan Black
Sasha Blair-Goldensohn
John Blitzer
Paul Boersma
Johan Bos
Alexandre Bouchard-Cˆot´e
S.R.K. Branavan
Chris Brew
Ted Briscoe


Prompt:
Chris Brew
Ted Briscoe
Chris Brockett
Stefan Buettcher
Razvan Bunescu
Jill Burstein
Cory Butz
William Byrne
Chris Callison-Burch
Claire Cardie
Giuseppe Carenini
Marine Carpuat
Xavier Carreras
Francisco Casacuberta
Joyce Chai
Yllias Chali
Nate Chambers
Jason Chang
Eugene Charniak
Ciprian Chelba
Harr Chen
Colin Cherry
David Chiang
Tat-Seng Chua
Grace Chung
Massimiliano Ciaramita
Stephen Clark
Peter Clark
Mark Craven
Mathias Creutz
Aron Culotta
James Cussens
Robert Dale
Cristian Danescu Niculescu-Mizil
Hal Daum´e III
Guy De Pauw
John DeNero
Barbara Di Eugenio
Mona Diab
Bill Dolan
Christy Doran
Doug Downey
Mark Dredze
Markus Dreyer
Rebecca Dridan
Kevin Duh
Chris Dyer
Andreas Eisele
Jacob Eisenstein
Jason Eisner
Michael Elhadad
Noemie Elhadad
Mark Ellison
Micha Elsner
Dominique Estival
Oren Etzioni
Hui Fang
Marcello Federico
Paolo Ferragina
Jenny Finkel
Erin Fitzgerald
Radu Florian
George Foster
Dayne Freitag
Pascale Fung
Robert Gaizauskas
Michael Gamon
Kuzman Ganchev
Jianfeng Gao


Prompt:
Kuzman Ganchev
Jianfeng Gao
Claire Gardent
Stuart Geman
Ulrich Germann
Shlomo Geva
Mazin Gilbert
Daniel Gildea
Jesus Gimenez
Roxana Girju
Randy Goebel
John Goldsmith
Ralph Grishman
Asela Gunawardana
Gholamreza Haffari
Aria Haghighi
Udo Hahn
x

Dilek Hakkani-T¨ur
Keith Hall
Hyoil Han
Mary Harper
Saˇsa Hasan
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
Timothy J. Hazen
Xiaodong He
William Headden
Peter Heeman
James Henderson
Iris Hendrickx
Graeme Hirst
Hieu Hoang
Kristy Hollingshead
Mark Hopkins
Vronique Hoste
Chu-Ren Huang
Liang Huang
Rebecca Hwa
Diana Inkpen
Abe Ittycheriah
Gaja Jarosz
Heng Ji
Richard Johansson
Howard Johnson
Rie Johnson
Doug Jones
Gareth Jones
Aravind Joshi
Min-Yen Kan
Chia-lin Kao
Nikiforos Karamanis
Rohit Kate
Vlado Keselj
Shahram Khadivi
Sanjeev Khudanpur
Adam Kilgarriff
Jin-Dong Kim
Owen Kimball
Dan Klein
Kevin Knight
Mamoru Komachi
Grzegorz Kondrak
Terry Koo
Anna Korhonen
Kimmo Koskenniemi
Emiel Krahmer
Jonas Kuhn
Shankar Kumar
Christian K¨onig
Philippe Langlais
Mirella Lapata


Prompt:
Mirella Lapata
Alex Lascarides
Alon Lavie
Claudia Leacock
Lillian Lee
Yoong Keok Lee
James Lester
Gregor Leusch
Roger Levy
David Lewis
Wei Li
Xiao Li
Haizhou Li
Hang Li
Ping Li
Percy Liang
Hank Liao
Jimmy Lin
Chin-Yew Lin
Bing Liu
Yang Liu
Tie-Yan Liu
Andrej Ljolje
Adam Lopez
Alex Lopez-Ortiz
Bill MacCartney
Nitin Madnani
Bernardo Magnini
Jonathan Mamou
Suresh Manandhar
Lidia Mangu
Gideon Mann
Chris Manning
Daniel Marcu
Evgeny Matusov
Arne Mauser
David McAllester
Andrew McCallum
Diana McCarthy
David McClosky
xi

Kathy McCoy
Kathleen McKeown
Susan McRoy
Qiaozhu Mei
Paola Merlo
Rada Mihalcea
Yusuke Miyao
Saif Mohammad
Dan Moldovan
Bob Moore
Richard Moot
Pedro Moreno
Dragos Munteanu
Smaranda Muresan
Muthu Muthukrishnan
Tetsuji Nakagawa
Preslav Nakov
Ani Nenkova
Hermann Ney
Hwee Tou Ng
Vincent Ng
Raymond Ng
Patrick Nguyen
Jian-Yun Nie
Joakim Nivre
Franz Och
Kemal Oﬂazer
Scott Olsson
Luca Onnis
Miles Osborne
Tim Paek
Bo Pang
Marius Pasca
Rebecca Passonneau
Matthias Paulik
Ted Pedersen


Prompt:
Matthias Paulik
Ted Pedersen
Marco Pennacchiotti
Mati Pentus
Amy Perfors
Slav Petrov
Joseph Picone
Janet Pierrehumbert
Livia Polanyi
Hoifung Poon
Ana-Maria Popescu
Maja Popovic
Fred Popowich
John Prager
Rohit Prasad
Partha Pratim Talukdar
Matthew Purver
Chris Quirk
Drago Radev
Rajat Raina
Daniel Ramage
Owen Rambow
Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar
Deepak Ravichandran
Stefan Riezler
Ellen Riloff
Eric Ringger
Brian Roark
Barbara Rosario
Dan Roth
Alex Rudnicky
Marta Ruiz
Anton Rytting
Kenji Sagae
Johan Schalkwyk
David Schlangen
Tanja Schultz
Petr Schwarz
Holger Schwenk
Satoshi Sekine
Mike Seltzer
Stephanie Seneff
Wade Shen
Stuart Shieber
Luo Si
Michel Simard
Olivier Siohan
Kevin Small
David Smith
Noah Smith
Mark Smucker
Rion Snow
Ben Snyder
Radu Soricut
Richard Sproat
Amit Srivastava
David Stallard
Mark Steedman
xii

Mark Stevenson
Michael Strube
Amarnag Subramanya
Torsten Suel
Eiichiro Sumita
Charles Sutton
David Talbot
Ben Taskar
Yee Whye Teh
Simone Teufel
Joerg Tiedemann


Prompt:
Joerg Tiedemann
Christoph Tillmann
Ivan Titov
Isabel Trancoso
David Traum
Andrew Trotman
Peter Turney
Nicola Uefﬁng
Jay Urbain
Antal van den Bosch
Benjamin van Durme
Olga Vechtomova
Dimitra Vergyri
Evelyne Viegas
David Vilar
Ye-Yi Wang
Qin Wang
Nigel Ward
Taro Watanabe
Bonnie Webber
MIchael White
Richard Wicentowski
Jason Williams
Shuly Wintner
Dekai Wu
Mingfang Wu
Peng Xu
Roman Yangarber
Alex Yates
Zheng Ye
Scott Wen-tau Yih
Chen Yu
Dong Yu
Fabio Massimo Zanzotto
Richard Zens
Luke Zettlemoyer
Hao Zhang
Ming Zhou
Wei Zhou
Bowen Zhou
Jerry Zhu
Jianhan Zhu
Andreas Zollmann


Prompt:
Joerg Tiedemann
Christoph Tillmann
Ivan Titov
Isabel Trancoso
David Traum
Andrew Trotman
Peter Turney
Nicola Uefﬁng
Jay Urbain
Antal van den Bosch
Benjamin van Durme
Olga Vechtomova
Dimitra Vergyri
Evelyne Viegas
David Vilar
Ye-Yi Wang
Qin Wang
Nigel Ward
Taro Watanabe
Bonnie Webber
MIchael White
Richard Wicentowski
Jason Williams
Shuly Wintner
Dekai Wu
Mingfang Wu
Peng Xu
Roman Yangarber
Alex Yates
Zheng Ye
Scott Wen-tau Yih
Chen Yu
Dong Yu
Fabio Massimo Zanzotto
Richard Zens
Luke Zettlemoyer
Hao Zhang
Ming Zhou
Wei Zhou
Bowen Zhou
Jerry Zhu
Jianhan Zhu
Andreas Zollmann
xiii


Prompt:
Organizers
General Chair:
Ronald Kaplan, Powerset Division of Microsoft Bing
Program Co-Chairs:
Jill Burstein (NLP), Educational Testing Service
Mary Harper (Speech), University of Maryland and The Johns Hopkins University HLTCOE
Gerald Penn (NLP), University of Toronto
Workshop Chairs:
Richard Sproat, Oregon Health & Science University
David Traum, University of Southern California, Institute for Creative Technologies
Demo Chair:
Carolyn Penstein Ros´e, Carnegie Mellon University
Tutorial Chairs:
Jason Baldridge, The University of Texas at Austin
Peter Clark, The Boeing Company
Gokhan Tur, SRI International
Publications Chairs:
Claudia Leacock, Butler Hill Group
Richard Wicentowski, Swarthmore College
Student Research Workshop Chairs:
Julia Hockenmaier (Faculty Advisor), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Diane Litman (Faculty Advisor), University of Pittsburgh
Adriane Boyd (NLP Co-Chair), University of Ohio
Mahesh Joshi (NLP Co-Chair), Carnegie Mellon University


Prompt:
Carnegie Mellon University
Frank Rudzicz (Speech Co-Chair), University of Toronto
Local Arrangements Chairs:
David Chiang, University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute
Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute
Jonathan May, University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute
Jason Riesa, University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute
vii

Exhibits Chairs:
Jillian Gerten, University of Southern California, Institute for Creative Technologies
Kenji Sagae, University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute
Student Volunteers Coordinator:
Liang Huang, University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute
Sponsorship Chairs:
Srinivas Bangalore (North America), AT&T
Christy Doran (North America), MITRE
Eduard Hovy (Local), University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute
Stephen Pulman (Europe), Oxford University


Prompt:
Oxford University
Fr´ed´erique Segond (Europe), Xerox Research Centre Europe
ACL Business Manager:
Priscilla Rasmussen
viii

Program Committee
Senior Program Committee Members (Area Chairs):
Eugene Agichtein, Emory University
Yaser Al-Onaizan, IBM
Ciprian Chelba, Google
Mona Diab, Columbia University
Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois at Chicago
Eric Fosler-Lussier, Ohio State University
Makoto Kanazawa, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo
Damianos Karakos, Johns Hopkins University
Philip Koehn, University of Edinburgh
Mike Maxwell, University of Maryland
Diana McCarthy, Lexical Computing Ltd
Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania
Stefan Oepen, University of Oslo
Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Noah Smith, Carnegie Mellon University
Amanda Stent, AT&T
Joel Tetreault, Educational Testing Service
Jan Wiebe, University of Pittsburgh
Paper Award Committee:
Aravind Joshi (Chair), University of Pennsylvania


Prompt:
University of Pennsylvania
Daniel Marcu, University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute
Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh
Drago Radev, University of Michigan
Eugene Charniak, Brown University
Michael Collins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Program Committee Members:
Steve Abney
Mikhail Ageev
Eneko Agirre
David Ahn
Gregory Aist
Salah Ait-Mokhtar
Cem Akkaya
Ingunn Amdal
Ron Artstein
Abhishek Arun
Necip Fazil Ayan
Jason Baldridge
Tim Baldwin
Carmen Banea
Srinivas Bangalore
Regina Barzilay
Roberto Basili
Anja Belz
Yassine Benajiba
Emily M. Bender
Shane Bergsma
Steven Bethard
Pushpak Bhattacharyya
Jiang Bian
Dan Bikel
Alexandra Birch
Steven Bird
ix

Philippe Blache
Bernd Bohnet
Kristy Boyer
SRK Branavan
Antnio Branco
Thorsten Brants
Chris Brew
Sam Brody
Razvan Bunescu
Harry Bunt
Lukas Burget
Bill Byrne
Donna Byron
Lynne Cahill
Aoife Cahill
Chris Callison-Burch
Claire Cardie
Giuseppe Carenini
Michael Carl
Marine Carpuat
John Carroll
Francisco Casacuberta


Prompt:
Francisco Casacuberta
Joyce Chai
Eugene Charniak
Ciprian Chelba
Jinying Chen
John Chen
Harr Chen
Yejin Choi
Alexander Clark
Stephen Clark
James Clarke
Martin Cmejrek
Shay Cohen
Trevor Cohn
Michael Collins
Michael Connor
John Conroy
Mark Core
Mathias Creutz
Aron Culotta
Robert Dale
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-
Mizil
Hal Daume
Anne David
Kordula De Kuthy
Eric de la Clergerie
Dina Demner Fushman
John DeNero
David DeVault
Doug Downey
Mark Dredze
Jasha Droppo
Amit Dubey
Kevin Duh
Markus Egg
Andreas Eisele
Jacob Eisenstein
Jason Eisner
Noemie Elhadad
Jonathan Elsas
Micha Elsner
Ahmad Emami
Andrea Esuli
Tanveer Faruquie
Benoit Favre
Elena Filatova
Katja Filippova
Jenny Finkel
Dan Flickinger
Kate Forbes Riley
Eric Fosler-Lussier
Davide Fossati
Jennifer Foster
George Foster
Alexander Fraser
Maria Fuentes
Pascale Fung
Ryan Gabbard
Michel Galley
Michael Gamon
Albert Gatt
Panayiotis Georgiou
Dan Gildea
Jesus Gimenez
Roxana Girju
Claudio Giuliano
Vaibhava Goel
Dan Goldwasser
Carlos Gomez Rodriguez


Prompt:
Carlos Gomez Rodriguez
Jeff Good
Nancy Green
Ralph Grishman
Qi Guo
Weiwei Guo
Iryna Gurevych
Aria Haghighi
Keith Hall
Mike Hammond
Sanda Harabagiu
Mary Harper
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
Laura Hasler
Hany Hassan
Xiaodong He
Jeff Heinz
James Henderson
Andy Hickl
Silja Hildebrand
Graeme Hirst
Hieu Hoang
Julia Hockenmaier
Kristy Hollingshead
Rebecca Hwa
Nancy Ide
Diana Inkpen
Abraham Ittycheriah
Aren Jansen
Heng Ji
Kristiina Jokinen
Doug Jones
Laura Kallmeyer
Hiroshi Kanayama
Damianos Karakos
Lauri Karttunen
Athanassios Katsamanis
Frank Keller
Cynthia Kersey
Tracy King
Brian Kingsbury
Dan Klein
Kevin Knight
Greg Kobele
Rob Koeling
Greg Kondrak
Terry Koo
Stefan Kopp
x

Valia Kordoni
Anna Korhonen
Sandra Kuebler
Marco Kuhlmann
Roland Kuhn
Jonas Kuhn
Seth Kulick
Mikko Kurimo
Oren Kurland
Sadao Kurohashi
Arnd Christian Knig
Philippe Langlais
Mirella Lapata
Alberto Lavelli
Matt Lease
Lin-Shan Lee
Els Lefever
James Lester
Gregor Leusch
Haizhou Li
Zhifei Li
Henry Li
Mu Li
Percy Liang
Jimmy Lin


Prompt:
Mu Li
Percy Liang
Jimmy Lin
Diane Litman
Qun Liu
Yang Liu
Zhanyi Liu
Adam Lopez
Annie Louis
Bernardo Magnini
Wolfgang Maier
Rob Malouf
Arindam Mandal
Lidia Mangu
Christopher Manning
Daniel Marcu
Lluis Marquez Villodre
David Martinez
Andre Martins
Yuval Marton
Sameer Maskey
Yuji Matsumoto
Evgeny Matusov
Arne Mauser
Mike Maxwell
James Mayﬁeld
David McClosky
Mark McConnville
Nancy McCracken
David McDonald
Ryan McDonald
Kathy McKeown
Susan McRoy
Florian Metze
Eleni Miltsakaki
Gilad Mishne
Yusuke Miyao
Saif Mohammad
Bob Moore
Alessandro Moschitti
Dragos Munteanu
Smaranda Muresan
Gabriel Murray
Tor Andre Myrvoll
Roberto Navigli
Mark-Jan Nederhof
Sumit Negi
Hwee Tou Ng
Vincent Ng
Patrick Nguyen
Takashi Ninomiya
Joakim Nivre
Doug Oard
Franz Och
Kemal Oﬂazer
Alice Oh
Constantin Orasan
Miles Osborne
Lilja Ovrelid
Deepak Padmanabhan
Ulrike Pado
Alexis Palmer
Martha Palmer
Bo Pang
Marius Pasca
Becky Passonneau
Sid Patwardhan
Ted Pedersen
Slav Petrov
Christine Piatko
Daniele Pighin
Emily Pitler


Prompt:
Daniele Pighin
Emily Pitler
Massimo Poesio
Joe Polifroni
Simone Ponzetto
Maja Popovic
Dan Povey
Sameer Pradhan
Rashmi Prasad
Chris Quirk
Stephan Raaijmakers
Bhuvana Ramabhadran
Allan Ramsay
Ari Rappoport
Ariya Rastrow
Lev Ratinov
Roi Reichart
Ehud Reiter
German Rigau
Michael Riley
Laura Rimell
Nicholas Rizzolo
Brian Roark
Horacio Rodriguez
Victoria Rosen
Antti-Veikko Rosti
Dan Roth
Shourya Roy
Marta Ruiz Costa-juss
Mark Sammons
George Saon
Murat Saraclar
Kevin Scannell
Odette Scharenborg
David Schlangen
Helmut Schmid
Hinrich Schuetze
Mike Seltzer
Hendra Setiawan
Fei Sha
Izhak Shafran
Wade Shen
Libin Shen
Nobuyuki Shimizu
Advaith Siddharthan
Khalil Simaan
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Michel Simard
Kevin Small
David Smith
Mark Smucker
Swapna Somasundaran
Radu Soricut
Richard Sproat
Vivek Srikumar
Yaji Sripada
Mark Steedman
Josef Steinberger
Amanda Stent
Mark Stevenson
Carlo Strapparava
Kristina Striegnitz
Michael Strube
LV Subramaniam
Mihai Surdeanu
Hiroya Takamura
David Talbot
Simone Teufel
Joerg Tiedemann


Prompt:
Joerg Tiedemann
Christoph Tillmann
Ivan Titov
Kristina Toutanova
Roy Tromble
Yoshimasa Tsuruoka
Ielka van der Sluis
Josef van Genabith
Keith Vander Linden
Balakrishnan Varadarajan
Ashish Venugopal
Yannick Versley
David Vilar
Stephan Vogel
Piek Vossen
Marilyn Walker
Stephen Wan
Wen Wang
Haifeng Wang
XingLong Wang
Qin Wang
Ye-Yi Wang
Andy Way
Bonnie Webber
David Weir
Fuiliang Weng
Michael White
Chris White
Richard Wicentowski
Theresa Wilson
Shuly Wintner
Yunfang Wu
Dekai Wu
Hua Wu
Holger Wunsch
Bing Xiang
Deyi Xiong
Puyang Xu
Jinxi Xu
Peng Xu
Wen-tau Yih
Dong Yu
Deniz Yuret
David Zajic
Richard Zens
Hao Zhang
Yue Zhang
Dongdong Zhang
Yi Zhang
Min Zhang
Ying Zhang
Tiejun Zhao
Bing Zhao
Bowen Zhou
Xiaodan Zhu
Imed Zitouni
Andreas Zollmann
Chengqing Zong
Geoff Zweig


Prompt:
Joerg Tiedemann
Christoph Tillmann
Ivan Titov
Kristina Toutanova
Roy Tromble
Yoshimasa Tsuruoka
Ielka van der Sluis
Josef van Genabith
Keith Vander Linden
Balakrishnan Varadarajan
Ashish Venugopal
Yannick Versley
David Vilar
Stephan Vogel
Piek Vossen
Marilyn Walker
Stephen Wan
Wen Wang
Haifeng Wang
XingLong Wang
Qin Wang
Ye-Yi Wang
Andy Way
Bonnie Webber
David Weir
Fuiliang Weng
Michael White
Chris White
Richard Wicentowski
Theresa Wilson
Shuly Wintner
Yunfang Wu
Dekai Wu
Hua Wu
Holger Wunsch
Bing Xiang
Deyi Xiong
Puyang Xu
Jinxi Xu
Peng Xu
Wen-tau Yih
Dong Yu
Deniz Yuret
David Zajic
Richard Zens
Hao Zhang
Yue Zhang
Dongdong Zhang
Yi Zhang
Min Zhang
Ying Zhang
Tiejun Zhao
Bing Zhao
Bowen Zhou
Xiaodan Zhu
Imed Zitouni
Andreas Zollmann
Chengqing Zong
Geoff Zweig
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Prompt:
General Chair:
Jennifer Chu-Carroll, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Program Co-Chairs:
Eric Fosler-Lussier, The Ohio State University
Ellen Riloff, University of Utah
Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T
Area Chairs:
Roberto Basili, University of Rome: Semantics
Guiseppe Carenini, University of British Columbia: Summarization and Generation
Yejin Choi, Stony Brook University: Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
Christy Doran, MITRE: Language Resources Novel Evaluation Methods
Jason Eisner, Johns Hopkins University: Phonology and Morphology Word Segmentation
George Foster, National Research Council Canada: Machine Translation
Roxana Girju University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Social Media Analysis and Processing
Heng Ji, City University of New York: Information Extraction
Sadao Kurohashi, Kyoto University: Syntactic Tagging and Chunking
Matt Lease, University of Texas Austin: Information Retrieval and Question Answering


Prompt:
Answering
Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh: Discourse Dialogue and Pragmatics
Deepak Ravichandran, Google: Information Extraction
Guiseppe Ricardi, University of Trento: Spoken Language Processing
Richard Rose, McGill University: Spoken Language Processing
Giorgio Satta, University of Padova: Syntax and Parsing
Fei Sha, University of Southern California: Machine Learning for Language Processing
Suzanne Stevenson, University of Toronto: Semantics
David Traum, University of Southern California: End-to-end Language Processing Systems
Scott Yih, Microsoft: Machine Learning for Language Processing
Luke Zettlemoyer, University of Washington: Syntax and Parsing
Bowen Zhou, IBM: Machine Translation
Jerry Zhu, University of Wisconsin: Document Categorization/Topic Clustering
Local Arrangements:
Chair:
Priscilla Rasmussen, ACL Business Ofﬁce, acl-AT-aclweb.org
Advisory committee:
Sabine Bergler, Concordia University
Guy Lapalme, Universit´e de Montr´eal
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Workshops Co-Chairs:


Prompt:
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Workshops Co-Chairs:
Colin Cherry, National Research Council of Canada
Mona Diab, Columbia University
Tutorials Co-Chairs:
Jacob Eisenstein, CMU
Radu Florian, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Demos Co-Chairs:
Aria Haghighi, Prismatic
Yaser Al-Onaizan, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Student Workshop:
Co-chairs:
Rivka Levitan, Columbia University
Myle Ott, Cornell University
Faculty Advisors:
Roger Levy, UCSD
Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania
Publications:
Nizar Habash, Columbia University
William Schuler, OSU
Publicity:
Smaranda Muresan, Rutgers University
Exhibits:
Joel Tetreault, Education Testing Services
Webmaster:
Dirk Hovy, USC/ISI
Americas Sponsorship Co-chairs:
Michael Gamon, Microsoft Research
Patrick Pantel, Microsoft Research
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Program Committee Members:
Hua Ai
Gregory Aist
Cem Akkaya
Afra Alishahi
Cecilia O. Alm
Giambattista Amati
Ion Androutsopoulos
David Andrzejewski
Mark Arehart
Victoria Arranz
Javier Artiles
Ron Artstein
Abhishek Arun
Javed Aslam


Prompt:
Abhishek Arun
Javed Aslam
Giuseppe Attardi
Necip Fazil Ayan
Michiel Bacchiani
Timothy Baldwin
Krisztian Balog
Eva Banik
Michele Banko
Ken Barker
Roberto Bayardo
Nick Belkin
Anja Belz
Emily Bender
Michael Bendersky
Paul Bennett
Edward Benson
Sabine Bergler
Shane Bergsma
Raffaella Bernardi
Steven Bethard
Rahul Bhagat
Alan W. Black
Roi Blanco
John Blitzer
Branimir Boguraev
Dan Bohus
Johan Bos
Alexandre Bouchard-Cote
Gosse Bouma
Jordan Boyd-Graber
Kristy Boyer
Thorsten Brants
Ulf Brefeld
Fabio Brugnara
Sabine Buchholz
Bill Byrne
Aoife Cahill
Clarie Cardie
Andrew Carlson
Marine Carpuat
John Carroll
Francisco Casacuberta
Diamantino Caseiro
Tommaso Caselli
Mauro Cettolo
Joyce Chai
Yllias Chali
Ming-Wei Chang
Pi-Chuan Chang
Eugene Charniak
Ciprian Chelba
Boxing Chen
John Chen
Zheng Chen
Wenliang Chen
Colin Cherry
David Chiang
Yejin Choi
Christos Christodoulopoulos
Wei Chu
Philipp Cimiano
Stephen Clark
Alex Clark
Martin Cmejrek
Shay Cohen
Ronan Collobert
Sherri Condon
Gao Cong
Michael Connor


Prompt:
Gao Cong
Michael Connor
Paul Cook
Mark Core
Stephen Cox
Mark Craven
Danilo Croce
Aron Culotta
Walter Daelemans
Geraldine Damnati
Hoa Trang Dang
Dipanjan Das
Sajib Dasgupta
Hal Daume III
Adria de Gispert
Renato De Mori
Rodolfo Delmonte
Dina Demner-Fushman
Steve DeNeefe
John DeNero
Hongbo Deng
Nicholas Diakopoulos
Laura Dietz
Chrysanne DiMarco
Xiaowen Ding
Denise DiPersio
Doug Downey
Markus Dreyer
Kevin Duh
Chris Dyer
Marc Dymetman
Myroslava Dzikovska
Jens Edlund
Koji Eguchi
Jacob Eisenstein
Charles Elkan
Jonathan Elsas
Micha Elsner
Ahmad Emami
Hakan Erdogan
Hui Fang
Faisal Farooq
Afsaneh Fazly
Anna Feldman
Donghui Feng
Elena Filatova
xi

Katja Filippova
Tim Finin
Jenny Finkel
Dan Flickinger
Radu Florian
Kate Forbes-Riley
Jennifer Foster
Francesca Frontini
Michel Galley
Kuzman Ganchev
Kavita Ganesan
Jianfeng Gao
Qin Gao
Albert Gatt
Niyu Ge
Dmitriy Genzel
Kallirroi Georgila
Panayiotis Georgiou
Matthew Gerber
Shalini Ghosh
Arnab Ghoshal
Daniel Gildea
Kevin Gimpel
Roxana Girju
Alﬁo Gliozzo


Prompt:
Roxana Girju
Alﬁo Gliozzo
Amir Globerson
Vibhav Gogate
Yoav Goldberg
Sharon Goldwater
Carlos Gomez Rodriguez
Julio Gonzalo
Joao Graca
Agustin Gravano
Nancy Green
Gregory Grefenstette
Ralph Grishman
Markus Guhe
Iryna Gurevych
Nizar Habash
Gholamreza Haffari
Dilek Hakkani-Tur
Keith Hall
David Hall
Olivier Hamon
Sandra Harabagin
Lisa Harper
Helen Hastie
Timothy J. Hazen
Xiaodong He
Marti Hearst
Jeffrey Heinz
Aurelie Herbelot
Sanjika Hewavitharana
Silja Hildebrand
Graeme Hirst
Barbora Hladka
Hieu Hoang
Julia Hockenmaier
Minlie Huang
Zhongqiang Huang
Jimmy Huang
Yang Hui
Nancy Ide
Amy Isard
Abraham Ittycheriah
Emily Jamison
Jing Jiang
Richard Johansson
Howard Johnson
Mark Johnson
Kristiina Jokinen
Doug Jones
Pamela Jordan
Shaﬁq Joty
Nobuhiro Kaji
Hiroshi Kanayama
Daisuke Kawahara
Anna Kazantseva
Alistair Kennedy
Joseph Keshet
Tracy King
Brian Kingsbury
Katrin Kirchhoff
Dietrich Klakow
Alexandre Klementiev
Philipp Koehn
Rob Koeling
Stanley Kok
Alexander Koller
Grzegorz Kondrak
Terry Koo


Prompt:
Grzegorz Kondrak
Terry Koo
Zornitsa Kozareva
Taku Kudoh
Sandra Kuebler
Marco Kuhlmann
Roland Kuhn
Seth Kulick
Shankar Kumar
Oren Kurland
Philippe Langlais
Guy Lapalme
Mirella Lapata
Alon Lavie
Matt Lease
John Lehmann
Alessandro Lenci
James Lester
Gregor Leusch
Anton Leuski
Haibo Li
Shoushan Li
Hang Li
Zhifei Li
Fangtao Li
Mu Li
Fennie Liang
Percy Liang
Elizabeth Liddy
Ding Liu
Zhiyuan Liu
Qun Liu
Yang Liu
Yan Liu
Eduardo Lleida Solano
Oier Lopez de Lacalle
Annie Louis
Pengfei Lu
Bin Lu
Yue Lu
Klaus Macherey
Wolfgang Macherey
Nitin Madnani
Andreas Maletti
Arindam Mandal
Gideon Mann
Christopher Manning
Daniel Marcu
James Martin
xii

Andre Martins
Yuval Marton
Sameer Maskey
Spyros Matsoukas
Takuya Matsuzaki
Mike Maxwell
Jon May
James Mayﬁeld
Diana Maynard
Diana McCarthy
Ryan McDonald
Paul McNamee
Dan Melamed
Chris Mellish
Arul Menezes
Donald Metzler
Haitao Mi
Rada Mihalcea
Keith J. Miller
Andriy Mnih
Saif Mohammad
Bob Moore
Alessandro Moschitti
Dragos Munteanu
Smaranda Muresan


Prompt:
Smaranda Muresan
Gabriel Murray
Meenakshi Nagarajan
Tetsuji Nakagawa
Roberto Navigli
Mark-Jan Nederhof
Ani Nenkova
Alena Neviarouskaya
Hwee Tou Ng
Alexandru Niculescu-Mizil
Jian-Yun Nie
Joakim Nivre
Stephan Oepen
Constantin Orasan
Beatrice Oshika
Christopher Pal
Sinno Jialin Pan
Bo Pang
Soo-Min Pantel
Cecile Paris
Chris Parisien
S Parthasarathy
Marius Pasca
Siddharth Patwardhan
Michael Paul
Adam Pauls
Anselmo Penas
Marco Pennacchiotti
Slav Petrov
Fabio Pianesi
Emily Pitler
Paul Piwek
Thierry Poibeau
Joe Polifroni
Hoifung Poon
Martin Popel
Adrian Popescu
Maja Popovic
Matt Post
Sameer Pradhan
John Prager
Mark Przybocki
Stephen Pulman
Matthew Purver
Yanjun Qi
Silvia Quarteroni
Chris Quirk
Dragomir Radev
Piyush Rai
Owen Rambow
Delip Rao
Ari Rappoport
Lev-Arie Ratinov
Sujith Ravi
Sravana Reddy
Ines Rehbein
Ehud Reiter
Jason Riggle
Laura Rimell
Alan Ritter
Antonio Roque
Carolyn Rose
Andrew Rosenberg
Afshin Rostamizadeh
Dan Roth
Marta Ruiz
Josef Ruppenhofer
Irene Russo
Kenji Sagae


Prompt:
Irene Russo
Kenji Sagae
Alicia Sagae
Horacio Saggion
Murat Saraclar
Anoop Sarkar
Manabu Sassano
Hassan Sawaf
Frank Schilder
David Schlangen
Sabine Schulte im Walde
Holger Schwenk
Donia Scott
Fr´ed´erique Segond
Satoshi Sekine
Hendra Setiawan
Burr Settles
Wade Shen
Shuming Shi
Michel Simard
Vikas Sindhwani
Kevin Small
David Smith
Ronnie Smith
Benjamin Snyder
Morgan Sonderegger
Lucia Specia
Caroline Sporleder
Matthew Stone
Veselin Stoyanov
Carlo Strapparava
Stephanie Strassel
Kristina Striegnitz
Michael Strube
Jian Su
L Venkata Subramaniam
Amarnag Subramanya
Richard Sutcliffe
Charles Sutton
Hiroya Takamura
Partha Talukdar
Joerg Tiedemann
Christoph Tillmann
Ivan Titov
Noriko Tomuro
Sara Tonelli
Audrey Tong
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Cigdem Toprak
Kristina Toutanova
Vivian Tsang
Oren Tsur
Yoshimasa Tsuruoka
Gokhan Tur
Joseph Turian
Oscar T¨ackstr¨om
Jacob Uszkoreit
Lonneke van der Plas
Ielka van der Sluis
Gertjan van Noord
Lucy Vanderwende
Ashish Venugopal
Guido Vetere
David Vilar
Aline Villavicencio


Prompt:
Aline Villavicencio
Ellen Voorhees
Xiaojun Wan
Stephen Wan
Lidan Wang
Chong Wang
Haifeng Wang
Nigel Ward
Taro Watanabe
Bonnie Webber
Fuliang Weng
Michael White
Richard Wicentowski
Jason Williams
Theresa Wilson
Guillaume Wisniewski
Kamfai Wong
Frank Wood
Dekai Wu
Yunqing Xia
Bing Xiang
Deyi Xiong
Peng Xu
Nianwen Xue
Fan Yang
Muyun Yang
Tianbao Yang
Roman Yangarber
Alex Yates
Ainur Yessenalina
Yisong Yue
Murawaki Yugo
Franc¸ois Yvon
Fabio Massimo Zanzotto
Be˜nat Zapirain
Richard Zens
Zhongwu Zhai
Chengxiang Zhai
Hao Zhang
Ying Zhang
Min Zhang
Lei Zhang
Yi Zhang
Tiejun Zhao
Bing Zhao
Jing Zheng
Zhi-Hua Zhou
Dengyong Zhou
Guodong Zhou
Ming Zhou
Jerry Zhu
Xiaodan Zhu
Imed Zitouni
Chengqing Zong
Geoffrey Zweig
Diarmuid ´O S´eaghdha
Lilja Øvrelid


Prompt:
Aline Villavicencio
Ellen Voorhees
Xiaojun Wan
Stephen Wan
Lidan Wang
Chong Wang
Haifeng Wang
Nigel Ward
Taro Watanabe
Bonnie Webber
Fuliang Weng
Michael White
Richard Wicentowski
Jason Williams
Theresa Wilson
Guillaume Wisniewski
Kamfai Wong
Frank Wood
Dekai Wu
Yunqing Xia
Bing Xiang
Deyi Xiong
Peng Xu
Nianwen Xue
Fan Yang
Muyun Yang
Tianbao Yang
Roman Yangarber
Alex Yates
Ainur Yessenalina
Yisong Yue
Murawaki Yugo
Franc¸ois Yvon
Fabio Massimo Zanzotto
Be˜nat Zapirain
Richard Zens
Zhongwu Zhai
Chengxiang Zhai
Hao Zhang
Ying Zhang
Min Zhang
Lei Zhang
Yi Zhang
Tiejun Zhao
Bing Zhao
Jing Zheng
Zhi-Hua Zhou
Dengyong Zhou
Guodong Zhou
Ming Zhou
Jerry Zhu
Xiaodan Zhu
Imed Zitouni
Chengqing Zong
Geoffrey Zweig
Diarmuid ´O S´eaghdha
Lilja Øvrelid
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Prompt:
Organizing Committee
General Conference Chair
Lucy Vanderwende, Microsoft Research
Program Committee Chairs
Hal Daumé III, University of Maryland
Katrin Kirchhoff, University of Washington
Local Arrangements
Priscilla Rassmussen
Workshop Chairs
Luke Zettlemoyer, University of Washington
Sujith Ravi, Google
Tutorial Chairs
Jimmy Lin, University of Maryland
Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin
Student Research Workshop
Chairs :
Annie Louis, University of Pennsylvania
Richard Socher, Stanford University
Faculty Advisors :
Julia Hockenmaier, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Eric Ringger, Brigham Young University
Student Volunteer Coordinator
Jacob Eisenstein, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech
Demonstrations Chairs
Chris Dyer, Carnegie Mellon University
Derrick Higgins, Educational Testing Service
Local Sponsorship Chair
Chris Brew, Educational Testing Service
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NAACL Sponsorship Chairs
Patrick Pantel, Microsoft Research
Dan Bikel, Google
Publications Chairs


Prompt:
Publications Chairs
Matt Post, Johns Hopkins University
Colin Cherry, National Research Council, Canada
Publicity Chair
Kristy Boyer, North Carolina State University
Program Committee
Program Committee Chairs
Hal Daumé III, University of Maryland
Katrin Kirchhoff, University of Washington
Area Chairs
Phonology and Morphology, Word Segmentation
Markus Dreyer (SDL Language Weaver)
Syntax, Tagging, Chunking and Parsing
Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University)
James Henderson (Université de Genève)
Semantics
Percy Liang (Stanford University)
Peter Turney (National Research Council of Canada)
Multimodal NLP
Srinivas Bangalore (AT&T)
Discourse, Dialogue, Pragmatics
David Traum (Institute for Creative Technologies)
Joyce Chai (Michigan State University)
Linguistic Aspects of CL
Vera Demberg (Saarland University)
Summarization
Guy Lapalme (Université de Montréal)
Generation
Johanna Moore (University of Edinburgh)
ML for Language Processing
Phil Blunsom (University of Oxford)


Prompt:
f Oxford)
Mark Dredze (Johns Hopkins University)
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Machine Translation
Alon Lavie (Carnegie Mellon University)
Marine Carpuat (National Research Council of Canada)
Information Retrieval and QA
Eugene Agichtein (Emory University)
Information Extraction
Doug Downey (Northwestern University)
Sanda Harabagiu (University of Texas at Dallas)
Spoken Language Processing
Zak Shafran (Oregon Health and Science University)
Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
Bo Pang (Cornell University)
Theresa Wilson (Johns Hopkins University)
NLP-enabled Technology
David Bean (TDW)
Document Categorization and Topic Clustering
Jordan Boyd-Graber (University of Maryland)
Social Media Analysis and Processing
Bill Dolan (Microsoft Research)
Language Resources and Evaluation Methods
Ani Nenkova (University of Pennsylvania)
Primary Reviewers
Ahmed Abbasi
Chandra Bhagavatula
Boxing Chen
Mikhail Ageev
Arianna Bisazza
Chen Chen
Eneko Agirre
Nathan Bodenstab
David Chen
Gregory Aist
Danushka Bollegala
Colin Cherry


Prompt:
Colin Cherry
Jan Alexandersson
Alexandre Bouchard
David Chiang
Nicholas Andrews
Jordan Boyd-Graber
Yejin Choi
David Andrzejewski
S.R.K. Branavan
Jennifer Chu-Carroll
Gabor Angeli
Thorsten Brants
Stephen Clark
Yoav Artzi
Chris Brew
James Clarke
Michael Auli
Wray Buntine
Martin Cmejrek
Michiel Bacchiani
David Burkett
Shay Cohen
Anton Bakalov
Jill Burstein
Trevor Cohn
Kirk Baker
Aoife Cahill
Kevyn Collins-Thompson
Tyler Baldwin
Chris Callison-Burch
John Conroy
Marco Baroni
Nicoletta Calzolari
Aron Culotta
Roberto Basili
Nicola Cancedda
James Cussens
Beata Beigman Klebanov
Sandra Carberry
Lyne Da Sylva
Kedar Bellare
Claire Cardie
Ido Dagan
Patrice Bellot
Xavier Carreras
Robert Daland
Emily M. Bender
Daniel Cer
Bhavana Dalvi
Jonathan Berant
Nate Chambers
William Darling
Justin Betteridge
Ming-Wei Chang
Dipanjan Das
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Pradipto Das
Amit Goyal
Brian Kingsbury
Eric De La Clergerie
Joao Graca
Alexandre Klementiev
Steve DeNeefe
Brigitte Grau
Philipp Koehn
John DeNero
Edward Grefenstette


Prompt:
Edward Grefenstette
Rob Koeling
David DeVault
Justin Grimmer
Moshe Koppel
Michael Denkowski
Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez
Alexander Kotov
Jacob Devlin
Nizar Habash
Jayant Krishnamurthy
Laura Dietz
Barry Haddow
Sandra Kuebler
Gregory Druck
Eva Hajicova
Marco Kuhlmann
Lan Du
John Hale
Jonas Kuhn
Chris Dyer
David Hall
Roland Kuhn
Koji Eguchi
Keith Hall
Seth Kulick
Vladimir Eidelman
Greg Hanneman
Shankar Kumar
Jacob Eisenstein
Claudia Hauff
Oren Kurland
Jason Eisner
Xiaodong He
Tom Kwiatkowski
Ahmad Emami
Kenneth Heaﬁeld
Yoong Keok Lee
Andrea Esuli
James Henderson
Maider Lehr
Anthony Fader
John Henderson
Alessandro Lenci
Atefeh Farzindar
Ulf Hermjakob
Gregor Leusch
Anna Feldman
Derrick Higgins
Rivka Levitan
Radu Florian
Graeme Hirst
Fangtao Li
George Foster
Anna Hjalmarsson
Mu Li
Jennifer Foster
Hieu Hoang
Shoushan Li
Mary Ellen Foster
Julia Hockenmaier
Percy Liang
Bob Frank
Matthew Hoffman
Jimmy Lin
Dayne Freitag
Kristy Hollingshead
Xiao Ling
Michel Galley
Yuening Hu
Diane Litman
Michael Gamon


Prompt:
Diane Litman
Michael Gamon
Fei Huang
Ding Liu
Sudeep Gandhe
Liang Huang
Qun Liu
Kavita Ganesan
Minlie Huang
Yang Liu
Claire Gardent
Zhongqiang Huang
Adam Lopez
Matt Gardner
Rebecca Hwa
Annie Louis
Niyu Ge
Diana Inkpen
Xiaofei Lu
Matthew Gerber
Ann Irvine
Yue Lu
George Giannakopoulos
Abe Ittycheriah
Michael Lucas
Daniel Gildea
Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi
Xiaoqiang Luo
Daniel Gillick
Jiarong Jiang
Klaus Macherey
Kevin Gimpel
Howard Johnson
Wolfgang Macherey
Filip Ginter
Michael Johnston
Nitin Madnani
Yoav Goldberg
David Jurgens
Suresh Manandhar
Dan Goldwasser
Alexander Kain
Gideon Mann
Sharon Goldwater
Pallika Kanani
Lluis Marquez
Dave Golland
Anna Kazantseva
Erwin Marsi
Kyle Gorman
Alistair Kennedy
Andre Martins
Cyril Goutte
Tracy Holloway King
Yuval Marton
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Sameer Maskey
Hoifung Poon
Keith Stevens
Yuji Matsumoto
Andrei Popescu-Belis
Mark Stevenson
Evgeny Matusov
Matthew Purver
Matthew Stone
Arne Mauser
Chris Quirk
Veselin Stoyanov
Diana McCarthy
Reinhard Rapp
Fabian Suchanek


Prompt:
Fabian Suchanek
David McClosky
Roi Reichart
Ang Sun
Arul Menezes
Ehud Reiter
Mihai Surdeanu
Florian Metze
Jason Riesa
Jun Suzuki
Donald Metzler
Stefan Riezler
Stan Szpakowicz
Haitao Mi
Ellen Riloff
Partha Talukdar
Rada Mihalcea
Eric Ringger
Christoph Tillmann
Minel Minel
Alan Ritter
Ivan Titov
Margaret Mitchell
Brian Roark
Kristina Toutanova
Yusuke Miyao
Antonio Roque
Reut Tsarfaty
Saif Mohammad
Carolyn Rose
Oren Tsur
Taesun Moon
Andrew Rosenberg
Benjamin Van Durme
Robert Moore
Markus Saers
Josef van Genabith
Roser Morante
Alicia Sagae
Vincent Vanhoucke
Louis-Philippe Morency
Kenji Sagae
Enrique Vidal
Preslav Nakov
Horacio Saggion
Karthik Visweswariah
Nava Nava
Saurav Sahay
Adam Vogel
Roberto Navigli
Mark Sammons
Stephan Vogel
Mark-Jan Nederhof
Murat Saraclar
Xiaojun Wan
Hwee Tou Ng
Anoop Sarkar
Haifeng Wang
Vincent Ng
Giorgio Satta
Taro Watanabe
Patrick Nguyen
Roser Saurí
Bonnie Webber
Viet-An Nguyen
Asad Sayeed
David Weir
Joakim Nivre
David Schlangen
Michael White
Brendan O’Connor


Prompt:
Brendan O’Connor
Judith Schlesinger
Jan Wiebe
Stephan Oepen
Lane Schwartz
Shuly Wintner
Miles Osborne
Holger Schwenk
Kristian Woodsend
Myle Ott
Hendra Setiawan
Bing Xiang
Karolina Owczarzak
Zak Shafran
Peng Xu
Martha Palmer
Libin Shen
Hui Yang
Sinno J. Pan
Wade Shen
Muyun Yang
Bo Pang
Michel Simard
Yi Yang
Rebecca J. Passonneau
Sameer Singh
Tae Yano
Siddharth Patwardhan
Jason Smith
Limin Yao
Michael Paul
Nathaniel Smith
Mahsa Yarmohammadi
Lisa Pearl
Noah A. Smith
Alexander Yates
Ted Pedersen
Swapna Somasundaran
Wen-tau Yih
Gerald Penn
Lucia Specia
Yisong Yue
Slav Petrov
Valentin Spitkovsky
Rabih Zbib
Thierry Poibeau
Caroline Sporleder
Richard Zens
Heather Pon-Barry
Vivek Srikumar
Luke Zettlemoyer
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Ke Zhai
Shiqi Zhao
Xiaodan Zhu
Congle Zhang
Tiejun Zhao
Chengqing Zong
Lei Zhang
Bowen Zhou
Geoffrey Zweig
Min Zhang
Jun Zhu
Secondary Reviewers
JH
Francisco Guzman
Xavier Tannier
Karteek Addanki
Robbie Haertel
Svitlana Volkova
Neil Ashton
Khairun Nisa Hassanali
Haochang Wang


Prompt:
Haochang Wang
Daniel Blanchard
Kriste Krstovski
Xinglong Wang
Hailong Cao
Jun Lang
Mo Yu
Dave Carter
Wang Ling
Feifei Zhai
Glen Coppersmith
Hito Matsushita
Bo Zhao
Daniel Dahlmeier
Hans Moen
Kai Zhao
David Etter
Kevin Seppi
Xiaoning Zhu
Paul Felt
Jun Sun


Prompt:
Haochang Wang
Daniel Blanchard
Kriste Krstovski
Xinglong Wang
Hailong Cao
Jun Lang
Mo Yu
Dave Carter
Wang Ling
Feifei Zhai
Glen Coppersmith
Hito Matsushita
Bo Zhao
Daniel Dahlmeier
Hans Moen
Kai Zhao
David Etter
Kevin Seppi
Xiaoning Zhu
Paul Felt
Jun Sun
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Prompt:
Organizing Committee
General Chair
Rada Mihalcea, University of Michigan, USA
Local Arrangements Chair
Priscilla Rasmussen, ACL Business Manager
Program Committee Co-chairs
Joyce Chai, Michigan State University, USA
Anoop Sarkar, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Workshop Co-chairs
Cornelia Caragea, University of North Texas, USA
Bing Liu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Tutorial Co-chairs
Yang Liu, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Thamar Solorio, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Student Research Workshop Co-chairs
Student Co-chairs
Shibamouli Lahiri, University of Michigan, USA
Karen Mazidi, University of North Texas, USA
Alisa Zhila, Instituto Politécnico Nacional (National Polytechnic Institute), Mexico
Faculty Advisors
Diana Inkpen, University of Ottawa, Canada
Smaranda Muresan, Columbia University, USA
Demo Co-chairs
Matt Gerber, University of Virginia, USA
Catherine Havasi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA


Prompt:
logy, USA
Finley Lacatusu, Language Computer Corporation, USA
Student Volunteer Coordinator
Annie Louis, University of Edinburgh, UK
Reviewing Coordinators
Mark Dredze, Johns Hopkins University
Jiang Guo, Harbin Institute of Technology
Local Sponsorship Chair
Kevin B. Cohen, University of Colorado, USA
Publicity Chair
Saif M. Mohammad, National Research Council Canada
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Publication Co-chairs
Matt Post, John Hopkins University, USA
Adam Lopez, University of Edinburgh, UK
Conference Handbook Editor
Matt Post, Johns Hopkins University
Website Chair
Peter Ljunglöf, University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Business Manager
Priscilla Rasmussen
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Program Committee
Program Committee Co-chairs
Joyce Chai, Michigan State University, USA
Anoop Sarkar, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Area Chairs
Dialogue and Interactive Systems
Jason D. Williams, Microsoft Research
Discourse and Pragmatics
Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania


Prompt:
University of Pennsylvania
Vincent Ng, University of Texas at Dallas
Generation and Summarization
Chris Callison-Burch, University of Pennsylvania
Fei Liu, Carnegie Mellon University
Information Extraction and Question Answering
Alan Ritter, The Ohio State University
Bowen Zhou, IBM Research
Information Retrieval
David Smith, Northeastern University
Language and Vision
Julia Hockenmaier, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Language Resources and Evaluation
Will Lewis, Microsoft Research
Sameer Pradhan, Harvard University
Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Aspects of CL
William Schuler, The Ohio State University
Machine Learning for NLP
Amarnag Subramanya, Google Research
Tong Zhang, Baidu Inc. and Rutgers University
Machine Translation
Bill Byrne, Cambridge University
Hany Hassan, Microsoft Research
Kevin Knight, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
Haitao Mi, IBM Research
NLP for Web, Social Media and Social Sciences


Prompt:
Sciences
Brendan O’Connor, University of Massachusetts
Philip Resnik, University of Maryland
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NLP-enabled Technology
Richard Socher, Stanford University
Phonology, Morphology, and Word Segmentation
Sami Virpioja, Lingsoft and Aalto University
Semantics
Dipanjan Das, Google
William Dolan, Microsoft Research
Luke Zettlemoyer, University of Washington
Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
Saif M. Mohammad, National Research Council Canada
Jerry Zhu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Spoken Language Processing
Xiaodong He, Microsoft Research
Tagging, Chunking, Syntax, and Parsing
Noah Smith, Carnegie Mellon University
Yue Zhang, Singapore University of Technology and Design
Text Categorization and Topic Models
Jordan Boyd-Graber, University of Colorado at Boulder
David Mimno, Cornell University
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Primary Reviewers
The list of all reviewers for NAACL HLT 2015. The area chairs also picked the best reviewers in their


Prompt:
in their
track. These best reviewers are marked with an asterisk in the list which is alphabetical on the last
name. Multiple asterisks mean that multiple area chairs chose that reviewer to be the best in their track.
Amjad Abu-Jbara, Mikhail Ageev, Eneko Agirre, *Gregory Aist, Jan Alexandersson, *James Allan,
Jesse Anderton, Jacob Andreas, Nicholas Andrews, Gabor Angeli, *Yoav Artzi, Nicholas Asher, Javed
Aslam, Michael Auli, amittai axelrod.
Anton Bakalov, Kirk Baker, *Timothy Baldwin, Miguel Ballesteros, David Bamman, *Srinivas Banga-
lore, *Mohit Bansal, *Marco Baroni, Roberto Basili, Daniel Bauer, Beata Beigman Klebanov, *Emily
M. Bender, Michael Bendersky, Jonathan Berant, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Sabine Bergler, Delphine
Bernhard, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, *Klinton Bicknell, Dan Bikel, Steven Bird, Anders Björkelund,
*Graeme Blackwood, Eduardo Blanco, John Blitzer, Nathan Bodenstab, Bernd Bohnet, Johan Bos,


Prompt:
Bernd Bohnet, Johan Bos,
Alexandre Bouchard, Kristy Boyer, Chris Brew, *Chris Brockett, Paul Buitelaar, Wray Buntine, *David
Burkett, *Benjamin Börschinger.
Aoife Cahill, Nicoletta Calzolari, Marine Carpuat, Xavier Carreras, Marc-Allen Cartright, Damir Cavar,
Asli Celikyilmaz, *Daniel Cer, Nathanael Chambers, Ming-Wei Chang, Wanxiang Che, Boxing Chen,
Hsin-Hsi Chen, Chen Chen, Wenliang Chen, *Colin Cherry, *Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, *David Chiang,
Christian Chiarcos, Jinho D. Choi, *Yejin Choi, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Christopher Cieri, Philipp Cimi-
ano, *Stephen Clark, *Jonathan Clark, Martin Cmejrek, Shay B. Cohen, Trevor Cohn, *John Conroy,
Paul Cook, Dan Cristea, Peter Culicover, Aron Culotta.
Robert Daland, Jeff Dalton, Pradipto Das, *Hal Daumé III, Adrià de Gispert, Vera Demberg, *Steve
DeNeefe, Pascal Denis, Leon Derczynski, David DeVault, *Jacob Devlin, *Barbara Di Eugenio, Mona
Diab, *Laura Dietz, *Doug Downey, Gabriel Doyle, Eduard Dragut, Mark Dredze, Markus Dreyer, Lan


Prompt:
Markus Dreyer, Lan
Du, *Kevin Duh, Ewan Dunbar, *Greg Durrett, Chris Dyer.
Sauleh Eetemadi, Markus Egg, Koji Eguchi, Patrick Ehlen, Andreas Eisele, Jacob Eisenstein, Jason
Eisner, Desmond Elliott, Tamer Elsayed, *Micha Elsner, Ahmad Emami, *Katrin Erk.
Anthony Fader, James Fan, *Manaal Faruqui, Afsaneh Fazly, Marcello Federico, *Christian Feder-
mann, Yang Feng, Vanessa Wei Feng, Minwei Feng, *Katja Filippova, Nicholas FitzGerald, Jeffrey
Flanigan, Radu Florian, Sandiway Fong, *George Foster, Jennifer Foster, Diego Frassinelli.
**Michel Galley, Michael Gamon, Sudeep Gandhe, Juri Ganitkevitch, *Qin Gao, *Claire Gardent,
Milica Gasic, Niyu Ge, George Giannakopoulos, Daniel Gildea, *Kevin Gimpel, Filip Ginter, *Roxana
Girju, Peter B. Golbus, Yoav Goldberg, Dan Goldwasser, Sharon Goldwater, Jeff Good, Kyle Gorman,
Cyril Goutte, Joao Graca, Stephan Greene, Edward Grefenstette, Stig-Arne Grönroos, Weiwei Guo,
Iryna Gurevych, *Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez.


Prompt:
*Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez.
Nizar Habash, Eva Hajicova, John Hale, Keith Hall, *David Hall, Michael Hammond, *Sanda Harabagiu,
*Eva Hasler, Claudia Hauff, Kenneth Heaﬁeld, John Henderson, Aurélie Herbelot, Jack Hessel, Der-
rick Higgins, Julia Hirschberg, *Graeme Hirst, Anna Hjalmarsson, Micah Hodosh, *Dirk Hovy, Eduard
Hovy, *Yuening Hu, Zhongqiang Huang, Minlie Huang, Liang Huang, Ruihong Huang, *Mans Hulden,
Rebecca Hwa.
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Gonzalo Iglesias, Ryu Iida, Diana Inkpen, Amy Isard, Abe Ittycheriah.
Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi, *Jing Jiang, Richard Johansson, Mark Johnson, *Michael Johnston, Shaﬁq
Joty, Dan Jurafsky, *David Jurgens.
*Min-Yen Kan, Pallika Kanani, *Saurabh Kataria, Daisuke Kawahara, *Andrew Kehler, *Frank Keller,
Svetlana Kiritchenko, Alexandre Klementiev, Alistair Knott, Philipp Koehn, Oskar Kohonen, Kazunori
Komatani, Terry Koo, Anna Korhonen, Alexander Kotov, Zornitsa Kozareva, Jayant Krishnamurthy,


Prompt:
Jayant Krishnamurthy,
Kriste Krstovski, Canasai Kruengkrai, Lun-Wei Ku, *Marco Kuhlmann, *Roland Kuhn, Shankar Ku-
mar, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, *Tom Kwiatkowski.
Igor Labutov, D Terence Langendoen, *Guy Lapalme, **Mirella Lapata, Jey Han Lau, *Alon Lavie,
*Hung-yi Lee, Sungjin Lee, Yoong Keok Lee, Moontae Lee, Maider Lehr, Tao Lei, Alessandro Lenci,
*Omer Levy, Shoushan Li, Fangtao Li, Jiwei Li, Junyi Jessy Li, Jinyu Li, Percy Liang, Mark Liberman,
*Shou-de Lin, *Chin-Yew Lin, Xiao Ling, *Yang Liu, Lemao Liu, Jingjing Liu, Qun Liu, *Yang Liu,
Adam Lopez, *Annie Louis, Bin Lu, Xiaoqiang Luo, Thang Luong.
Wei-Yun Ma, *Andrew Maas, Wolfgang Macherey, Nitin Madnani, Suresh Manandhar, Gideon Mann,
*Christopher D. Manning, *Daniel Marcu, Katja Markert, André F. T. Martins, Yuval Marton, Sameer
Maskey, *Michael Maxwell, Diana Maynard, Diana McCarthy, David McClosky, Ryan McDonald,
*Bridget McInnes, Louise McNally, *Arul Menezes, Florian Metze, Timothy Miller, Eleni Miltsakaki,


Prompt:
Eleni Miltsakaki,
*Margaret Mitchell, Yusuke Miyao, Samaneh Moghaddam, Karo Moilanen, Christof Monz, *Taesun
Moon, *Robert Moore, Roser Morante, Alessandro Moschitti, *Robert Munro, Brian Murphy.
Mikio Nakano, Preslav Nakov, Roberto Navigli, *Graham Neubig, Guenter Neumann, Hwee Tou Ng,
Viet-An Nguyen, Malvina Nissim, Joakim Nivre.
Alice Oh, *Manabu Okumura, Miles Osborne, Myle Ott, Karolina Owczarzak.
Ulrike Pado, *Alexis Palmer, *Martha Palmer, Sinno J. Pan, Siddharth Patwardhan, Michael J. Paul,
Virgil Pavlu, *Ted Pedersen, Gerald Penn, Jose Manuel Perea-Ortega, Slav Petrov, Olivier Pietquin,
Tommi Pirinen, Emily Pitler, Massimo Poesio, Hoifung Poon, *Andrei Popescu-Belis, Matt Post, Emily
Prud’hommeaux, Stephen Pulman, Matthew Purver.
Xian Qian, *Chris Quirk.
Altaf Rahman, Owen Rambow, Antoine Raux, Sujith Ravi, Kyle Rawlins, Siva Reddy, Roi Reichart,
David Reitter, Sebastian Riedel, Jason Riesa, Stefan Riezler, German Rigau, *Ellen Riloff, *Laura


Prompt:
*Ellen Riloff, *Laura
Rimell, *Eric Ringger, *Brian Roark, Kirk Roberts, Hannah Rohde, Carolyn Rose, Andrew Rosenberg,
Sara Rosenthal, Paolo Rosso, *Michael Roth, Teemu Ruokolainen, Irene Russo.
*Kenji Sagae, Alicia Sagae, Saurav Sahay, Rajhans Samdani, *Murat Saraclar, *Giorgio Satta, Asad
Sayeed, David Schlangen, Nathan Schneider, Alexandra Schoﬁeld, *Lane Schwartz, H. Andrew Schwartz,
Holger Schwenk, Hendra Setiawan, Izhak Shafran, Ekaterina Shutova, Khalil Sima’an, Sameer Singh,
*Kairit Sirts, Gabriel Skantze, Linfeng Song, Caroline Sporleder, Vivek Srikumar, Manfred Stede,
Mark Steedman, Amanda Stent, Brandon Stewart, Veselin Stoyanov, Weiwei Sun, *Mihai Surdeanu,
Anders Søgaard.
Partha P. Talukdar, *Joel Tetreault, *Kapil Thadani, Jörg Tiedemann, Christoph Tillmann, Ivan Titov,
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*Kristina Toutanova, David Traum, Reut Tsarfaty, Oren Tsur, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, *Peter Turney,
*Oscar Täckström.
Jakob Uszkoreit.


Prompt:
Jakob Uszkoreit.
Tim Van de Cruys, *Benjamin Van Durme, **Lucy Vanderwende, Yannick Versley, Aline Villavicencio.
*Xiaojun Wan, *Stephen Wan, Haifeng Wang, Lidan Wang, Lu Wang, Zhiguo Wang, *William Yang
Wang, *Taro Watanabe, Andy Way, *Bonnie Webber, David Weir, David Weiss, *Michael White,
Janyce Wiebe, Michael Wiegand, Shuly Wintner, Andreas Witt, *Kam-Fai Wong, Kristian Woodsend.
*Fei Xia, Yunqing Xia, Bing Xiang, Tong Xiao, Peng Xu, Wei Xu, Jia Xu, Nianwen Xue.
Hui Yang, Bishan Yang, Muyun Yang, Yi Yang, *Xuchen Yao, Mahsa Yarmohammadi, *Wen-tau Yih,
Dani Yogatama, Jianxing Yu, *François Yvon.
Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Alessandra Zarcone, *Rabih Zbib, Richard Zens, Ke Zhai, Min Zhang, Lei
Zhang, Hao Zhang, Hai Zhao, Guodong Zhou, Xiaodan Zhu, Chengqing Zong, *Geoffrey Zweig.


Prompt:
Jakob Uszkoreit.
Tim Van de Cruys, *Benjamin Van Durme, **Lucy Vanderwende, Yannick Versley, Aline Villavicencio.
*Xiaojun Wan, *Stephen Wan, Haifeng Wang, Lidan Wang, Lu Wang, Zhiguo Wang, *William Yang
Wang, *Taro Watanabe, Andy Way, *Bonnie Webber, David Weir, David Weiss, *Michael White,
Janyce Wiebe, Michael Wiegand, Shuly Wintner, Andreas Witt, *Kam-Fai Wong, Kristian Woodsend.
*Fei Xia, Yunqing Xia, Bing Xiang, Tong Xiao, Peng Xu, Wei Xu, Jia Xu, Nianwen Xue.
Hui Yang, Bishan Yang, Muyun Yang, Yi Yang, *Xuchen Yao, Mahsa Yarmohammadi, *Wen-tau Yih,
Dani Yogatama, Jianxing Yu, *François Yvon.
Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Alessandra Zarcone, *Rabih Zbib, Richard Zens, Ke Zhai, Min Zhang, Lei
Zhang, Hao Zhang, Hai Zhao, Guodong Zhou, Xiaodan Zhu, Chengqing Zong, *Geoffrey Zweig.
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Prompt:
Organizing Committee
General Chair
Kevin Knight, USC Information Sciences Institute
Program Co-chairs
Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania
Owen Rambow, Columbia University
Workshop Co-chairs
Radu Soricut, Google
Adrià de Gispert, SDL
Local Sponsorship Chair
Julie Medero, Harvey Mudd College
Tutorial Co-chairs
Mohit Bansal, TTI Chicago
Alexander M. Rush, Harvard University
Demonstration Co-chairs
Mark Finlayson, Florida International University
Sravana Reddy, Wellesley College
John DeNero, University of California, Berkeley
Publication Co-chairs
Adam Lopez, University of Edinburgh
Margaret Mitchell, Microsoft Research
Local Arrangements Chair
Priscilla Rasmussen, ACL Business Manager
Student Research Workshop Co-chairs
Student Co-chairs
Jacob Andreas, University of California, Berkeley
Eunsol Choi, University of Washington
Angeliki Lazaridou, University of Trento
Faculty Advisors
Jacob Eisenstein, Georgia Tech
Nianwen Xue, Brandeis University
Publicity Chair


Prompt:
Publicity Chair
Wei Xu, University of Pennsylvania
Social Media Chair
Jonathan May, USC Information Sciences Institute
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Website Chair
Jason Riesa, Google
Student Volunteer Coordinator
Aliya Deri, USC Information Sciences Institute
x

Program Committee
Program Co-chairs
Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania
Owen Rambow, Columbia University
Area Chairs
Mohit Bansal, TTI-Chicago
Regina Barzilay, MIT
Eduardo Blanco, University of North Texas
Asli Celikyilmaz, Microsoft
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Cornell University
Markus Dreyer, Amazon
Chris Dyer, Carnegie Mellon University
Jacob Eisenstein, Georgia Institute of Technology
Micha Elsner, The Ohio State University
Eric Fosler-Lussier, The Ohio State University
Alexander Fraser, University of Munich
Michel Galley, Microsoft Research
Kevin Gimpel, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Microsoft Research
Helen Hastie, Heriot-Watt University
Yulan He, Aston University
Dirk Hovy, University of Copenhagen


Prompt:
University of Copenhagen
Heng Ji, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Jing Jiang, Singapore Management University
Annie Louis, University of Essex
Chin-Yew Lin, Microsoft Research
Daniel Marcu, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
Margaret Mitchell, Microsoft Research
Alessandro Moschitti, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU
Hwee Tou Ng, National University of Singapore
Viet-An Nguyen, Facebook
Mari Ostendorf, University of Washington
Marius Pasca, Google
Slav Petrov, Google
Dan Roth, University of Illinois
Alexander Rush, Harvard University
Kenji Sagae, KITT.AI
Giorgio Satta, University of Padua
Hinrich Schuetze, LMU Munich
William Schuler, the Ohio State University
Mihai Surdeanu, University of Arizona
Kristina Toutanova, Microsoft Research
Byron Wallace, University of Texas at Austin
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Xiaojun Wan, Peking University
Furu Wei, Microsoft Research
Dekai Wu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Fei Xia, University of Washington
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Reviewers


Prompt:
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Reviewers
Omri Abend, Amjad Abu-Jbara, Apoorv Agarwal, Eneko Agirre, Željko Agi´c, Ahmet Aker, Yaser
Al-Onaizan, Nikolaos Aletras, Enrique Alfonseca, Alexandre Allauzen, Silvio Amir, Waleed Ammar,
Sophia Ananiadou, Daniel Andrade, Jacob Andreas, Nicholas Andrews, Ion Androutsopoulos, Gabor
Angeli, Emilia Apostolova, Yoav Artzi, Masayuki Asahara, Nicholas Asher, Necip Fazil Ayan.
Tyler Baldwin, Miguel Ballesteros, David Bamman, Rafael E. Banchs, Ritwik Banerjee, Srinivas Ban-
galore, Denilson Barbosa, Marco Baroni, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Roberto Basili, Daniel Bauer, Beata
Beigman Klebanov, Charley Beller, Emily M. Bender, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Raffaella Bernardi,
Steven Bethard, Klinton Bicknell, Chris Biemann, Ann Bies, Or Biran, Alexandra Birch, Arianna
Bisazza, Yonatan Bisk, Prakhar Biyani, Graeme Blackwood, Eduardo Blanco, Bernd Bohnet, Ondˇrej
Bojar, Gemma Boleda, Danushka Bollegala, Kalina Bontcheva, Johan Bos, Florian Boudin, Fethi


Prompt:
Florian Boudin, Fethi
Bougares, David Bracewell, Fabienne Braune, Ted Briscoe, Chris Brockett, Julian Brooke, Paul Buite-
laar, David Burkett, Jill Burstein, Benjamin Börschinger.
Aoife Cahill, Chris Callison-Burch, José Camacho-Collados, Marie Candito, Yunbo Cao, Ziqiang Cao,
Fabienne Cap, Cornelia Caragea, John Carroll, Francisco Casacuberta, Taylor Cassidy, Vittorio Castelli,
Daniel Cer, Joyce Chai, Yllias Chali, Nathanael Chambers, Kai-Wei Chang, Ming-Wei Chang, Angel
Chang, Wanxiang Che, Chen Chen, Bin Chen, Boxing Chen, Yun-Nung Chen, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Xinchi
Chen, Zhiyuan Chen, Qingcai Chen, Yubo Chen, Wenliang Chen, Colin Cherry, Jackie Chi Kit Che-
ung, David Chiang, Hai Leong Chieu, Laura Chiticariu, Do Kook Choe, Yejin Choi, Jinho D. Choi,
Sumit Chopra, Christos Christodoulopoulos, Grzegorz Chrupała, Jason Chuang, Tagyoung Chung,
Ken Church, Philipp Cimiano, Alina Maria Ciobanu, Jonathan Clark, Martin Cmejrek, Shay B. Co-


Prompt:
Martin Cmejrek, Shay B. Co-
hen, Trevor Cohn, Nigel Collier, Matthieu Constant, Paul Cook, Marta R. Costa-jussà, Ryan Cotterell,
Benoit Crabbé, Danilo Croce, Heriberto Cuayahuitl.
Jennifer D’Souza, Giovanni Da San Martino, Daniel Dahlmeier, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil,
Falavigna Daniele, Kareem Darwish, Dipanjan Das, Pradeep Dasigi, Hal Daumé III, Johannes Daxen-
berger, Adrià de Gispert, Eric De La Clergerie, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Gerard de Melo, Luciano
Del Corro, Vera Demberg, John DeNero, Lingjia Deng, Li Deng, Pascal Denis, Tejaswini Deoskar,
José G. C. de Souza, Nina Dethlefs, Jacob Devlin, Barbara Di Eugenio, Mona Diab, Liviu P. Dinu,
Georgiana Dinu, Jesse Dodge, Li Dong, Daxiang Dong, Doug Downey, Gabriel Doyle, Mark Dras, Lan
Du, Nan Duan, Kevin Duh, Long Duong, Nadir Durrani, Greg Durrett, Marc Dymetman.
Judith Eckle-Kohler, Steffen Eger, Vladimir Eidelman, Jason Eisner, Michael Elhadad, Desmond El-
liott, Ramy Eskander.


Prompt:
liott, Ramy Eskander.
James Fan, Hao Fang, Stefano Faralli, Richárd Farkas, Manaal Faruqui, Marcello Federico, Minwei
Feng, Yansong Feng, Francis Ferraro, Olivier Ferret, Simone Filice, Katja Filippova, Radu Florian,
Mikel Forcada, George Foster, James Foulds, Lea Frermann, Annemarie Friedrich, Akinori Fujino,
Fumiyo Fukumoto.
Robert Gaizauskas, Kuzman Ganchev, Debasis Ganguly, Jianfeng Gao, Claire Gardent, Matt Gardner,
Dan Garrette, Guillermo Garrido, Milica Gasic, Tao Ge, Dmitriy Genzel, Ulrich Germann, Daniel
Gildea, Lee Giles, Alﬁo Gliozzo, Yoav Goldberg, Dan Goldwasser, Isao Goto, Pawan Goyal, Yvette
Graham, Edouard Grave, Weiwei Guo, Yufan Guo, Jiang Guo, Hongyu Guo, Iryna Gurevych, Francisco
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Guzmàn, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez.
Barry Haddow, Matthias Hagen, Udo Hahn, John Hale, David Hall, Keith Hall, Xianpei Han, Sanda
Harabagiu, Christian Hardmeier, Kazi Saidul Hasan, Sadid A. Hasan, Mohammed Hasanuzzaman,


Prompt:
Mohammed Hasanuzzaman,
Hany Hassan, Hua He, He He, Yifan He, Zhongjun He, Kenneth Heaﬁeld, Michael Heilman, Karl
Moritz Hermann, Ulf Hermjakob, Felix Hieber, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Erhard Hinrichs, Tsutomu Hi-
rao, Kai Hong, Yu Hong, Mark Hopkins, Yufang Hou, Yuening Hu, Ruihong Huang, Hen-Hsen Huang,
Songfang Huang, Minlie Huang, Xuanjing Huang, Shujian Huang, Fei Huang, Hongzhao Huang, Mans
Hulden, Rebecca Hwa, Seung-won Hwang.
Ryu Iida, Kenji Imamura, Abe Ittycheriah, Mohit Iyyer.
Minwoo Jeong, Rahul Jha, Yangfeng Ji, Donghong Ji, Wenbin Jiang, Hui Jiang, Anders Johannsen,
Richard Johansson, Gareth Jones, Mahesh Joshi, Shaﬁq Joty, Dan Jurafsky, David Jurgens.
Nobuhiro Kaji, Min-Yen Kan, Dimitri Kartsaklis, David Kauchak, Daisuke Kawahara, Anna Kazant-
seva, Simon Keizer, Frank Keller, Casey Kennington, Mitesh M. Khapra, Douwe Kiela, Seokhwan Kim,
Young-Bum Kim, Katrin Kirchhoff, Svetlana Kiritchenko, Dietrich Klakow, Alexandre Klementiev,


Prompt:
Alexandre Klementiev,
Julien Kloetzer, Kevin Knight, Hayato Kobayashi, Philipp Koehn, Varada Kolhatkar, Mamoru Komachi,
Grzegorz Kondrak, Lingpeng Kong, Fang Kong, Ioannis Konstas, Valia Kordoni, Anna Korhonen, Yan-
nis Korkontzelos, Zornitsa Kozareva, Mikhail Kozhevnikov, Emiel Krahmer, Jayant Krishnamurthy,
Marco Kuhlmann, Roland Kuhn, Shankar Kumar, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Sadao Kurohashi.
Siwei Lai, Wai Lam, Vasileios Lampos, Phillippe Langlais, Ni Lao, Mirella Lapata, Jey Han Lau, An-
geliki Lazaridou, Joseph Le Roux, Kenton Lee, John Lee, Young-Suk Lee, Tao Lei, Johannes Leveling,
Tomer Levinboim, Rivka Levitan, Omer Levy, Mike Lewis, Peifeng Li, Xiaoli Li, Junhui Li, Hang Li,
Sheng Li, Yanran Li, Binyang Li, Chen Li, Fangtao Li, Junyi Jessy Li, Jiwei Li, Peng Li, Chin-Yew Lin,
Chu-Cheng Lin, Wang Ling, Diane Litman, Marina Litvak, Bing Liu, Yang Liu, Shujie Liu, Kang Liu,
Ting Liu, Qun Liu, Chi-kiu Lo, Adam Lopez, Wei Lu, Michal Lukasik, Xiaoqiang Luo, Minh-Thang
Luong.


Prompt:
Minh-Thang
Luong.
Yanjun Ma, Xuezhe Ma, Ji Ma, Wolfgang Macherey, Klaus Macherey, Nitin Madnani, Wolfgang Maier,
Andreas Maletti, Suresh Manandhar, Christopher D. Manning, David Mareˇcek, Benjamin Marie, Katja
Markert, André F. T. Martins, Yuval Marton, Shigeki Matsubara, Mausam, Jonathan May, Diana Mc-
Carthy, David McClosky, Ryan McDonald, Kathy McKeown, Yashar Mehdad, Oren Melamud, Arul
Menezes, Fandong Meng, Haitao Mi, Rada Mihalcea, Timothy Miller, Bonan Min, Einat Minkov, Mar-
garet Mitchell, Prasenjit Mitra, Makoto Miwa, Daichi Mochihashi, Behrang Mohit, Christof Monz,
Raymond Mooney, Shinsuke Mori, Véronique Moriceau, Emmanuel Morin, Hajime Morita, Lili Mou,
Arjun Mukherjee, Philippe Muller, Dragos Munteanu, Yugo Murawaki, Brian Murphy.
Masaaki Nagata, Ajay Nagesh, Iftekhar Naim, Ndapandula Nakashole, Preslav Nakov, Karthik Narasimhan,
Shashi Narayan, Alexis Nasr, Roberto Navigli, Mark-Jan Nederhof, Arvind Neelakantan, Matteo Ne-


Prompt:
Matteo Ne-
gri, Graham Neubig, Vincent Ng, Raymond W. M. Ng, Jun-Ping Ng, Dominick Ng, Dong Nguyen,
Thien Huu Nguyen, Garrett Nicolai, Massimo Nicosia, Vlad Niculae, Jian-Yun Nie, Hitoshi Nishikawa,
Joakim Nivre, Hiroshi Noji, Joel Nothman.
Timothy O’Donnell, Stephan Oepen, Kemal Oﬂazer, Jong-Hoon Oh, Kiyonori Ohtake, Naoaki Okazaki,
Manabu Okumura, Noam Ordan, Vicente Ordonez, Miles Osborne, Myle Ott, Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm.
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Martha Palmer, Siddharth Patwardhan, Michael J. Paul, Adam Pauls, Ellie Pavlick, Gerald Penn, Marco
Pennacchiotti, Nghia The Pham, Daniele Pighin, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, Barbara Plank, Tamara
Polajnar, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Andrei Popescu-Belis, Matt Post, Christopher Potts, Vinodkumar
Prabhakaran, Daniel Preo¸tiuc-Pietro, Emily Prud’hommeaux, Matthew Purver.
Ashequl Qadir, Behrang QasemiZadeh, Longhua Qian, Xian Qian, Lu Qin, Chris Quirk.
Will Radford, Preethi Raghavan, Altaf Rahman, Rohan Ramanath, Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar,


Prompt:
Sridhar,
Ari Rappoport, Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli, Marta Recasens, Sravana Reddy, Roi Reichart, Sebastian
Riedel, Martin Riedl, Jason Riesa, Verena Rieser, Stefan Riezler, German Rigau, Michael Riley, Ellen
Riloff, Eric Ringger, Alan Ritter, Brian Roark, Stephen Roller, Sophie Rosset, Paolo Rosso, Michael
Roth, Benjamin Roth, Johann Roturier, Alla Rozovskaya, Josef Ruppenhofer.
Kugatsu Sadamitsu, Markus Saers, Kenji Sagae, Horacio Saggion, Benoît Sagot, Hassan Sajjad, Bahar
Salehi, Avneesh Saluja, Ruhi Sarikaya, Anoop Sarkar, Ryohei Sasano, Asad Sayeed, Christian Scheible,
Helmut Schmid, Sabine Schulte im Walde, Roy Schwartz, Wolfgang Seeker, Nina Seemann, Satoshi
Sekine, Rico Sennrich, Hendra Setiawan, Izhak Shafran, Shuming Shi, Hiroyuki Shindo, Eyal Shnarch,
Ekaterina Shutova, Maryam Siahbani, Carina Silberer, Khe Chai Sim, Yanchuan Sim, Khalil Sima’an,
Sameer Singh, Noam Slonim, Jan Šnajder Thamar Solorio, Hyun-Je Song, Xuan Song, Radu Soricut,


Prompt:
Xuan Song, Radu Soricut,
Aitor Soroa, Lucia Specia, Caroline Sporleder, Richard Sproat, Vivek Srikumar, Asher Stern, Mark
Stevenson, Veselin Stoyanov, Carlo Strapparava, Karl Stratos, Tomek Strzalkowski, Jinsong Su, Keh-
Yih Su, Amarnag Subramanya, Xu Sun, Yoshimi Suzuki, Jun Suzuki, Hisami Suzuki, Stan Szpakowicz,
Anders Søgaard.
Hiroya Takamura, David Talbot, Partha Talukdar, Akihiro Tamura, Chenhao Tan, Xavier Tannier, Joel
Tetreault, Kapil Thadani, Stefan Thater, Sam Thomson, Jörg Tiedemann, Ivan Titov, Tomoki Toda,
Marc Tomlinson, Sara Tonelli, Kentaro Torisawa, Isabel Trancoso, Reut Tsarfaty, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka,
Yulia Tsvetkov, Zhaopeng Tu, Marco Turchi, Ferhan Ture, Oscar Täckström.
Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Raghavendra Udupa, Lyle Ungar, Masao Utiyama.
Tim Van de Cruys, Lonneke van der Plas, Benjamin Van Durme, Marten van Schijndel, Lucy Vander-
wende, Ashish Vaswani, Sriram Venkatapathy, David Vilar, Martin Villalba, Veronika Vincze, Andreas


Prompt:
Veronika Vincze, Andreas
Vlachos, Svitlana Volkova, Clare Voss, Ivan Vuli´c.
Henning Wachsmuth, Marilyn Walker, Tong Wang, Xiaolin Wang, Baoxun Wang, Yiou Wang, Zhiguo
Wang, Zhongqing Wang, William Yang Wang, Chang Wang, Hongning Wang, Leo Wanner, Taro
Watanabe, Andy Way, Wouter Weerkamp, Zhongyu Wei, Gerhard Weikum, David Weir, Michael
White, Michael Wiegand, Theresa Wilson, Shuly Wintner, Guillaume Wisniewski, Travis Wolfe, Kam-
Fai Wong, Jian Wu, Hua Wu, Joern Wuebker.
Rui Xia, Bing Xiang, Min Xiao, Xinyan Xiao, Tong Xiao, Shasha Xie, Deyi Xiong, Ruifeng Xu,
Wenduan Xu.
Ichiro Yamada, Elif Yamangil, Bishan Yang, Diyi Yang, Yaqin Yang, Min Yang, Wen-tau Yih, Wenpeng
Yin, Dani Yogatama, Naoki Yoshinaga, Dianhai Yu, Liang-Chih Yu, Dian Yu, Mo Yu, François Yvon.
Roberto Zamparelli, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Klaus Zechner, Daojian Zeng, Xiaodong Zeng, Richard
Zens, Torsten Zesch, Luke Zettlemoyer, Feifei Zhai, Jiajun Zhang, Wei Zhang, Min Zhang, Dongdong
xv


Prompt:
Min Zhang, Dongdong
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Zhang, Jianwen Zhang, Congle Zhang, Yongfeng Zhang, Dongyan Zhao, Bing Zhao, Yaqian Zhou,
Muhua Zhu, Imed Zitouni, Chengqing Zong, Bowei Zou, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Gözde Özbal.
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Best Reviewers
Yaser Al-Onaizan, Enrique Alfonseca, Daniel Andrade, Jacob Andreas, Ion Androutsopoulos, Gabor
Angeli.
David Bamman, Ritmiek Banerjee, Emily Bender, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Chris Biemann, Arianna
Bisazza, Graeme Blackwood, Gemma Boleda, Florian Boudin.
Jose Camacho-Collados, Marie Candito, Taylor Cassidy, Colin Cherry, Christos Christodopoulos, Alina
Maria Ciobanu, Jon Clark, Trevor Cohn, Danilo Croce.
Hal Daumé III, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Jose G. C. de Souza, John DeNero, Jacob Devlin, Doug
Downey, Gabe Doyle, Mark Dras, Greg Durrett.
Steffen Eger, Jason Eisner, Michael Elhadad.
Francis Ferraro, Mikel Forcada, James Foulds.
Matt Gardner, Dan Garrette, Yvette Graham, Dmitriy Genzel.
Barry Haddow, Matthias Hagen, David Hall, Mohammed Hasanuzzaman, Kai Hong.


Prompt:
Kai Hong.
Mohit Iyyer.
Yangfeng Ji, Anders Johannsen, Mahesh Joshi, Dan Jurafsky.
Dimitri Karsaklis, Daisuke Kawahara, Alexandre Klementiev, Grzegorz Kondrak, Ioannis Konstas,
Yannis Korkontzelos, Roland Kuhn, Shankar Kumar, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld.
Tomer Levinboim, Rivka Levitan, Omer Levy, Junyi Jessy Li.
Klaus Macherey, Wolfgang Macherey, Wolfgang Maier, Andreas Maletti, Christopher D. Manning,
Diana McCarthy, David McClosky, Lili Mou, Philippe Muller, Dragos Munteanu, Yugo Murawaki.
Masaki Nagaata, Ajay Nagesh, Mark-Jan Nederhof, Dominick Ng, Vincent Ng, Vlad Niculae, Jian-Yin
Nie, Joel Nothman.
Stephan Oepen, Myle Ott.
Adam Pauls, Daniele Pighin, Andrei Popescu Belis, Matt Post, Vinod Prabhakaran, Matt Purver.
Ashequl Qadir.
Rohan Ramanath, Jason Riesa, Verena Rieser, Eric Ringger, Brian Roark, Stephen Roller, Sophie Ros-
set.
Wolfgang Seeker, Thamar Solorio, Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, Vivek Srikumar, Jun Suzuki.


Prompt:
Vivek Srikumar, Jun Suzuki.
Akihiro Tamura, Joel Tetreault, Kapil Thadani, Ivan Titov, Marco Turchi.
Raghavendra Udupa.
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Clare Voss, Ivan Vulic.
Henning Wachsmuth, Marilyn Walker, Taro Watanabe, Wouter Weerkamp, Michael Wiegand.
Min Yang.


Prompt:
Vivek Srikumar, Jun Suzuki.
Akihiro Tamura, Joel Tetreault, Kapil Thadani, Ivan Titov, Marco Turchi.
Raghavendra Udupa.
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Clare Voss, Ivan Vulic.
Henning Wachsmuth, Marilyn Walker, Taro Watanabe, Wouter Weerkamp, Michael Wiegand.
Min Yang.
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Prompt:
Organizing Committee
General Chair
Marilyn Walker, University of California, Santa Cruz
Program Co-Chairs
Heng Ji, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Amanda Stent, Bloomberg
Industry Track Co-Chairs
Srinivas Bangalore, Interactions
Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Elemental Cognition
Yunyao Li, IBM
Demonstration Co-Chairs
Yang Liu, University of Texas at Dallas
Tim Paek, Apple
Manasi Patwardhan, Tata Consultancy Services Research, India
Student Research Workshop Co-Chairs
Chairs:
Silvio Ricardo Cordeiro, Aix-Marseille Université
Shereen Oraby, University of California, Santa Cruz
Umashanthi Pavalanathan, Georgia Institute of Technology
Kyeongmin Rim, Brandeis University
Faculty Advisors:
Swapna Somasundaran, ETS Princeton
Sam Bowman, New York University
Workshop Co-Chairs
Marie Meteer, Brandeis University
Jason Williams, Microsoft Research
Tutorial Co-Chairs
Mohit Bansal, University of North Carolina
Rebecca Passonneau, Pennsylvania State University
Publications Co-Chairs


Prompt:
Publications Co-Chairs
Stephanie Lukin, U.S. Army Research Laboratory
Margaret Mitchell, Google
Handbook Chair
Jonathan May, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute
Local Arrangements Chair
Priscilla Rasmussen, ACL
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Family-Friendly Program Co-Chairs
Chris Callison-Burch, University of Pennsylvania
Beth Hockey, Intel
International Sponsorships Co-Chairs
Alexis Palmer, University of North Texas
Jason Baldridge, Google
Local Sponsorships and Exhibits Co-Chairs
Kristy Hollingshead, Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition
Kristen Johnson, Purdue University
Parisa Kordjamshidi, Tulane University / Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
Publicity and Social Media Co-Chairs
Yonatan Bisk, University of Washington
Wei Xu, Ohio State University
Website Chair
Ying Lin, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Student Volunteer Coordinator
Lena Reed, University of California, Santa Cruz
Program Committee, Research Track
Area Chairs


Prompt:
Area Chairs
Cognitive Modeling/Psycholinguistics
Morteza Dehghani, University of Southern California
Kristy Hollingshead, Institute for Human & Machine Cognition
Dialogue and Interactive Systems
Yun-Nung (Vivian) Chen, National Taiwan University
Gabriel Skantze, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Discourse and Pragmatics
Jacob Eisenstein, Georgia Institute of Technology
Junyi (Jessy) Li, University of Texas at Austin
Annie Louis, University of Edinburgh
Yi Yang, Bloomberg
Generation
Dimitra Gkatzia, Edinburgh Napier University
Shashi Narayan, University of Edinburgh
Michael White, Ohio State University
Information Extraction
Mausam, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Dan Bikel, Google
Chia-Hui Chang, National Central University
Bonan Min, BBN
Aurélie Névéol, CNRS
x

Marius Pasca, Google
Hinrich Schütze, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Avirup Sil, IBM Research AI
Michael Strube, HITS gGmbH
Machine Learning for NLP
Chris Dyer, Google DeepMind
Ozan Irsoy, Bloomberg


Prompt:
Ozan Irsoy, Bloomberg
Tie-Yan Liu, Microsoft Research
Raymond Mooney, University of Texas at Austin
Machine Translation
Marine Carpuat, University of Maryland
Kyunghyun Cho, New York University
Daniel Marcu, Amazon
Taro Watanabe, Google
Deyi Xiong, Soochow University
NLP Applications
Jinho Choi, Emory University
Joel Tetreault, Grammarly
Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation
Jennifer Foster, Dublin City University
Barbara Plank, University of Groningen
Question Answering
Eugene Agichtein, Emory University
Hannaneh Hajishirzi, University of Washington
Idan Szpektor, Google
Semantics
Yoav Artzi, Cornell University
Mona Diab, George Washington University
Kevin Duh, Johns Hopkins University
Jonathan May, University of Southern California
Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Roi Reichart, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Dan Roth, University of Pennsylvania
Scott Wen-tau Yih, Allen Institute for Artiﬁcial Intelligence
Sentiment Analysis


Prompt:
Sentiment Analysis
Smaranda Muresan, Columbia University
Swapna Somasundaran, ETS Princeton
Social Media Analysis and Computational Social Science
Mark Dredze, Johns Hopkins University
Miles Osborne, Bloomberg
Alan Ritter, Ohio State University
Sara Rosenthal, IBM
William Yang Wang, University of California, Santa Barbara
Speech
Eric Fosler-Lussier, Ohio State University
Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Google
Mari Ostendorf, University of Washington
Summarization
George Giannakopoulos, NCSR “Demokritos"
Xiaojun Wan, Peking University
Lu Wang, Northeastern University
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Tagging, Chunking, Syntax and Parsing
Michael Collins, Columbia University
Yoav Goldberg, Bar Ilan University
Daisuke Kawahara, Kyoto University
Emily Pitler, Google
Anders Søgaard, University of Copenhagen
Aline Villavicencio, University of Essex / Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Text Mining
Kai-wei Chang, University of Virginia
Jing Jiang, Singapore Management University
Zornitsa Kozareva, Google


Prompt:
Zornitsa Kozareva, Google
Chin-Yew Lin, Microsoft Research Asia
Theory and Formalisms
David Chiang, University of Notre Dame
Daniel Gildea, University of Rochester
Giorgio Satta, University of Padua
Vision, Robotics and Other Grounding
Joyce Chai, Michigan State University
Vicente Ordonez, University of Virginia
Reviewers
Reviewers who are acknowledged by the program committee for providing one or more outstanding re-
views are listed in bold. Individuals who (also) served as secondary reviewers are marked with † and
those who (also) served as ad-hoc reviewers with *.
Mourad Abbas
Ahmed Abdelali
Asad Abdi
Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
Anne Abeille
Omri Abend
Abhishek Abhishek
Mohamed Abouelenien
José Abreu
Sallam Abualhaija
Amjad Abu-Jbara
Lasha Abzianidze
Oliver Adams
Gilles Adda
Yvonne Adesam
Stergos Afantenos
Naveed Afzal
Apoorv Agarwal
Swati Agarwal
Željko Agi´c
Eugene Agichtein
Manex Agirrezabal
Lars Ahrenberg
Salah Ait-Mokhtar
Yamen Ajjour †
Alan Akbik
Ahmet Aker
Cem Akkaya *


Prompt:
Ahmet Aker
Cem Akkaya *
Ahmad Al Sallab
Özge Alacam
Domagoj Alagi´c †
Sameh Alansary
Iñaki Alegria
Nikolaos Aletras
Beatrice Alex
Theodora Alexopoulou
Enrique Alfonseca
Ahmed Ali
Dimitris Alikaniotis
Hend Al-Khalifa
Mehdi Allahyari
Miltiadis Allamanis
James Allan
Alexandre Allauzen
Miguel A. Alonso
Omar Alonso
Laura Alonso Alemany
Abdulrahman Alosaimy
Rami Al-Rfou
Edgar Altszyler
Nora Al-Twairesh
Bharat Ram Ambati
Waleed Ammar*
Dimitra Anastasiou
Tim Anderson
Jacob Andreas
Nicholas Andrews
Ion Androutsopoulos
Anietie Andy
Gabor Angeli*
Marianna Apidianaki
Emilia Apostolova
Jun Araki
Masahiro Araki
Shlomo Argamon
Piyush Arora
Raman Arora
Sanjeev Arora
Masayuki Asahara
Elliott Ash
Nicholas Asher
Giuseppe Attardi xii

Aitziber Atutxa Salazar †
Isabelle Augenstein
Michael Auli
AiTi Aw
Amittai Axelrod
Wilker Aziz
Homa B. Hashemi
Collin Baker
Omid Bakhshandeh
Niranjan Balasubramanian
Timothy Baldwin
Tyler Baldwin
Kalika Bali
Miguel Ballesteros
Ramy Baly
David Bamman
Rafael E. Banchs


Prompt:
Rafael E. Banchs
Ritwik Banerjee
Mohit Bansal
Libby Barak
Denilson Barbosa
Alistair Baron
Marco Baroni
Alberto Barrón-Cedeño
Valerio Basile
Roberto Basili
Tanmay Basu
Daniel Bauer
Timo Baumann
Anshul Bawa †
John Bear
Frédéric Béchet
Barend Beekhuizen
Beata Beigman Klebanov
Yonatan Belinkov
Charley Beller
Anja Belz
Michael Bendersky
Jonathan Berant
Raffaella Bernardi
Delphine Bernhard
Yevgeni Berzak
Steven Bethard
Rahul Bhagat
Chandra Bhagavatula
Aditya Bhargava †
Pushpak Bhattacharyya
Chris Biemann
Ann Bies
Or Biran
Yonatan Bisk
Prakhar Biyani
Yuri Bizzoni †
Anders Björkelund
Philippe Blache
Alan W Black
Eduardo Blanco
Roi Blanco
Nate Blaylock
Reihane Boghrati*
Bernd Bohnet
Piotr Bojanowski
Ondˇrej Bojar
Danushka Bollegala
Marcel Bollmann
Kalina Bontcheva
Benjamin Börschinger
Florian Boudin
Fethi Bougares
Pierrette Bouillon
Gosse Bouma
Johan Boye
Kristy Boyer
David Bracewell
Ellen Breitholz
Chris Brew
Ted Briscoe
Chris Brockett
Julian Brooke
Pawel Budzianowski †
Paul Buitelaar