Prompt:
Tutorial Chairs:
McCarthy, Diana (University of Sussex, UK; dianam@sussex.ac.uk)
Zong, Chengqing (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; cqzong@gmail.com)
Workshop Chairs:
Lin, Jimmy (University of Maryland, USA; jimmylin@umd.edu)
Matsumoto, Yuji (NAIST, Japan; matsu@is.naist.jp)
Webmaster:
Dong, Minghui (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore; mhdong@i2r.a-star.edu.sg)
Registration:
Rasmussen, Priscilla(ACL; rasmusse@ptd.net)
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Program Committee
Program Chairs:
Su, Jian (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore; sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg)
Wiebe, Janyce (University of Pittsburgh, USA; janycewiebe@gmail.com)
Area Chairs:
Agirre, Eneko (University of Basque Country, Spain; e.agirre@ehu.es)
Ananiadou, Sophia (University of Manchester, UK; sophia.ananiadou@manchester.ac.uk)
Belz, Anja (University of Brighton, UK; a.s.belz@itri.brighton.ac.uk)
Carenini, Giuseppe (University of British Columbia, Canada; carenini@cs.ubc.ca)


Prompt:
Canada; carenini@cs.ubc.ca)
Chen, Hsin-Hsi (National Taiwan University, Taiwan, hh_chen@csie.ntu.edu.tw)
Chen, Keh-Jiann (Sinica, Taiwan, kchen@iis.sinica.edu.tw)
Curran, James (University of Sydney, Australia; james@it.usyd.edu.au)
Gao, Jian Feng (MSR, USA; jfgao@microsoft.com)
Harabagiu, Sanda (University of Texas at Dallas, USA, sanda@hlt.utdallas.edu)
Koehn, Philipp (University of Edinburgh, UK; pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk)
Kondrak, Grzegorz (University of Alberta, Canada; kondrak@cs.ualberta.ca)
Meng, Helen Mei-Ling (Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK; hmmeng@se.cuhk.edu.hk )
Mihalcea, Rada (University of North Texas, USA; rada@cs.unt.edu)
Poesio, Massimo(University of Trento, Italy; poesio@disi.unitn.it)
Riloff, Ellen (University of Utah, USA; riloff@cs.utah.edu)
Sekine, Satoshi (NewYork University, USA; sekine@cs.nyu.edu)
Smith, Noah (CMU, USA; nasmith@cs.cmu.edu)
Strube, Michael (EML Research, Germany; strube@eml-research.de)
Suzuki, Jun (NTT, Japan; jun@cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp)


Prompt:
tt.co.jp)
Wang, Hai Feng (Toshiba, China; wanghaifeng@rdc.toshiba.com.cn)
Program Committee Members:
Eugene Agichtein, Gregory Aist, Salah Ait-Mokhtar, Enrique Alfonseca, Yaser Al-Onaizan,
Sophia Ananiadou, Alina Andreevskaia, Ion Androutsopoulos, Doug Appelt, Xabier Arregi,
Abhishek Arun, Masayuki Asahara, Jordi Atserias, Michaela Atterer
Jason Baldridge, Srinivas Bangalore, Michele Banko, Marco Baroni, Regina Barzilay,
Roberto Basili, Sabine Bergler, Shane Bergsma, Steven Bethard, Pushpak Bhattacharyya,
Mikhail Bilenko, Philippe Blache, Alan Black, Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, John Blitzer, Phil
Blunsom, Philip Blunsom, Bernd Bohnet, Johan Bos, Pierre Boullier, Thorsten Brants, Eric
Breck, Chris Brew, Ted Briscoe, Chris Brockett, Paul Buitelaar, Razvan Bunescu, Harry Bunt,
Stephan Busemann, Donna Byron
Aoife Cahill, Lynne Cahill Cahill, Nicoletta Calzolari, Nick Campbell, Claire Cardie,
Giuseppe Carenini, Michael Carl, Xavier Carreras, John Carroll, Francisco Casacuberta, Jon


Prompt:
Francisco Casacuberta, Jon
Chamberlain, Ciprian Chelba, John Chen, Keh-Jiann Chen, Pu-Jen Cheng, Colin Cherry,
David Chiang, Key-Sun Choi, Yejin Choi, Monojit Choudhury, Tat-Seng Chua, Jennifer Chu-
Carroll, Philip Cimiano, Stephen Clark, James Clarke, Kevin Cohen, Shay Cohen, Trevor
Cohn, Nigel Collier, John Conroy, Mark Craven, Dan Cristea, Andras Csomai, Silviu-
PetrCucerzan, Hang Cui, Aron Culotta, James Curran
Robert Dale, Hal Daume, Eric de la Clergerie, Maarten de Rijke, Vera Demberg, Dina
Demner, Dina Demner-Fushman, John DeNero, Li Deng, Yonggang Deng, Pascal Denis, Ann
Devitt, Mona Diab, Arantza Diaz, Bill Dolan, John Dowding, Mark Dras, Mark Dredze, Jasha
Droppo, Amit Dubey, Kevin Duh, Kenneth Dwyer, Chris Dyer
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Phil Edmonds, Andreas Eisele, Jacob Eisenstein, Jason Eisner, Michael Elhadad, Mark Ellison,
Micha Elsner, Katrin Erk, Andrea Esuli, Marc Ettlinger, Stefan Evert
Ronen Feldman, Christiane Fellbaum, Raquel Fernandez, Elena Filatova, Katja Filippova,


Prompt:
Katja Filippova,
Jenny Finkel, Dan Flickinger, Radu Florian, Juliane Fluck, Eric Fosler-Lussier, George Foster,
Alex Fraser, Marjorie Freedman, Carol Friedman, Qiang Fu
Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Rob Gaizauskas, Michael Gamon, Albert Gatt, Ulrich Germann, Daniel
Gildea, Jesus Gimenez, Jonathan GInzburg, Roxana Girju, Amir Globerson, Andrew
Goldberg, John Goldsmith, Sharon Goldwater, Julio Gonzalo, Ralph Grishman, Rodrigo
Guido, Tunga Gungor, Iryna Gurevych
Stephanie Haas, Aria Haghighi, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Keith Hall, John Hansen, Sanda
Harabagiu, Donna Harman, Saša Hasan, Samer Hassan, Timothy Hazen, Xiaodong He, Jeff
Heinz, James Henderson, John Henderson, Andrew Hickl, Erhard Hinrichs, Keikichi Hirose,
Julia Hirschberg, Graeme Hirst, Hieu Hoang, Julia Hockenmaier, Beth Ann Hockey, Mark
Hopkins, Veronique Hoste, Churen Huang, Liang Huang, Sarmad Hussain, Rebecca Hwa,
Mei-Yuh Hwang
Nancy Ide, Ryu Iida, Diana Inkpen, Kentaro Inui, Hitoshi Isahara, Abe Ittycheriah, Tatsuya
Izuha


Prompt:
Tatsuya
Izuha
Heng Ji, Sittichai Jiampojamarn, Jing Jiang, Mark Johnson, Doug Jones, Gareth Jones
Mijail Kabadjov, Laura Kallmeyer, Nanda Kambhatla, Hiroshi Kanayama, Nikiforos
Karamanis, Tsuneaki Kato, Hisashi Kawai, Junichi Kazama, Frank Keller, Andre Kempe,
Brett Kessler, Mitesh Khapra, Bernd Kiefer, Adam Kilgarriff, Brian Kingsbury, James Kirby,
Ewan Klein, Alexandre Klementiev, Kevin Knight, Rob Koeling, Terry Koo, Moshe Koppel,
Wessel Kraaij, Emiel Krahmer, Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, Lun-Wei Ku, Sandra Kuebler,
Marco Kuhlmann, Jonas Kuhn, Seth Kulick, Akira Kumano, Shankar Kumar, A. Kumaran,
June-Jei Kuo, Sadao Kurohashi, Kui-Lam Kwok
Philippe Langlais, Mirella Lapata, Alberto Lavelli, Gary Lee, Lillian Lee, Yoong Keok Lee,
Yue-Shi Lee, Haizhou Li, Hang Li, Xiaolong Li, Percy Liang, Elizabeth Liddy, Dekang Lin,
Lucian Lita, Ken Litkowski, Diane Litman, Bing Liu, Qun Liu, Tie-Yan Liu, Yang Liu,
Zhanyi Liu, Adam Lopez, Xiaoqiang Luo, Yajuan Lv


Prompt:
Xiaoqiang Luo, Yajuan Lv
Yanjun Ma, Lluís Màrquez, Karin Müller, Bernardo Magnini, Brian Mak, Rob Malouf,
Gideon Mann, Daniel Marcu, Katja Markert, David Martínez, Andre Martins, Mstislav
Maslennikov, Tomoko Matsui, Yuji Matsumoto, Takuya Matsuzaki, Evgeny Matusov, Arne
Mauser, Diana McCarthy, David McClosky, Mark McConnville, Ryan McDonald, Michael
McTear, Qiaozhu Mei, Chris Mellish, Arul Menezes, Paola Merlo, Detmar Meurers, David
Mimno, Mandar Mitra, Vibhu Mittal, Yusuke Miyao, Daichi Mochihashi, Saif Mohammad,
Rajat Mohanty, Diego Molla-Aliod, Christian Monson, Simonetta Montemagni, Bob Moore,
Alex Morgan, Glyn Morrill, Alessandro Moschitti, Dragos Munteanu, Gabriel Murray, Sung
Hyon Myaeng
Vivi Nastase, Tetsuya Nasukawa, Roberto Navigli, Mark-Jan Nederhof, Ani Nenkova, John
Nerbonne, Hwee Tou Ng, Vincent Ng, Patrick Nguyen, Jian-Yun Nie, Zaiqing Nie, Takashi
Ninomiya, Joakim Nivre, Chikashi Nobata, David Novick, Adrian Novischi


Prompt:
Adrian Novischi
Franz Och, Stephan Oepen, Kemal Oflazer, Alice Oh, Jong-Hoon Oh, Daisuke Okanohara,
Naoaki Okazaki, Fredrik Olsson, Constantin Orasan, Miles Osborne, Jahna Otterbacher
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Tim Paek, Martha Palmer, Bo Pang, Patrick Pantel, Cecile Paris, Rebecca Passonneau,
Michael Paul, Matthias Paulik, Anselmo Peñas, Adam Pease, Ted Pedersen, Catherine
Pelachaud, Slav Petrov, Christopher Pinchak, Maja Popovic, Sameer Pradhan, John Prager,
Rashmi Prasad, Detlef Prescher, Stephen Pulman, Sampo Pyysalo
Long Qiu, Silvia Quarteroni, Chris Quirk
Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Lance Ramshaw, Giuseppe Riccardi, Verena
Rieser, German Rigau, Hae-Chang Rim, Brian Roark, James Rogers, Barbara Rosario,
Carolyn Rose, Antti-Veikk Rosti, Patrick Ruch, Marta Ruiz, Andrey Rzhetsky
Kenji Sagae, Horacio Saggion, Benoit Sagot, Tetsuya Sakai, Baskaran Sankaran, Murat
Saraclar, Ruhi Sarikaya, Yutaka Sasaki, Giorgio Satta, Anne Schiller, Helmut Schmid, Marc


Prompt:
Helmut Schmid, Marc
Schroeder, Holger Schwenk, Yohei Seki, Satoshi Sekine, Mike Seltzer, Jungyun Seo, Vijay
Shanker, Hagit Shatkay, Libin Shen, Nobuyuki Shimizu, Luo Si, Advaith Siddharthan, Candy
Sidner, Khalil Simaan, Michel Simard, Gabriel Skantze, David Smith, Noah Smith, Rion
Snow, Ian Soboroff, Swapna Somasundaran, Radu Soricut, Caroline Sporleder, Rohini Srihari,
Mark Steedman, Josef Steinberger, Amanda Stent, Mark Stevenson, Veselin Stoyanov, Carlo
Strapparava, Michael Strube, Tomek Strzalkowski, Jana Sukkarieh, Maoson Sun, Mihai
Surdeanu, Richard Sutcliffe, Stan Szpakowicz, Idan Szpektor
Maite Taboada, John Tait, Hiroya Takamura, David Talbot, Ben Taskar, Joel Tetreault,
Simone Teufel, Joerg Tiedemann, Christoph Tillmann, Ivan Titov, Roberto Togneri, Keiichi
Tokuda, Kristina Toutanova, Roy Tromble, Yuen-Hsien Tseng, Jun ’ ichi Tsujii, Yoshimasa
Tsuruoka, Dan Tufis, Gokhan Tur
Antal van den Bosch, Josef van Genabith, Keith Vander Linden, Sebastian Varges, Tony


Prompt:
Sebastian Varges, Tony
Veale, Ashish Venugopal, Paola Verlardi, Yannick Versley, David Vilar, Piek Vossen
Michael Walsh, Stephen Wan, Xiaojun Wan, Qin Wang, Shaojun Wang, Wei Wang, Xinglong
Wang, Taro Watanabe, Andy Way, Bonnie Webber, David Weir, Fuiliang Weng, Janyce
Wiebe, Theresa Wilson, Shuly Wintner, Yuk Wah Wong, Johan Wouters, Dekai Wu, Hua Wu
Zhuli Xie, Deyi Xiong, Jun Xu, Peng Xu, Jian Xue
Kazuhide Yamamoto, Christopher Yang, Jianwu Yang, Muyun Yang, Kaisheng Yao, Umit
Yapanel, Scott Wen-tau Yih, Deniz Yuret
Fabio Zanzotto, Dmitry Zelenko, Heiga Zen, Richard Zens, Luke Zettlemoyer, Hao Zhang,
Min Zhang, Rong Zhang, Tong Zhang, Yue Zhang, Tiejun Zhao, Bowen Zhou, Denny Zhou,
Ming Zhou, Jerry Zhu, Andreas Zollmann, Chengqing Zong, Pierre Zweigenbaum
Additional Reviewers:
Shlomo Argamon, Javier Artiles, Giuseppe Attardi, S.R.K. Branavan, Julian Brooke, David
Burkett,
Yong Cao, Yufeng Chen, Yu Chen, Ying Chen, Bonaventura Coppola, Sajib


Prompt:
Bonaventura Coppola, Sajib
Dasgupta, Anirban Dasgupta, Diego De Cao, Oier Lopez de Lacalle, Adi Eyal, Jung-wei Fan,
Benoit Favre, Moshe Fresko, Oana Frunza, Bin Gao, Xi-Wu Han, Zhongjun He, Carmen
Heger, Zhongjun He, Wenbin Jiang, Richard Johansson, Anna Kazantseva, Alistair Kennedy,
Fazel Keshtkar, Gerhard Kremer, Patrik Lambert, Greg Langmead, Oliver Lemon, Gregor
Leusch, Xiao Li, Shoushan Li, Wei Li, Sujian Li, Xiaojiang Liu, Ting Liu, Yang Liu, Yue Lu,
Jia Lu, Weihua Luo, Gang Luo, Yong-Liang Ma, Saab Mansour, Haitao Mi, Peter Nabenda,
Peter Nabende, Ramesh Nallapati, Dipasree Pal, Adam Pauls, Emanuele Pianta, Daniele
Pighin, Guilin Qi, Wei Qiao, Tao Qin, Jason Riesa, Felipe Sanchez-Martinez, Steven
Schockaert, Dou Shen, Kathrin Spreyer, Jun Sun, Milan Tofiloski, Lav Varshney, Ye-Yi
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Wang, Yu-Chieh Wu, Gu Xu, Sibel Yaman, Shiren Ye, Huang Yun, Hui Zhang, Yi Zhang,
Bing Zhao, Yu Zhou, Zhemin Zhu, Conghui Zhu
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Mentoring Service Committee
Chairs:


Prompt:
e
Chairs:
Ng, Hwee Tou (National University of Singapore, Singapore; nght@comp.nus.edu.sg)
Reeder, Florence (Mitre, USA; freeder@mitre.org)
Members:
Razvan Bunescu, Yee Seng Chan, Chrys Chrystello, Ken Church, Walter Daelemans, Deborah
Dahl, Robert Daland, Janet Hitzeman, Eduard Hovy, Marilyn Kupetz, Preslav Nakov, Jian-
Yun Nie, Kemal Oflazer, Bea Oshika, Dan Roth, Kenneth Samuel, Antal van den Bosch, John
White, Yuk Wah Wong


Prompt:
e
Chairs:
Ng, Hwee Tou (National University of Singapore, Singapore; nght@comp.nus.edu.sg)
Reeder, Florence (Mitre, USA; freeder@mitre.org)
Members:
Razvan Bunescu, Yee Seng Chan, Chrys Chrystello, Ken Church, Walter Daelemans, Deborah
Dahl, Robert Daland, Janet Hitzeman, Eduard Hovy, Marilyn Kupetz, Preslav Nakov, Jian-
Yun Nie, Kemal Oflazer, Bea Oshika, Dan Roth, Kenneth Samuel, Antal van den Bosch, John
White, Yuk Wah Wong
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Prompt:
Organizing Committee
General Chair:
Jan Hajič , Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Local Arrangements Chair:
Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University, Sweden
Program Chairs:
Sandra Carberry, University of Delaware, USA
Stephen Clark, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Local Arrangements Committee:
Beata Megyesi, Uppsala University, Sweden (vice-chair)
Anna Sågvall Hein, Uppsala University, Sweden
Rolf Carlson, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
Mats Dahllöf, Uppsala University, Sweden
Marco Kuhlmann, Uppsala University, Sweden
Mattias Nilsson, Uppsala University, Sweden
Markus Saers, Uppsala University, Sweden
Per Starbäck, Uppsala University, Sweden
Oscar Täckström, Uppsala University, Sweden
Jörg Tiedemann, Uppsala University, Sweden
Reut Tsarfaty, Uppsala University, Sweden
Local Organizing Secretariat (Akademikonferens, Uppsala, Sweden):
Ulla Conti (head)
Maria Carlson, Maria Bäckström, Johanna Tyselius Nilsson (webmasters)
Publicity Chairs:


Prompt:
Publicity Chairs:
Koenraad de Smedt, University of Bergen, Norway
Beata Megyesi, Uppsala University, Sweden
Exhibits Chair:
Jörg Tiedemann, Uppsala University, Sweden
Sponsorship Chairs:
Stephen Pulman, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Frédérique Segond, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France
Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Labs-Research, USA
Christy Doran, MITRE, USA
Hercules Dalianis, Stockholm University, Sweden
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Mats Wirén, Stockholm University, Sweden
Workshop Chairs:
David Weir, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
Pushpak Bhattacharyya, IIT Mumbai, India
Tutorial Chairs:
Lluís Màrquez, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Haifeng Wang, Baidu, China
Publications Chairs:
Jing-Shin Chang, National Chi Nan University, Taiwan
Philipp Koehn, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
System Demonstrations Chair:
Sandra Kübler, Indiana University, USA
Student Research Workshop Chairs:
Nils Reiter, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Seniz Demir, University of Delaware, USA


Prompt:
University of Delaware, USA
Jan Raab, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Tomek Strzalkowski, University at Albany – SUNY, USA (Faculty advisor)
Markéta Lopatková, Charles University in Prague (Faculty advisor)
Mentoring Service Chairs:
Björn Gambäck, SICS, Sweden
Diana McCarthy, Lexical Computing Ltd., United Kingdom
Registration:
Priscilla Rasmussen, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), USA
ACL Conference Coordinating Committee Chair for 2010:
Steven Bird, University of Melbourne, Australia
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Mentoring Service Chairs:
Björn Gambäck, SICS, Sweden
Diana McCarthy, Lexical Computing Ltd., United Kingdom
Mentoring Committee:
Chris Brew, The Ohio State University, USA
John Carroll, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
Ann Copestake, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Robert Daland,, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Roger Evans, University of Brighton, United Kingdom
Debora Field, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom


Prompt:
United Kingdom
Louise Guthrie, Oxford Internet Institute, United Kingdom
Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto, Canada
Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA
Kemal Oflazer, Carnegie Mellon University – Qatar
Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Donia Scott, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Mark Stevenson, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Antal van den Bosch, Tilburg University, Germany
Nick Webb, University at Albany – SUNY, USA
Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
David Weir, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
Richard Wicentowski, Swarthmore College, USA
Graham Wilcock, University of Helsinki, Finland
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Program Committee
Program Chairs:
Sandra Carberry, University of Delaware, USA
Stephen Clark, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Area Chairs:
Tim Baldwin (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Phil Blunsom (University of Oxford, UK)
Kalina Bontcheva (University of Shefﬁeld, UK)


Prompt:
ﬁeld, UK)
Johan Bos (University of Rome - La Sapienza, Italy)
Claire Cardie (Cornell University, United States)
Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Rob Gaizauskas (University of Shefﬁeld, UK)
Keith Hall (Google Research - Zurich, Switzerland)
Julia Hirschberg (Columbia University, United States)
Nancy Ide (Vassar College, United States)
Michael Johnston (AT&T Labs, United States)
Roger Levy (University of California - San Diego, United States)
Hang Li (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Chin-Yew Lin (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Yusuke Miyao (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Roberto Navigli (University of Rome - La Sapienza, Italy)
Ani Nenkova (University of Pennsylvania, United States)
Jon Oberlander (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Chris Quirk (Microsoft Research, United States)
Stuart Shieber (Harvard University, United States)
Khalil Sima’an (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Richard Sproat (Oregon Health and Science University, United States)


Prompt:
United States)
Matthew Stone (Rutgers University, United States)
Jun’ichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo and University of Manchester, Japan and UK)
Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Theresa Wilson (University of Edinburgh, UK)
ChengXiang Zhai (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States)
Best Paper Committee:
David Chiang (Information Sciences Institute, United States)
James R. Curran (University of Sydney, Australia)
Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Nancy Ide (Vassar College, United States)
Ann Copestake (University of Cambridge, UK)
Julia Hirschberg (Columbia University, United States)
Mark-Jan Nederhof (University of St Andrews, UK)
Stefan Riezler (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
Brian Roark (Oregon Health and Science University, United States)
Rada Mihalcea (University of North Texas, United States)
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Program Committee:
Ahmed Abbasi, Anne Abeille, Eugene Agichtein, Eneko Agirre, David Ahn, Beatrice Alex, En-


Prompt:
Beatrice Alex, En-
rique Alfonseca, Afra Alishahi, Alina Andreevskaia, Doug Appelt, Abhishek Arun, Nicholas
Asher, Aiti Aw
Bogdan Babych, Nguyen Bach, Collin Baker, Tim Baldwin, Carmen Banea, Srinivas Bangalore,
Colin Bannard, Ken Barker, Regina Barzilay, Roberto Basili, Anton Batliner, Tilman Becker, Nuria
Bel, Anja Belz, Luisa Bentivogli, Sabine Bergler, Raffaella Bernardi, Tim Bickmore, Klinton
Bicknell, Dan Bikel, Steven Bird, Rens Bod, Francis Bond, Stefan Bordag, Antal van den Bosch,
Gosse Bouma, Jordan Boyd-Graber, S.R.K. Branavan, Eric Breck, Chris Brew, Ted Briscoe,
Samuel Brody, Sabine Buchholz, Paul Buitelaar, Razvan Bunescu, Harry Bunt, Aljoscha Bur-
chardt, Stephan Busemann, Miriam Butt, Bill Byrne
Michael Cafarella, Aoife Cahill, Chris Callison-Burch, Diego Calvanese, Nicoletta Calzolari,
Nicola Cancedda, Yunbo Cao, Giuseppe Carenini, Michael Carl, Bob Carpenter, Marine Carpuat,
Xavier Carreras, John Carroll, Ben Carterette, Diamantino Caseiro, Dan Cer, Joyce Chai, Yee


Prompt:
Dan Cer, Joyce Chai, Yee
Seng Chan, Jason Chang, Pi-Chuan Chang, Ciprian Chelba, Aitao Chen, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Stanley
Chen, Wenliang Chen, Colin Cherry, David Chiang, Key-Sun Choi, Yejin Choi, Tat-Seng Chua,
Kenneth Church, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Christopher Cieri, Philipp Cimiano, Alex Clark, Pe-
ter Clark, James Clarke, Andrew Clegg, Eric de la Clergerie, Aaron Cohen, Kevin Cohen, Shay
Cohen, Trevor Cohn, Nigel Collier, Michael Collins, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Gao Cong, Paul
Cook, Anna Corazza, Marta Ruiz Costa-Jussa, Josep Crego, Mathias Creutz, Dan Cristea, Montse
Cuadros, Hang Cui, James Curran
Robert Damper, Dipanjan Das, Hal Daume, Thierry Declerck, Vera Demberg, Steve DeNeefe, John
DeNero, Tejaswini Deoskar, Ann Devitt, Mona Diab, Bill Dolan, Christy Doran, Doug Downey,
Mark Dredze, Markus Dreyer, Greg Druck, Amit Dubey, Kevin Duh, Benjamin van Durme, Chris
Dyer
Markus Egg, Koji Eguchi, Jason Eisner, Michael Elhadad, Ralf Engbert, Tomaz Erjavec, Katrin


Prompt:
Tomaz Erjavec, Katrin
Erk, Gunes Erkan, G¨uls¸en Eryi˘git, Maxine Eskenazi, Andrea Esuli, Oren Etzioni
Hui Fang, Marcello Federico, Anna Feldman, Ronen Feldman, Christiane Fellbaum, Raquel Fer-
nandez, Raul Fernandez, Tim Fernando, Jenny Finkel, Dan Flickinger, Radu Florian, Juliane
Fluck, Kate Forbes-Riley, Mary Ellen Foster, Nissim Francez, Anette Frank, Stefan Frank, Stella
Frank, Alex Fraser, Dayne Freitag, Pascale Fung, Sadaoki Furui, Dina Demner Fushman
Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Michael Galley, Michael Gamon, Jianfeng Gao, Claire Gardent, Nikesh
Garera, Josef van Genabith, Dmitriy Genzel, Kallirroi Georgila, Daniel Gildea, Alastair Gill, Je-
sus Gimenez, Kevin Gimpel, Roxana Girju, Adria de Gispert, Claudio Giuliano, Sharon Goldwa-
ter, Gevieve Gorrell, Agustin Gravano, Stephan Greene, Mark Greenwood, Gregory Grefenstette,
Ralph Grishman, Philippe de Groote, Claire Grover, Joakim Gustafson
Barry Haddow, Gholamreza Haffari, Udo Hahn, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Harald Hammarstrom, Siegfried


Prompt:
Siegfried
Handschuh, Sanda Harabagiu, Henk Harkema, Donna Harman, Saˇsa Hasan, Chikara Hashimoto,
Hany Hassan, Xiaodong He, Peter Heeman, James Henderson, Mark Hepple, Ulf Hermjakob,
Andrew Hickl, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Erhard Hinrichs, Lynette Hirschman, Graeme Hirst, Julia
Hockenmaier, Beth Ann Hockey, Veronique Hoste, Yunnhua Hu, Chu-Ren Huang, Jimmy Huang,
Liang Huang, Minlie Huang, Xuanjing Huang, Sarmad Hussain, Gerhard van Huyssteen, Rebecca
Hwa
Nancy Ide, Diana Inkpen
Florian Jaeger, Gerhard Jaeger, Martin Jansche, Jing Jiang, Wenbin Jiang, Richard Johansson,
Howard Johnson, Mark Johnson, Rie Johnson, Michael Johnston, Aravind Joshi
Damianos Karakos, Nikiforos Karamanis, Lauri Karttunen, Daisuke Kawahara, Andrew Kehler,
Frank Keller, Rodger Kibble, Adam Kilgarriff, Jin-Dong Kim, Su Nam Kim, Tracy Holloway
xiv

King, Kevin Knight, Alistair Knott, Philipp Koehn, Rob Koeling, Oskar Kohonen, Alexander


Prompt:
Oskar Kohonen, Alexander
Koller, Greg Kondrak, Moshe Koppel, Valia Kordoni, Anna Korhonen, Andras Kornai, Wessel
Kraaij, Emiel Krahmer, Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, Udo Kruschwitz, Lun-Wei Ku, Sandra Kuebler,
Marco Kuhlmann, Roland Kuhn, Shankar Kumar, Mikko Kurimo, Oren Kurland, Sadao Kuro-
hashi, Tom Kwiatkowski, Kui-Lam Kwok, Olivia Kwong
Krista Lagus, Patrik Lambert, Philippe Langlais, Mirella Lapata, Alex Lascarides, Alberto Lavelli,
Victor Lavrenko, Gary Geunbae Lee, Yoong Keok Lee, Gregor Leusch, Gina-Anne Levow, Roger
Levy, David Lewis, Chi-Ho Li, Haizhou Li, Maggie Wenjie Li, Mu Li, Wei Li, Xiao Li, Zhifei Li,
Percy Liang, Chuan-Jie Lin, Ken Litkowski, Diane Litman, Bing Liu, Qun Liu, Ting Liu, Yang
Liu, Yupeng Liu, Adam Lopez, Ramon Lopez-Cozar, Daniel Lopresti, Annie Louis, Bernd Ludwig
Klaus Macherey, Wolfgang Macherey, Rob Malouf, Suresh Manandhar, Daniel Marcu, Mitch Mar-
cus, Katja Markert, Erwin Marsi, Andre Martins, David Mart´ınez, Sameer Maskey, Yuji Mat-


Prompt:
Sameer Maskey, Yuji Mat-
sumoto, Takuya Matsuzaki, Evgeny Matusov, Arne Mauser, Mike Maxwell, Diana Maynard,
Diana McCarthy, David McClosky, Ryan McDonald, Kathleen McKeown, Qiaozhu Mei, Dan
Melamed, Arul Menezes, Helen Meng, Paola Merlo, Donald Metzler, Haitao Mi, Jens Michaelis,
Rada Mihalcea, Eleni Miltsakaki, David Mimno, Michael Minock, Teruko Mitamura, Bernd Moe-
bius, Marie-Francine Moens, Saif Mohammad, Christian Monson, Christof Monz, Bob Moore,
Michael Moortgat, Roser Morante, Louis-Philippe Morency, Tatsunori Mori, Glyn Morrill, Alessan-
dro Moschitti, Larry Moss, Llu´ıs M`arquez, Tony Mullen, Gabriel Murray, Sung-Hyon Myaeng
Tetsuji Nakagawa, Hiromi Nakaiwa, Yukiko Nakano, Tahira Naseem, Vivi Nastase, Tetsuya Na-
sukawa, Mark-Jan Nederhof, Rani Nelken, Goran Nenadic, Ani Nenkova, G¨unter Neumann, Her-
mann Ney, Hwee Tou Ng, Vincent Ng, Patrick Nguyen, Jeremy Nicholson, Jian-Yun Nie, Zaiqing
Nie, Takashi Ninomiya, Gertjan van Noord, Scott Nowson


Prompt:
Scott Nowson
Jon Oberlander, Franz Och, Stephan Oepen, Kemal Oﬂazer, Naoaki Okazaki, Manabu Okumura,
Constantin Orasan, Miles Osborne, Diarmuid OSeaghdha
Sebastian Pado, Tim Paek, Bo Pang, Patrick Pantel, Soo-Min Pantel, Cecile Paris, Marius Pasca,
Rebecca Passonneau, Adam Pauls, Guy De Pauw, Gerald Penn, Fernando Pereira, John Pestian,
Kay Peterson, Slav Petrov, Michael Picheny, Roberto Pieraccini, Manfred Pinkal, Stelios Piperidis,
Emily Pitler, Paul Piwek, Massimo Poesio, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Hoifung Poon, Ana-Maria
Popescu, Andrei Popescu-Belis, Matt Post, David Powers, John Prager, Rashmi Prasad, Stephen
Pulman, Vasin Punyakanok, Matthew Purver, James Pustejovsky, Sampo Pyysalo
Stephan Raaijmakers, Filip Radlinski, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Owen Rambow, Allan Ramsay,
Delip Rao, Reinhard Rapp, Ari Rappoport, Emmanuel Rayner, Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann,
Flo Reeder, Erik Reichle, Ehud Reiter, David Reitter, Steve Renals, Christian Retore, Giuseppe


Prompt:
Christian Retore, Giuseppe
Riccardi, Sebastian Riedel, German Rigau, Ellen Riloff, Hae-Chang Rim, Laura Rimell, Brian
Roark, James Rogers, Doug Roland, Laurent Romary, Andrew Rosenberg, Paolo Rosso, Dan Roth,
Shourya Roy, Patrick Ruch
Kenji Sagae, William Sakas, Tapio Salakoski, Greg Sanders, Rajeev Sangal, Murat Saraclar, Gior-
gio Satta, Roser Sauri, Frank Schilder, David Schlangen, Helmut Schmid, Hinrich Schuetze,
William Schuler, Rolf Schwitter, Donia Scott, Yohei Seki, Satoshi Sekine, Violeta Seretan, Burr
Settles, Chung-chieh Shan, Vijay Shanker, Libin Shen, Stuart Shieber, Kiyoaki Shirai, Mario Silva,
David Smith, Jason Smith, Nathaniel Smith, Noah Smith, Ben Snyder, Stephen Soderland, Ha-
gen Soltau, Swapna Somasundaran, Young-In Song, Abdelhadi Soudi, Lucia Specia, Sebastian
Spiegler, Michael Spivey, Caroline Sporleder, Richard Sproat, Rohini Srihari, Padmini Srinivasan,
Ed Stabler, Manfred Stede, Mark Steedman, Ralf Steinberger, Amanda Stent, Mark Stevenson,


Prompt:
Mark Stevenson,
Matthew Stone, Veselin Stoyanov, Carlo Strapparava, Michael Strube, Patrick Sturt, Jian Su, L
Venkata Subramaniam, Mihai Surdeanu, Marc Swerts, Stan Szpakowicz
Hiroya Takamura, David Talbot, Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Jie Tang, Ben Taskar, Michael Tepper,
Stefan Thater, Mariet Theune, Christoph Tillmann, Ivan Titov, Take Tokunaga, Kentaro Torisawa,
xv

Kristina Toutanova, Roy Tromble, Vivian Tsang, Reut Tsarfaty, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Gokhan Tur,
Peter Turney
Lucy Vanderwende, Sebastian Varges, Vasudeva Varma, Shravan Vasishth, Tony Veale, Paola Ve-
lardi, Henriette Viethen, Marc Vilain, David Vilar, Sami Virpioja, Andreas Vlachos, Stephan Vo-
gel, Piek Vossen
Sabine Schulte im Walde, Hanna Wallach, Stephen Wan, Xiaojun Wan, Haifeng Wang, Wei Wang,
Taro Watanabe, Andy Way, Bonnie Webber, David Weir, Ralph Weischedel, Ben Wellner, Edward
Whittaker, Janyce Wiebe, John Wilbur, Theresa Wilson, Shuly Wintner, Yuk Wah Wong, Dekai
Wu
Fei Xia, Deyi Xiong, Peng Xu, Nianwen Xue


Prompt:
Peng Xu, Nianwen Xue
Mei Yang, Roman Yangarber, Patrick Ye, Lars Yencken, Zhang Yi, Scott Wen-tau Yih
Richard Zens, Luke Zettlemoyer, Cheng Zhai, Hao Zhang, Yi Zhang, Yue Zhang, Zhu Zhang, Jing
Zheng, Jun Zhu, Andreas Zollmann, Willem (Jelle) Zuidema, Ingrid Zukerman


Prompt:
Peng Xu, Nianwen Xue
Mei Yang, Roman Yangarber, Patrick Ye, Lars Yencken, Zhang Yi, Scott Wen-tau Yih
Richard Zens, Luke Zettlemoyer, Cheng Zhai, Hao Zhang, Yi Zhang, Yue Zhang, Zhu Zhang, Jing
Zheng, Jun Zhu, Andreas Zollmann, Willem (Jelle) Zuidema, Ingrid Zukerman
xvi


Prompt:
Organizing Committee
General Chair
Dekang Lin, Google
Local Arrangements Chair
Brian Roark, Oregon Health & Science University
Program Co-Chairs
Yuji Matsumoto, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas
Local Arrangements Committee
Nate Bodenstab, Oregon Health & Science University
Aaron Dunlop, Oregon Health & Science University
Peter Heeman, Oregon Health & Science University
Meg Mitchell, Oregon Health & Science University
Christian Monson, Nuance
Zak Shafran, Oregon Health & Science University
Richard Sproat, Oregon Health & Science University
Masoud Rouhizadeh, Oregon Health & Science University
Mahsa Yarmohammadi, Oregon Health & Science University
Publications Chair
Guodong Zhou, Suzhou University
Sponsorship Chairs
Haifeng Wang, Baidu
Kevin Duh, National Inst. of Information and Communications Technology
Massimiliano Ciaramita, Google
Michael Gamon, Microsoft
Priscilla Rasmussen, Association for Computational Linguistics


Prompt:
nguistics
Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T
Stephen Pulman, Oxford University
Tutorial Co-chairs
Patrick Pantel, Microsoft Research
Andy Way, Dublin City University
ix

Workshop Co-chairs
Hal Daume III, University of Maryland
John Carroll, University of Sussex
Demo Chair
Sadao Kurohashi, Kyoto University
Mentoring
Chair
Tim Baldwin, University of Melbourne
Committee
Chris Biemann, TU Darmstadt
Mark Dras, Macquarie University
Jeremy Nicholson, University of Melbourne
Student Research Workshop
Student Co-chairs
Sasa Petrovic, University of Edinburgh
Emily Pitler, University of Pennsylvania
Ethan Selfridge, Oregon Health & Science University
Faculty Advisors
Miles Osborne, University of Edinburgh
Thamar Solorio, University of Alabama at Birmingham
ACL Conference Coordination Committee
Ido Dagan, Bar Ilan University (chair)
Chris Brew, Ohio State University
Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto
Lori Levin, Carnegie Mellon University
Christopher Manning, Stanford University


Prompt:
Stanford University
Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan
Owen Rambow, Columbia University
Priscilla Rasmussen, Association for Computational Linguistics
Suzanne Stevenson, University of Toronto
ACL Business Manager
Priscilla Rasmussen, Association for Computational Linguistics
x

Program Committee
Program Co-chairs
Yuji Matsumoto, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas
Area Chairs
Razvan Bunescu, Ohio University
Xavier Carreras, Technical University of Catalonia
Anna Feldman, Montclair University
Pascale Fung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Chu-Ren Huang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Kentaro Inui, Tohoku University
Greg Kondrak, University of Alberta
Shankar Kumar, Google
Yang Liu, University of Texas at Dallas
Bernardo Magnini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Elliott Macklovitch, Marque d’Or
Katja Markert, University of Leeds
Lluis Marquez, Technical University of Catalonia
Diana McCarthy, Lexical Computing Ltd


Prompt:
Lexical Computing Ltd
Ryan McDonald, Google
Alessandro Moschitti, University of Trento
Vivi Nastase, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
Manabu Okumura, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Vasile Rus, University of Memphis
Fabrizio Sebastiani, National Research Council of Italy
Michel Simard, National Research Council of Canada
Thamar Solorio, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Svetlana Stoyanchev, Open University
Carlo Strapparava, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Dan Tuﬁs, Romanian Academy of Artiﬁcial Intelligence
Xiaojun Wan, Peking University
Taro Watanabe, National Inst. of Information and Communications Technology
Alexander Yates, Temple University
Deniz Yuret, Koc University
Program Committee
Ahmed Abbasi, Eugene Agichtein, Eneko Agirre, Lars Ahrenberg, Gregory Aist, Enrique Al-
fonseca, Laura Alonso i Alemany, Gianni Amati, Alina Andreevskaia, Ion Androutsopoulos,
Abhishek Arun, Masayuki Asahara, Nicholas Asher, Giuseppe Attardi, Necip Fazil Ayan


Prompt:
Necip Fazil Ayan
Collin Baker, Jason Baldridge, Tim Baldwin, Krisztian Balog, Carmen Banea, Verginica Barbu
xi

Mititelu, Marco Baroni, Regina Barzilay, Roberto Basili, John Bateman, Tilman Becker, Lee
Becker, Beata Beigman-Klebanov, Cosmin Bejan, Ron Bekkerman, Daisuke Bekki, Kedar Bel-
lare, Anja Belz, Sabine Bergler, Shane Bergsma, Raffaella Bernardi, Nicola Bertoldi, Pushpak
Bhattacharyya, Archana Bhattarai, Tim Bickmore, Chris Biemann, Dan Bikel, Alexandra Birch,
Maria Biryukov, Alan Black, Roi Blanco, John Blitzer, Phil Blunsom, Gemma Boleda, Francis
Bond, Kalina Bontcheva, Johan Bos, Gosse Bouma, Kristy Boyer, S.R.K. Branavan, Thorsten
Brants, Eric Breck, Ulf Brefeld, Chris Brew, Ted Briscoe, Samuel Brody
Michael Cafarella, Aoife Cahill, Chris Callison-Burch, Rafael Calvo, Nicoletta Calzolari, Nicola
Cancedda, Claire Cardie, Giuseppe Carenini, Claudio Carpineto, Marine Carpuat, Xavier Car-


Prompt:
Marine Carpuat, Xavier Car-
reras, John Carroll, Ben Carterette, Francisco Casacuberta, Helena Caseli, Julio Castillo, Mauro
Cettolo, Hakan Ceylan, Joyce Chai, Pi-Chuan Chang, Vinay Chaudhri, Berlin Chen, Ying Chen,
Hsin-Hsi Chen, John Chen, Colin Cherry, David Chiang, Yejin Choi, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Grace
Chung, Kenneth Church, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Philipp Cimiano, Stephen Clark, Shay Co-
hen, Trevor Cohn, Nigel Collier, Michael Collins, John Conroy, Paul Cook, Ann Copestake,
Bonaventura Coppola, Fabrizio Costa, Koby Crammer, Dan Cristea, Montse Cuadros, Silviu-
Petru Cucerzan, Aron Culotta, James Curran
Walter Daelemans, Robert Damper, Hoa Dang, Dipanjan Das, Hal Daume, Adria de Gispert,
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Gerard de Melo, Maarten de Rijke, Vera Demberg, Steve DeNeefe,
John DeNero, Pascal Denis, Ann Devitt, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Mona Diab, Markus Dickinson,
Mike Dillinger, Bill Dolan, Doug Downey, Markus Dreyer, Greg Druck, Kevin Duh, Chris Dyer,
Marc Dymetman


Prompt:
Marc Dymetman
Markus Egg, Koji Eguchi, Andreas Eisele, Jacob Eisenstein, Jason Eisner, Michael Elhadad,
Tomaz Erjavec, Katrin Erk, Hugo Escalante, Andrea Esuli
Hui Fang, Alex Chengyu Fang, Benoit Favre, Anna Feldman, Christiane Fellbaum, Donghui
Feng, Raquel Fernandez, Nicola Ferro, Katja Filippova, Jenny Finkel, Seeger Fisher, Margaret
Fleck, Dan Flickinger, Corina Forascu, Kate Forbes-Riley, Mikel L. Forcada, Eric Fosler-Lussier,
Jennifer Foster, George Foster, Anette Frank, Alex Fraser, Dayne Freitag, Guohong Fu, Hagen
Fuerstenau, Pascale Fung, Sadaoki Furui
Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Robert Gaizauskas, Michel Galley, Michael Gamon, Kuzman Ganchev,
Jianfeng Gao, Claire Gardent, Thomas G¨artner, Albert Gatt, Dmitriy Genzel, Kallirroi Georgila,
Carlo Geraci, Pablo Gervas, Shlomo Geva, Daniel Gildea, Alastair Gill, Dan Gillick, Jesus
Gimenez, Kevin Gimpel, Roxana Girju, Claudio Giuliano, Amir Globerson, Yoav Goldberg,


Prompt:
Yoav Goldberg,
Sharon Goldwater, Carlos Gomez Rodriguez, Julio Gonzalo, Brigitte Grau, Stephan Greene,
Ralph Grishman, Tunga Gungor, Zhou GuoDong, Iryna Gurevych, David Guthrie
Nizar Habash, Ben Hachey, Barry Haddow, Gholamreza Haffari, Aria Haghighi, Udo Hahn,
Jan Hajic, Dilek Hakkani-T¨ur, Keith Hall, Jirka Hana, John Hansen, Sanda Harabagiu, Mark
Hasegawa-Johnson, Koiti Hasida, Ahmed Hassan, Katsuhiko Hayashi, Ben He, Xiaodong He,
Ulrich Heid, Michael Heilman, Ilana Heintz, Jeff Heinz, John Henderson, James Henderson, Iris
xii

Hendrickx, Aurelie Herbelot, Erhard Hinrichs, Tsutomu Hirao, Julia Hirschberg, Graeme Hirst,
Julia Hockenmaier, Tracy Holloway King, Bo-June (Paul) Hsu, Xuanjing Huang, Liang Huang,
Jimmy Huang, Jian Huang, Chu-Ren Huang, Juan Huerta, Rebecca Hwa
Nancy Ide, Gonzalo Iglesias, Gabriel Infante-L´opez, Diana Inkpen, Radu Ion, Elena Irimia, Pierre
Isabelle, Mitsuru Ishizuka, Aminul Islam, Abe Ittycheriah, Tomoharu Iwata


Prompt:
Tomoharu Iwata
Martin Jansche, Sittichai Jiampojamarn, Jing Jiang, Valentin Jijkoun, Richard Johansson, Mark
Johnson, Aravind Joshi
Nanda Kambhatla, Min-Yen Kan, Kyoko Kanzaki, Rohit Kate, Junichi Kazama, Bill Keller, An-
dre Kempe, Philipp Keohn, Fazel Keshtkar, Adam Kilgarriff, Jin-Dong Kim, Su Nam Kim, Brian
Kingsbury, Katrin Kirchhoff, Ioannis Klapaftis, Dan Klein, Alexandre Klementiev, Kevin Knight,
Rob Koeling, Oskar Kohonen, Alexander Kolcz, Alexander Koller, Kazunori Komatani, Terry
Koo, Moshe Koppel, Valia Kordoni, Anna Korhonen, Andras Kornai, Zornitsa Kozareva, Lun-
Wei Ku, Sandra Kuebler, Marco Kuhlmann, Roland Kuhn, Mikko Kurimo, Oren Kurland, Olivia
Kwong
Krista Lagus, Philippe Langlais, Guy Lapalme, Mirella Lapata, Dominique Laurent, Alberto
Lavelli, Matthew Lease, Gary Lee, Kiyong Lee, Els Lefever, Alessandro Lenci, James Lester,
Gina-Anne Levow, Tao Li, Shoushan LI, Fangtao Li, Zhifei Li, Haizhou Li, Hang Li, Wenjie


Prompt:
Haizhou Li, Hang Li, Wenjie
Li, Percy Liang, Chin-Yew Lin, Frank Lin, Mihai Lintean, Ken Litkowski, Diane Litman, Ma-
rina Litvak, Yang Liu, Bing Liu, Qun Liu, Jingjing Liu, Elena Lloret, Birte Loenneker-Rodman,
Adam Lopez, Annie Louis, Xiaofei Lu, Yue Lu
Tengfei Ma, Wolfgang Macherey, Klaus Macherey, Elliott Macklovitch, Nitin Madnani, Bernardo
Magnini, Suresh Manandhar, Gideon Mann, Chris Manning, Daniel Marcu, David Mart´ınez,
Andre Martins, Yuval Marton, Sameer Maskey, Spyros Matsoukas, Mausam, Arne Mauser,
Jon May, David McAllester, Andrew McCallum, David McClosky, Ryan McDonald, Bridget
McInnes, Tara McIntosh, Kathleen McKeown, Paul McNamee, Yashar Mehdad, Qiaozhu Mei,
Arul Menezes, Paola Merlo, Donald Metzler, Adam Meyers, Haitao Mi, Jeff Mielke, Einat
Minkov, Yusuke Miyao, Dunja Mladenic, Marie-Francine Moens, Saif Mohammad, Dan Moldovan,
Diego Molla, Christian Monson, Manuel Montes y Gomez, Raymond Mooney, Robert Moore,


Prompt:
Robert Moore,
Tatsunori Mori, Glyn Morrill, Sara Morrissey, Alessandro Moschitti, Jack Mostow, Smaranda
Muresan, Gabriel Murray, Gabriele Musillo, Sung-Hyon Myaeng
Tetsuji Nakagawa, Mikio Nakano, Preslav Nakov, Ramesh Nallapati, Vivi Nastase, Borja Navarro-
Colorado, Roberto Navigli, Mark-Jan Nederhof, Matteo Negri, Ani Nenkova, Graham Neubig,
Guenter Neumann, Vincent Ng, Hwee Tou Ng, Patrick Nguyen, Jian-Yun Nie, Rodney Nielsen,
Joakim Nivre, Tadashi Nomoto, Scott Nowson
Diarmuid ´O S´eaghdha, Sharon O’Brien, Franz Och, Stephan Oepen, Kemal Oﬂazer, Jong-Hoon
Oh, Constantin Orasan, Miles Osborne, Gozde Ozbal
xiii

Sebastian Pado, Tim Paek, Bo Pang, Patrick Pantel, Soo-Min Pantel, Ivandre Paraboni, Ce-
cile Paris, Marius Pasca, Gabriella Pasi, Andrea Passerini, Rebecca J. Passonneau, Siddharth
Patwardhan, Adam Pauls, Adam Pease, Ted Pedersen, Anselmo Penas, Anselmo Pe˜nas, Jing
Peng, Fuchun Peng, Gerald Penn, Marco Pennacchiotti, Wim Peters, Slav Petrov, Emanuele


Prompt:
Slav Petrov, Emanuele
Pianta, Michael Picheny, Daniele Pighin, Manfred Pinkal, David Pinto, Stelios Piperidis, Paul
Piwek, Benjamin Piwowarski, Massimo Poesio, Livia Polanyi, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Hoi-
fung Poon, Ana-Maria Popescu, Andrei Popescu-Belis, Maja Popovic, Martin Potthast, Richard
Power, Sameer Pradhan, John Prager, Rashmi Prasad, Partha Pratim Talukdar, Adam Przepi´orkowski,
Vasin Punyakanok, Matthew Purver, Sampo Pyysalo
Silvia Quarteroni, Ariadna Quattoni, Chris Quirk
Stephan Raaijmakers, Dragomir Radev, Filip Radlinski, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Ganesh Ra-
makrishnan, Owen Rambow, Aarne Ranta, Delip Rao, Ari Rappoport, Lev Ratinov, Antoine
Raux, Emmanuel Rayner, Roi Reichart, Ehud Reiter, Steve Renals, Philip Resnik, Giuseppe Ric-
cardi, Sebastian Riedel, Stefan Riezler, German Rigau, Ellen Riloff, Laura Rimell, Eric Ringger,
Horacio Rodr´ıguez, Paolo Rosso, Antti-Veikko Rosti, Rachel Edita Roxas, Alex Rudnicky, Marta


Prompt:
Alex Rudnicky, Marta
Ruiz Costa-Jussa, Vasile Rus, Graham Russell, Anton Rytting
Rune Sætre, Kenji Sagae, Horacio Saggion, Tapio Salakoski, Agnes Sandor, Sudeshna Sarkar,
Anoop Sarkar, Giorgio Satta, Hassan Sawaf, Frank Schilder, Anne Schiller, David Schlangen,
Sabine Schulte im Walde, Tanja Schultz, Holger Schwenk, Donia Scott, Yohei Seki, Satoshi
Sekine, Stephanie Seneff, Jean Senellart, Violeta Seretan, Burr Settles, Serge Sharoff, Dou Shen,
Wade Shen, Libin Shen, Kiyoaki Shirai, Luo Si, Grigori Sidorov, M´ario Silva, Fabrizio Silvestri,
Khalil Simaan, Michel Simard, Gabriel Skantze, Noah Smith, Matthew Snover, Rion Snow, Ben-
jamin Snyder, Stephen Soderland, Marina Sokolova, Thamar Solorio, Swapna Somasundaran,
Lucia Specia, Valentin Spitkovsky, Richard Sproat, Manfred Stede, Mark Steedman, Amanda
Stent, Mark Stevenson, Svetlana Stoyanchev, Veselin Stoyanov, Michael Strube, Sara Stymne,
Keh-Yih Su, Fangzhong Su, Jian Su, L Venkata Subramaniam, David Suendermann, Maosong


Prompt:
David Suendermann, Maosong
Sun, Mihai Surdeanu, Richard Sutcliffe, Charles Sutton, Jun Suzuki, Stan Szpakowicz, Idan
Szpektor
Hiroya Takamura, David Talbot, Irina Temnikova, Michael Tepper, Simone Teufel, Stefan Thater,
Allan Third, J¨org Tiedemann, Christoph Tillmann, Ivan Titov, Takenobu Tokunaga, Kentaro Tori-
sawa, Kristina Toutanova, Isabel Trancoso, Richard Tsai, Vivian Tsang, Dan Tuﬁs
Takehito Utsuro
Shivakumar Vaithyanathan, Alessandro Valitutti, Antal van den Bosch, Hans van Halteren, Gert-
jan van Noord, Lucy Vanderwende, Vasudeva Varma, Tony Veale, Olga Vechtomova, Paola Ve-
lardi, Rene Venegas, Ashish Venugopal, Jose Luis Vicedo, Evelyne Viegas, David Vilar, Begona
Villada Moiron, Sami Virpioja, Andreas Vlachos, Stephan Vogel, Piek Vossen
Michael Walsh, Xiaojun Wan, Xinglong Wang, Wei Wang, Haifeng Wang, Justin Washtell, Andy
xiv

Way, David Weir, Ben Wellner, Ji-Rong Wen, Chris Wendt, Michael White, Ryen White, Richard


Prompt:
Ryen White, Richard
Wicentowski, Jan Wiebe, Sandra Williams, Jason Williams, Theresa Wilson, Shuly Wintner,
Kam-Fai Wong, Fei Wu
Deyi Xiong, Peng Xu, Jinxi Xu, Nianwen Xue
Scott Wen-tau Yih, Emine Yilmaz
David Zajic, Fabio Zanzotto, Richard Zens, Torsten Zesch, Hao Zhang, Bing Zhang, Min Zhang,
Huarui Zhang, Jun Zhao, Bing Zhao, Jing Zheng, Li Hai Zhou, Michael Zock, Andreas Zoll-
mann, Geoffrey Zweig, Pierre Zweigenbaum
Secondary Reviewers
Omri Abend, Rodrigo Agerri, Paolo Annesi, Wilker Aziz, Tyler Baldwin, Verginica Barbu Mi-
titelu, David Batista, Delphine Bernhard, Stephen Boxwell, Janez Brank, Chris Brockett, Tim
Buckwalter, Wang Bukang, Alicia Burga, Steven Burrows, Silvia Calegari, Marie Candito, Ma-
rina Cardenas, Bob Carpenter, Paula Carvalho, Diego Ceccarelli, Asli Celikyilmaz, Soumaya
Chaffar, Bin Chen, Danilo Croce, Daniel Dahlmeier, Hong-Jie Dai, Mariam Daoud, Steven De-
Neefe, Leon Derczynski, Elina Desypri, Sobha Lalitha Devi, Gideon Dror, Loic Dugast, Eraldo


Prompt:
Loic Dugast, Eraldo
Fernandes, Jody Foo, Kotaro Funakoshi, Jing Gao, Wei Gao, Diman Ghazi, Julius Goth, Joseph
Grafsgaard, Eun Young Ha, Robbie Haertel, Matthias Hagen, Enrique Henestroza, Hieu Hoang,
Maria Holmqvist, Dennis Hoppe, Yunhua Hu, Yun Huang, Radu Ion, Elena Irimia, Jagadeesh
Jagarlamudi, Antonio Ju´arez-Gonz´alez, Sun Jun, Evangelos Kanoulas, Aaron Kaplan, Caro-
line Lavecchia, Lianhau Lee, Michael Levit, Ping Li, Thomas Lin, Wang Ling, Ying Liu, Jos´e
David Lopes, Bin Lu, Jia Lu, Saab Mansour, Raquel Martinez-Unanue, Haitao Mi, Simon Mille,
Teruhisa Misu, Behrang Mohit, S´ılvio Moreira, Rutu Mulkar-Mehta, Jason Naradowsky, Sudip
Naskar, Heung-Seon Oh, You Ouyang, Llu´ıs Padr´o, Sujith Ravi, Marta Recasens, Luz Rello, Ste-
fan Rigo, Alan Ritter, Alvaro Rodrigo, Hasim Sak, Kevin Seppi, Aliaksei Severyn, Chao Shen,
Shuming Shi, Laurianne Sitbon, Jun Sun, Gy¨orgy Szarvas, Eric Tang, Alberto T´ellez-Valero, Lu-


Prompt:
Alberto T´ellez-Valero, Lu-
ong Minh Thang, Gabriele Tolomei, David Tom´as, Diana Trandabat, Zhaopeng Tu, Gokhan Tur,
Kateryna Tymoshenko, Fabienne Venant, Esa´u Villatoro-Tello, Joachim Wagner, Dan Walker,
Wei Wei, Xinyan Xiao, Jun Xie, Hao Xiong, Gu Xu, Jun Xu, Huichao Xue, Taras Zagibalov,
Be˜nat Zapirain, Kalliopi Zervanou, Renxian Zhang, Daqi Zheng, Arkaitz Zubiaga


Prompt:
Alberto T´ellez-Valero, Lu-
ong Minh Thang, Gabriele Tolomei, David Tom´as, Diana Trandabat, Zhaopeng Tu, Gokhan Tur,
Kateryna Tymoshenko, Fabienne Venant, Esa´u Villatoro-Tello, Joachim Wagner, Dan Walker,
Wei Wei, Xinyan Xiao, Jun Xie, Hao Xiong, Gu Xu, Jun Xu, Huichao Xue, Taras Zagibalov,
Be˜nat Zapirain, Kalliopi Zervanou, Renxian Zhang, Daqi Zheng, Arkaitz Zubiaga
xv


Prompt:
Organizing Committee
General Chair
Haizhou Li, Institute for Infocomm Research
Program Co-Chairs
Chin-Yew Lin, Microsoft Research Asia
Miles Osborne, University of Edinburgh
Local Arrangement Co-Chairs
Gary Geunbae Lee, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
Jong C. Park, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Workshop Co-Chairs
Massimo Poesio, University of Essex
Satoshi Sekine, New York University
Publication Co-Chairs
Maggie Li, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Michael White, The Ohio State University
Publicity Chairs
Jung-jae Kim, Nanyang Technological University
Youngjoong Ko, Dong-A University
Tutorial Chair
Michael Strube, HITS gGmbH
Demo Chair
Min Zhang, Institute for Infocomm Research
Special Session Chair
Rafael E. Banchs, Institute for Infocomm Research
Mentoring Service Chair
Joyce Chai, Michigan State University
Exhibit Chair
Byeongchang Kim, Catholic University of Daegu
Faculty Advisors (Student Research Workshop)


Prompt:
Workshop)
Kentaro Inui, Tohoku University
Greg Kondrak, University of Alberta
Yang Liu, University of Texas at Dallas
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Student Chairs (Student Research Workshop)
Jackie Cheung, University of Toronto
Jun Hatori, University of Tokyo
Carlos Henriquez, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC)
Ann Irvine, Johns Hopkins University
Sponsorship Chairs
Eiichiro Sumita, NICT
Haifeng Wang, Baidu
Michael Gamon, Microsoft
Patrick Pantel, Microsoft
Massimiliano Ciaramita, Google
Idan Szpektor, Yahoo!
Local Arrangements Committee
Gary Geunbae Lee (co-chair)
Jong C. Park (co-chair)
Jeong-Won Cha (social activities)
Hanmin Jung (local sponsorship)
Seungshik Kang (local ﬁnance)
Byeongchang Kim (local exhibit)
Harksoo Kim (government sponsorship)
Jung-jae Kim (conference handbook)
Youngjoong Ko (web site and ﬂyer)
Heuiseok Lim (student volunteer management)
Seong-Bae Park (internet, wiﬁ and equipments)
Business Manager
Priscilla Rasmussen
x

Program Committee
Program Co-chairs


Prompt:
Program Co-chairs
Chin-Yew Lin, Microsoft Research Asia
Miles Osborne, University of Edinburgh
Area Chairs
Hongyuan Zha, School of Computational Science and Engineering, College of Computing, Geor-
gia Institute of Technology
Hsin-Hsi Chen, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan
University, Taipei, Taiwan
Kemal Oﬂazer, Carnegie Mellun University - Qatar
Mikio Nakano, Honda Research Institute, Japan
Andrei Popescu-Belis, Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland
Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Jason Baldridge, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
David Weir, University of Sussex, UK
Trevor Cohn, University of Shefﬁeld, UK
Mark Dredze, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Noah Smith, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Jan Wiebe, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Daniel M. Bikel, Google Research, USA
Mona T. Diab, Center for Computational Learning Systems, Columbia University, USA
Fei Xia, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, USA


Prompt:
Seattle, USA
Marcello Federico, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy
Adam Lopez, Human Language Technology Center of Excellence, Johns Hopkins University,
USA
David Talbot, Google Research, USA
Hua Wu, Baidu, China
Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Google, USA
Naoaki Okazaki, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Japan
Stephen Clark, University of Cambridge, UK
Liang Huang, University Southern California, USA
Anja Belz, School of Computing, Engineering and Maths, University of Brighton, UK
Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Chung-Hsien Wu, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng
Kung University, TAIWAN
Jian Su, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Jianfeng Gao, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA
Vincent Ng, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Program Committee
Apoorv Agarwal, Lars Ahrenberg, Hua Ai, Cem Akkaya, Inaki Alegria, Jan Alexandersson, En-


Prompt:
Jan Alexandersson, En-
rique Alfonseca, Ben Allison, Sophia Ananiadou, Abhishek Arun, Giuseppe Attardi, Necip Fazil
Ayan, Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm
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Jing Bai, Collin Baker, Kirk Baker, Jason Baldridge, Breck Baldwin, Tim Baldwin, Carmen
Banea, Marco Baroni, Regina Barzilay, Roberto Basili, Tilman Becker, Michael Bendersky,
Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Sabine Bergler, Shane Bergsma, Indrajit Bhattacharya, Pushpak Bhat-
tacharyya, Archana Bhattarai, Jiang Bian, Gann Bierner, Ann Bies, Arianna Bisazza, John Blitzer,
Michael Bloodgood, Phil Blunsom, Bernd Bohnet, Ondrej Bojar, Danushka Bollegala, Fran-
cis Bond, Kalina Bontcheva, Stefano Borgo, Alexandre Bouchard, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Kristy
Boyer, S.R.K. Branavan, Thorsten Brants, Chris Brew, Ted Briscoe, Samuel Brody, Sabine Buch-
holz, Paul Buitelaar, Paula Buttery, William Byrne, Donna Byron, Olga babko-malaya, Antal van
den Bosch
Aoife Cahill, Mary Elaine Califf, Chris Callison-Burch, Nicoletta Calzolari Zamorani, Nicola


Prompt:
i, Nicola
Cancedda, Yunbo Cao, Claire Cardie, Michael Carl, Xavier Carreras, John Carroll, Francisco
Casacuberta, Vittorio Castelli, Asli Celikyilmaz, Mauro Cettolo, Joyce Chai, Nate Chambers,
Yee Seng Chan, Ming-Wei Chang, Pi-Chuan Chang, Berlin Chen, Chia-Ping Chen, John Chen,
Keh-Jiann Chen, Xueqi Cheng, Colin Cherry, David Chiang, Christian Chiarcos, Hai Leong
Chieu, Laura Chiticariu, Yejin Choi, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Tat-Seng Chua, Ken Church, Alexan-
der Clark, Shay Cohen, Trevor Cohn, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Marta Ruiz Costa Jussa, Dan
Cristea, Hang Cui, Aron Culotta, James Cussens, Chaoliu Chaoliu
Walter Daelemans, Ido Dagan, R. I. Damper, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Van Dang, Lau-
rence Danlos, Dipanjan Das, Hal Daume, Gerard De Melo, Guy De Pauw, Steve DeNeefe, John
DeNero, Vera Demberg, Yasuharu Den, Pascal Denis, Markus Dickinson, Mike Dillinger, Xi-
aowen Ding, Kohji Dohsaka, John Dowding, Doug Downey, Markus Dreyer, Rebecca Dridan,


Prompt:
Rebecca Dridan,
Jinhua Du, Kevin Duh, Chris Dyer, Marc Dymetman
Judith Eckle-Kohler, Koji Eguchi, Andreas Eisele, Jacob Eisenstein, Jason Eisner, Michael El-
hadad
Benoit Favre, Anna Feldman, Christiane Fellbaum, Raquel Fernandez, Margaret Fleck, Dan
Flickinger, Radu Florian, Corina Forascu, Kate Forbes-Riley, George Foster, Anette Frank, Bob
Frank, Dayne Freitag, Kotaro Funakoshi
Michel Galley, Michael Gamon, Kavita Ganesan, Juri Ganitkevitch, Wei Gao, Claire Gardent,
Nikesh Garera, Michael Gasser, Albert Gatt, Dmitriy Genzel, Kallirroi Georgila, Sean Gerrish,
Daniel Gildea, Jennifer Gillenwater, Dan Gillick, Kevin Gimpel, Roxana Girju, Claudio Giu-
liano, Amir Globerson, Yoav Goldberg, Sharon Goldwater, Julio Gonzalo, Cyril Goutte, Joao
Graca, Spence Green, Charlie Greenbacker, Stephan Greene, Ralph Grishman, Jiafeng Guo, Iryna
Gurevych, Adria de Gispert, Josef van Genabith
Nizar Habash, Ben Hachey, Barry Haddow, Patrick Haffner, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, David Hall,


Prompt:
David Hall,
Keith Hall, Xianpei Han, Jirka Hana, Sanda Harabagiu, Christian Hardmeier, Kazi Saidul Hasan,
Sasa Hasan, Chikara Hashimoto, Koiti Hasida, Ahmed Hassan, Helen Hastie, Katsuhiko Hayashi,
Xiaodong He, Zhongjun He, Jeffrey Heinz, John Henderson, Iris Hendrickx, Graeme Hirst, Hieu
Hoang, Julia Hockenmaier, Matt Honnibal, Mark Hopkins, Veronique Hoste, Eduard Hovy, Paul
Hsu, Fei Huang, Liang Huang, Minlie Huang, Ruihong Huang, Zhongqiang Huang, Mans Hulden
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Nancy Ide, Gonzalo Iglesias, Ryu Iida, Nitin Indurkhya, Grant Ingersoll, Diana Inkpen, Pierre
Isabelle, Mitsuru Ishizuka, Tatsuya Izuha, Aranta Diaz de Ilarraza, Gary Lee
Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi, Heng Ji, Sittichai Jiampojamarn, Jing Jiang, Wenbin Jiang, Richard Jo-
hansson, Howard Johnson, Mark Johnson, Rie Johnson, Doug Jones, Vanja Josifovski
Min-Yen Kan, Damianos Karakos, Daisuke Kawahara, Tatsuya Kawahara, Jun’ichi Kazama,
Frank Keller, Andre Kempe, Shahram Khadivi, Emre Kiciman, Bernd Kiefer, Jungi Kim, Su Nam


Prompt:
Jungi Kim, Su Nam
Kim, Katrin Kirchhoff, Ioannis Klapaftis, Thomas Kleinbauer, Alexandre Klementiev, Kevin
Knight, Philipp Koehn, Rob Koeling, Oskar Kohonen, Kazunori Komatani, Greg Kondrak, Moshe
Koppel, Anna Korhonen, Andras Kornai, Zornitsa Kozareva, Emiel Krahmer, Lun-Wei Ku, San-
dra Kuebler, Marco Kuhlmann, Roland Kuhn, Seth Kulick, Tom Kwiatkowski, Oi Yee Kwong
Mikel L. Forcada, Wai Lam, Mathias Lambert, Felipe Langlais, Mirella Lapata, Alberto Lavelli,
Alon Lavie, Yoong Keok Lee, Oliver Lemon, James Lester, Gregor Leusch, Gina-Anne Levow,
Roger Levy, William Lewis, Fangtao Li, Haizhou Li, Hang Li, Shoushan Li, Xiao Li, Zhifei Li,
Percy Liang, Shasha Liao, Chuan-Jie Lin, Ken Litkowski, Marina Litvak, Bing Liu, Fei Liu, Qun
Liu, Yan Liu, Yang Liu, Yi Liu, Elena Lloret, Adam Lopez, Annie Louis, Xiaofei Lu, Yue Lu,
Yajuan Lv, Keith vander Linden
Bin Ma, Yanjun Ma, Klaus Macherey, Wolfgang Macherey, Nitin Madnani, Suresh Manandhar,


Prompt:
Suresh Manandhar,
Gideon Mann, Christopher Manning, Daniel Marcu, Katja Markert, Konstantin Markov, Erwin
Marsi, Andre Martins, Yuval Marton, Spyros Matsoukas, Yuichiroh Matsubayashi, Yuji Mat-
sumoto, Takuya Matsuzaki, Evgeny Matusov, Arne Mauser, Jon May, Diana Maynard, Andrew
McCallum, Diana McCarthy, David McClosky, Kathy McCoy, Ryan McDonald, Tara McIn-
tosh, Kathy McKeown, Paul McNamee, Arul Menezes, Paola Merlo, Donald Metzler, Adam
Meyers, Haitao Mi, Jeff Mielke, Rada Mihalcea, Yusuke Miyao, Saif Mohammad, Emad Mo-
hammed, Behrang Mohit, Karo Moilanen, Dan Moldovan, Christian Monson, Christof Monz,
Taesun Moon, Robert Moore, Roser Morante, Hamish Morgan, Alessandro Moschitti, Smaranda
Muresan, Gabriel Murray, Markos Mylonakis
Toshiaki Nakazawa, Preslav Nakov, Tahira Nassem, Vivi Nastase, Roberto Navigli, Mark-Jan
Nederhof, Graham Neubig, G¨unter Neumann, Hwee Tou Ng, Vincent Ng, Jian-Yun Nie, Zaiqing
Nie, Joakim Nivre, Gertjan van Noord


Prompt:
Gertjan van Noord
Stephan Oepen, Jong-Hoon Oh, Manabu Okumura, Constantin Orasan
Martha Palmer, Sinno Pan, Bo Pang, Ivandre Paraboni, Christopher Parisien, Kristen P. Parton,
Becky Passonneau, Siddharth Patwardhan, Michael Paul, Matthias Paulik, Adam Pauls, Adam
Pease, Fuchun Peng, Jing Peng, Gerald Penn, Marco Pennacchiotti, Slav Petrov, Sasa Petro-
vic, Daniele Pighin, Manfred Pinkal, Elias Ponvert, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Hoifung Poon, An-
drei Popescu-Belis, Maja Popovic, Fred Popowich, Matt Post, Christopher Potts, David Powers,
Sameer Pradhan, Rashmi Prasad, Daniel Preotiuc, Adam Przepi´orkowski, Matthew Purver, James
Pustejovsky, Sampo Pyysalo
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Ariadna Quattoni
Rob Gaizauskas, Drago Radev, Dragomir Radev, Kira Radinsky, Hema Raghavan, Altaf Rah-
man, Daniel Ramage, Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Owen Rambow, Delip Rao, Ari Rappoport, An-
toine Raux, Sujith Ravi, Emmanuel Rayner, Roi Reichart, Ehud Reiter, Norbert Reithinger, Se-


Prompt:
Norbert Reithinger, Se-
bastian Riedel, Jason Riesa, Stefan Riezler, German Rigau, Laura Rimell, Eric Ringger, Alan
Ritter, Brian Roark, Horacio Rodr´ıguez, Carolyn Rose, Andrew Rosenberg, Dan Roth, Vasile
Rus, Alexander Rush, Graham Russell, Anton Rytting
Soo Ngee Koh, Kenji Sagae, Hassan Sajjad, Hasim Sak, Tapio Salakoski, Murat Saraclar, Anoop
Sarkar, Sudeshna Sarkar, Christina Sauper, David Schlangen, Helmut Schmid, Nathan Schnei-
der, William Schuler, Sabine Schulte im Walde, Hinrich Sch¨utze, Satoshi Sekine, Jean Senellart,
Violeta Seretan, Hendra Setiawan, Dipti Sharma, Libin Shen, Wade Shen, Shuming Shi, Eyal
Shnarch, Luo Si, Candy Sidner, Michel Simard, Khalil Sima’an, Gabriel Skantze, Otakar Smrz,
Rion Snow, Ben Snyder, Stephen Soderland, Yang Song, Youngin Song, Lucia Specia, Caroline
Sporleder, Rohini Srihari, Manfred Stede, Mark Steedman, Josef Steinberger, Amanda Stent,
Svetlana Stoyanchev, Veselin Stoyanov, Michael Strube, Keh-Yih Su, Fabian Suchanek, Weiwei


Prompt:
Fabian Suchanek, Weiwei
Sun, Mihai Surdeanu, Hisami Suzuki, Jun Suzuki, Stan Szpakowicz, Idan Szpektor, Sien Moens,
Diarmuid ´o S´eaghdha
Hiroya Takamura, Koichi Takeda, David Talbot, Partha Talukdar, Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Ste-
fan Thater, Mariet Theune, Joerg Tiedemann, Christoph Tillmann, Ivan Titov, Cigdem Toprak,
Kristina Toutanova, Roy Tromble, Junichi Tsujii, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Dan Tuﬁs
Jakob Uszkoreit, Masao Utiyama
Benjamin Van Durme, Lucy Vanderwende, Vasudeva Varma, Tony Veale, Paola Velardi, Marc
Vilain, David Vilar, Aline Villavicencio, Sami Virpioja, Andreas Vlachos, Piek Vossen
Marilyn Walker, Hanna Wallach, Michael Walsh, Stephen Wan, Xiaojun Wan, Haifeng Wang,
Hsin-Min Wang, Leo Wanner, Taro Watanabe, Yotaro Watanabe, Bonnie Webber, Julie Weeds,
Daniel S. Weld, Ben Wellner, Ji-Rong Wen, Michael Wiegand, Jason Williams, Theresa Wilson,
Shuly Wintner, John Wong, Kam-Fai Wong, Tak-Lam Wong, Kristian Woodsend, Chung-Hsien
Wu, Xianchao Wu, Fei Wu


Prompt:
Wu, Xianchao Wu, Fei Wu
Yunqing Xia, Lei Xie, Shasha Xie, Deyi Xiong, Gu Xu, Peng Xu, Nianwen Xue, Xiaobin Xue
Charles Yang, Muyun Yang, Shuang-Hong Yang, Roman Yangarber, Tae Yano, Alexander Yates,
Xing Yi, Scott Wen-Tau Yih, Anssi Yli-Jyra, Dong Yu, Kai Yu, Liang-Chih Yu, Yisong Yue,
Deniz Yuret, Yichang Yichang
Fabio Zanzotto, Jakub Zavrel, Klaus Zechner, Dmitry Zelenko, Richard Zens, Torsten Zesch,
Luke Zettlemoyer, ChengXiang Zhai, Bing Zhang, Duo Zhang, Hui Zhang, Joy Zhang, Min
Zhang, Qi Zhang, Yi Zhang, Yue Zhang, Liu Zhanyi, Bing Zhao, Jun Zhao, Shiqi Zhao, Tiejun
Zhao, Jing Zheng, Guodong Zhou, Qiang Zhou, Michael Zock, Ingrid Zukerman


Prompt:
Wu, Xianchao Wu, Fei Wu
Yunqing Xia, Lei Xie, Shasha Xie, Deyi Xiong, Gu Xu, Peng Xu, Nianwen Xue, Xiaobin Xue
Charles Yang, Muyun Yang, Shuang-Hong Yang, Roman Yangarber, Tae Yano, Alexander Yates,
Xing Yi, Scott Wen-Tau Yih, Anssi Yli-Jyra, Dong Yu, Kai Yu, Liang-Chih Yu, Yisong Yue,
Deniz Yuret, Yichang Yichang
Fabio Zanzotto, Jakub Zavrel, Klaus Zechner, Dmitry Zelenko, Richard Zens, Torsten Zesch,
Luke Zettlemoyer, ChengXiang Zhai, Bing Zhang, Duo Zhang, Hui Zhang, Joy Zhang, Min
Zhang, Qi Zhang, Yi Zhang, Yue Zhang, Liu Zhanyi, Bing Zhao, Jun Zhao, Shiqi Zhao, Tiejun
Zhao, Jing Zheng, Guodong Zhou, Qiang Zhou, Michael Zock, Ingrid Zukerman
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Prompt:
Organizing Committee
General Chair:
Hinrich Schuetze, University of Munich
Program Co-Chairs:
Pascale Fung, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Massimo Poesio, University of Essex
Local Chair:
Svetla Koeva, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Workshop Co-Chairs:
Aoife Cahill, Educational Testing Service
Qun Liu, Dublin City University & Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tutorial Co-Chairs:
Johan Bos, University of Groningen
Keith Hall, Google
Demo Co-Chairs:
Miriam Butt, University of Konstanz
Sarmad Hussain, Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science
Publication Chairs:
Roberto Navigli, Sapienza University of Rome (Chair)
Jing-Shin Chang, National Chi Nan University (Co-Chair)
Stefano Faralli, Sapienza University of Rome
Faculty Advisors (Student Research Workshop):
Steven Bethard, University of Colorado Boulder & KU Leuven
Preslav I. Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Feiyu Xu, DFKI, German Research Center for Artiﬁcial Intelligence


Prompt:
elligence
Student Chairs (Student Research Workshop):
Anik Dey, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Eva Vecchi, Università di Trento
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Sebastian Krause, DFKI, German Research Center for Artiﬁcial Intelligence
Ivelina Nikolova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Mentoring Chair:
Leo Wanner, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Publicity Co-Chairs:
Anisava Miltenova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Ivan Derzhanski, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Anna Korhonen, University of Cambridge
Business Manager:
Priscilla Rasmussen, ACL
Area Chairs:
Frank Keller, University of Edinburgh
Roger Levy, UC San Diego
Amanda Stent, AT&T
David Suendermann, DHBW, Stuttgart, Germany
Andrew Kehler, UC San Diego
Becky Passonneau, Columbia
Hang Li, Huawei Technologies
Nancy Ide, Vassar
Piek Vossen, Freie Universitat Amsterdam
Philipp Cimiano, University of Bielefeld
Sabine Schulte im Walde, University of Stuttgart
Dekang Lin, Google
Chiori Hori, NICT, Japan
Keh-Yih Su, Behavior Design Corporation
Roland Kuhn, NRC


Prompt:
Roland Kuhn, NRC
Dekai Wu, HKUST
Benjamin Snyder, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Thamar Solorio, University of Texas-Dallas
Ehud Reiter, University of Aberdeen
Massimiliano Ciaramita, Google
Ken Church, IBM
Carlo Strapparava, FBK
Tomaz Erjavec, Jožef Stefan Institute
Adam Prziepiorkowski, Polish Academy of Sciences
Patrick Pantel, Microsoft
Owen Rambow, Columbia
Chris Dyer, CMU
Jason Eisner, Johns Hopkins
Jennifer Chu-Carroll, IBM
Bernardo Magnini, FBK
Lluis Marquez, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
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Alessandro Moschitti, University of Trento
Claire Cardie, Cornell
Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas
Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Microsoft
Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp
Dan Roth, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Alex Koller, University of Potsdam
Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania
Jamie Henderson, XRCE
Sadao Kurohashi, University of Kyoto
Yuji Matsumoto, Nara Institute of S&T
Heng Ji, CUNY
Marie-Francine Moens, KU Leuven
Hwee Tou Ng, NU Singapore


Prompt:
Hwee Tou Ng, NU Singapore
Program Committee:
Abend Omri, Abney Steven, Abu-Jbara Amjad, Agarwal Apoorv, Agirre Eneko, Aguado-de-Cea
Guadalupe, Ahrenberg Lars, Akkaya Cem, Alfonseca Enrique, Alishahi Afra, Allauzen Alexan-
der, Altun Yasemin, Androutsopoulos Ion, Araki Masahiro, Artiles Javier, Artzi Yoav,Asahara
Masayuki, Asher Nicholas, Atserias Batalla Jordi, Attardi Giuseppe, Ayan Necip Fazil
Baker Collin, Baldridge Jason, Baldwin Timothy, Banchs Rafael E., Banea Carmen, Bangalore
Srinivas, Baroni Marco, Barrault Loïc, Barreiro Anabela, Basili Roberto, Bateman John, Bechet
Frederic, Beigman Klebanov Beata, Bel Núria, Benajiba Yassine, Bender Emily M., Bender-
sky Michael, Benotti Luciana, Bergler Sabine, Besacier Laurent, Bethard Steven, Bicknell Klin-
ton, Biemann Chris, Bikel Dan, Birch Alexandra, Bisazza Arianna, Blache Philippe, Bloodgood
Michael, Bod Rens, Boitet Christian, Bojar Ondrej, Bond Francis, Bontcheva Kalina, Bordino


Prompt:
Bontcheva Kalina, Bordino
Ilaria, Bosch Sonja, Boschee Elizabeth, Botha Jan, Bouma Gosse, Boye Johan, Boyer Kristy,
Bracewell David, Branco António, Brants Thorsten, Brew Chris, Briscoe Ted, Bu Fan, Buitelaar
Paul, Bunescu Razvan, Busemann Stephan, Byrne Bill, Byron Donna
Cabrio Elena, Cahill Aoife, Cahill Lynne, Callison-Burch Chris, Calzolari Nicoletta, Campbell
Nick, Cancedda Nicola, Cao Hailong, Caragea Cornelia, Carberry Sandra, Carde´nosa Jesus, Cardie
Claire, Carl Michael, Carpuat Marine, Carreras Xavier, Carroll John, Casacuberta Francisco,
Caselli Tommaso, Cassidy Steve, Cassidy Taylor, Celikyilmaz Asli, Cerisara Christophe, Cham-
bers Nate, Chang Jason, Chang Kai-Wei, Chang Ming-Wei, Chang Jing-Shin, Chelba Ciprian,
Chen Wenliang, Chen Zheng, Chen Wenliang, Chen John, Chen Boxing, Chen David, Cheng
Pu-Jen, Cherry Colin, Chiang David, Choi Yejin, Choi Key-Sun, Christodoulopoulos Christos,


Prompt:
Christos,
Chrupała Grzegorz, Chu-Carroll Jennifer, Clark Stephen, Clark Peter, Cohn Trevor, Collier Nigel,
Conroy John, Cook Paul, Coppola Bonaventura, Corazza Anna, Core Mark, Costa-jussà Marta R.,
Cristea Dan, Croce Danilo, Culotta Aron, da Cunha Iria
Daelemans Walter, Dagan Ido, Daille Beatrice, Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil Cristian, Dang Hoa
Trang, Danlos Laurence, Das Dipanjan, de Gispert Adrià, De La Clergerie Eric, de Marneffe
Marie-Catherine, de Melo Gerard, Declerck Thierry, Delmonte Rodolfo, Demberg Vera, DeNero
John, Deng Hongbo, Denis Pascal, Deoras Anoop, DeVault David, Di Eugenio Barbara, Di Fab-
brizio Giuseppe, Diab Mona, Diaz de Ilarraza Arantza, Diligenti Michelangelo, Dinarelli Marco,
Dipper Stefanie, Do Quang, Downey Doug, Dragut Eduard, Dreyer Markus, Du Jinhua, Duh
Kevin, Dymetman Marc
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Eberle Kurt, Eguchi Koji, Eisele Andreas, Elhadad Michael, Erk Katrin, Esuli Andrea, Evert Stefan


Prompt:
Esuli Andrea, Evert Stefan
Fader Anthony, Fan James, Fang Hui, Favre Benoit, Fazly Afsaneh, Federico Marcello, Feldman
Anna, Feldman Naomi, Fellbaum Christiane, Feng Junlan, Fernandez Raquel, Filippova Katja,
Finch Andrew, Fišer Darja, Fleck Margaret, Forcada Mikel, Foster Jennifer, Foster George, Frank
Stella, Frank Stefan L., Frank Anette, Fraser Alexander
Gabrilovich Evgeniy, Gaizauskas Robert, Galley Michel, Gamon Michael, Ganitkevitch Juri, Gao
Jianfeng, Gardent Claire, Garrido Guillermo, Gatt Albert, Gavrilidou Maria, Georgila Kallirroi,
Gesmundo Andrea, Gildea Daniel, Gill Alastair, Gillenwater Jennifer, Gillick Daniel, Girju Rox-
ana, Giuliano Claudio, Gliozzo Alﬁo, Goh Chooi-Ling, Goldberg Yoav, Goldwasser Dan, Gold-
water Sharon, Gonzalo Julio, Grau Brigitte, Green Nancy, Greene Stephan, Grefenstette Gregory,
Grishman Ralph, Guo Jiafeng, Gupta Rahul, Gurevych Iryna, Gustafson Joakim, Guthrie Louise,
Gutiérrez Yoan


Prompt:
Gutiérrez Yoan
Habash Nizar, Hachey Ben, Haddow Barry, Hahn Udo, Hall David, Harabagiu Sanda, Hardmeier
Christian, Hashimoto Chikara, Hayashi Katsuhiko, He Xiaodong, He Zhongjun, Heid Uli, Heinz
Jeffrey, Henderson John, Hendrickx Iris, Hermjakob Ulf, Hirst Graeme, Hoang Hieu, Hocken-
maier Julia, Hoffart Johannes, Hopkins Mark, Horak Ales, Hori Chiori, Hoste Veronique, Hovy
Eduard, Hsieh Shu-Kai, Hsu Wen-Lian, Huang Xuanjing, Huang Minlie, Huang Liang, Huang
Chu-Ren, Huang Xuanjing, Huang Liang, Huang Fei, Hwang Mei-Yuh
Iglesias Gonzalo, Ikbal Shajith, Ilisei Iustina, Inkpen Diana, Isabelle Pierre, Isahara Hitoshi, Itty-
cheriah Abe
Jaeger T. Florian, Jagarlamudi Jagadeesh, Jiampojamarn Sittichai, Jiang Xing, Jiang Wenbin, Jiang
Jing, Johansson Richard, Johnson Mark, Johnson Howard, Jurgens David
Kageura Kyo, Kan Min-Yen, Kanoulas Evangelos, Kanzaki Kyoko, Kawahara Daisuke, Keizer Si-
mon, Kelleher John, Kempe Andre, Keshtkar Fazel, Khadivi Shahram, Kilgarriff Adam, King


Prompt:
Kilgarriff Adam, King
Tracy Holloway, Kit Chunyu, Knight Kevin, Koehn Philipp, Koeling Rob, Kolomiyets Olek-
sandr, Komatani Kazunori, Kondrak Grzegorz, Kong Fang, Kopp Stefan, Koppel Moshe, Kordoni
Valia, Kozareva Zornitsa, Kozhevnikov Mikhail, Krahmer Emiel, Kremer Gerhard, Kudo Taku,
Kuhlmann Marco, Kuhn Roland, Kumar Shankar, Kundu Gourab, Kurland Oren
Lam Wai, Lamar Michael, Lambert Patrik, Langlais Phillippe, Lapalme Guy, Lapata Mirella, Laws
Florian, Leacock Claudia, Lee Yoong Keok, Lee Lin-shan, Lee Gary Geunbae, Lee Yoong Keok,
Lee Sungjin, Lee John, Lefevre Fabrice, Lemon Oliver, Lenci Alessandro, Leong Ben, Leusch
Gregor, Levenberg Abby, Levy Roger, Li Linlin, Li Fangtao, Li Yan, Li Haibo, Li Wenjie, Li
Shoushan, Li Qi, Li Haizhou, Li Tao, Liao Shasha, Lin Dekang, Lin Ziheng, Lin Hui, Lin Ziheng,
Lin Thomas, Litvak Marina, Liu Yang, Liu Bing, Liu Qun, Liu Ting, Liu Fei, Liu Zhiyuan, Liu


Prompt:
Liu Fei, Liu Zhiyuan, Liu
Yiqun, Liu Chang, Liu Zhiyuan, Liu Jingjing, Liu Yiqun, Ljubeši´c Nikola, Lloret Elena, Lopez
Adam, Lopez-Cozar Ramon, Louis Annie, Lu Wei, Lu Xiaofei, Lu Yue, Luca Dini, Luo Xiao-
qiang, Lv Yajuan
Ma Yanjun, Macherey Wolfgang, Macherey Klaus, Madnani Nitin, Maegaard Bente, Magnini
Bernardo, Maier Andreas, Manandhar Suresh, Marcu Daniel, Markantonatou Stella, Markert Katja,
Marsi Erwin, Martin James H., Martinez David, Mason Rebecca, Matsubara Shigeki, Matsumoto
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Yuji, Matsuzaki Takuya, Mauro Cettolo, Mauser Arne, May Jon, Mayﬁeld James, Maynard Di-
ana, McCarthy Diana, McClosky David, McCoy Kathy, McCrae John Philip, McNamee Paul, Meij
Edgar, Mejova Yelena, Mellish Chris, Merlo Paola, Metze Florian, Metzler Donald, Meyers Adam,
Mi Haitao, Mihalcea Rada, Miltsakaki Eleni, Minkov Einat, Mitchell Margaret, Miyao Yusuke,
Mochihashi Daichi, Moens Marie-Francine, Mohammad Saif, Moilanen Karo, Monson Christian,


Prompt:
Monson Christian,
Montes Manuel, Monz Christof, Moon Taesun, Moore Robert, Morante Roser, Morarescu Paul,
Mueller Thomas, Munteanu Dragos, Murawaki Yugo, Muresan Smaranda, Myaeng Sung-Hyon,
Mylonakis Markos
Nakagawa Tetsuji, Nakano Mikio, Nakazawa Toshiaki, Nakov Preslav, Naradowsky Jason, Naseem
Tahira, Nastase Vivi, Navarro Borja, Navigli Roberto, Nazarenko Adeline, Nederhof Mark-Jan,
Negri Matteo, Nenkova Ani, Neubig Graham, Neumann Guenter, Ng Vincent, Ngai Grace, Nguyen
ThuyLinh, Nivre Joakim, Nowson Scott
Och Franz, Odijk Jan, Oﬂazer Kemal, Oh Jong-Hoon, Okazaki Naoaki, Oltramari Alessandro,
Orasan Constantin, Osborne Miles, Osenova Petya, Ott Myle, Ovesdotter Alm Cecilia
Padó Sebastian, Palmer Martha, Palmer Alexis, Pang Bo, Pantel Patrick, Paraboni Ivandre, Pardo
Thiago, Paris Cecile, Paroubek Patrick, Patwardhan Siddharth, Paul Michael, Paulik Matthias,
Pearl Lisa, Pedersen Ted, Pedersen Bolette, Pedersen Ted, Peñas Anselmo, Penn Gerald, Perez-


Prompt:
Penn Gerald, Perez-
Rosas Veronica, Peters Wim, Petrov Slav, Petrovic Sasa, Piasecki Maciej, Pighin Daniele, Pinkal
Manfred, Piperidis Stelios, Piskorski Jakub, Pitler Emily, Plank Barbara, Ponzetto Simone Paolo,
Popescu Octavian, Popescu-Belis Andrei, Popovi´c Maja, Potts Christopher, Pradhan Sameer, Prager
John, Prasad Rashmi, Prószéky Gábor, Pulman Stephen, Punyakanok Vasin, Purver Matthew,
Pustejovsky James
Qazvinian Vahed, Qian Xian, Qu Shaolin, Quarteroni Silvia, Quattoni Ariadna, Quirk Chris
Raaijmakers Stephan, Rahman Altaf, Rambow Owen, Rao Delip, Rappoport Ari, Ravi Sujith,
Rayner Manny, Recasens Marta, Regneri Michaela, Reichart Roi, Reitter David, Resnik Philip,
Riccardi Giuseppe, Riedel Sebastian, Riesa Jason, Rieser Verena, Riezler Stefan, Rigau German,
Ringaard Michael, Ritter Alan, Roark Brian, Rodriguez Horacio, Rohde Hannah, Rosenberg An-
drew, Rosso Paolo, Rozovskaya Alla, Rus Vasile, Rusu Delia


Prompt:
Rus Vasile, Rusu Delia
Sagae Kenji, Sahakian Sam, Saint-Dizier Patrick, Samdani Rajhans, Sammons Mark, Sangal Ra-
jeev, Saraclar Murat, Sarkar Anoop, Sassano Manabu, Satta Giorgio, Saurí Roser, Scaiano Mar-
tin, Schlangen David, Schmid Helmut, Schneider Nathan, Schulte im Walde Sabine, Schwenk
Holger, Segond Frederique, Seki Yohei, Sekine Satoshi, Senellart Jean, Setiawan Hendra, Sev-
eryn Aliaksei, Shanker Vijay, Sharma Dipti, Sharoff Serge, Shi Shuming, Shi Xiaodong, Shi
Shuming, Shutova Ekaterina, Si Xiance, Sidner Candace, Silva Mario J., Sima’an Khalil, Simard
Michel, Skantze Gabriel, Small Kevin, Smith Noah A., Smith Nathaniel, Smrz Pavel, Smrz Pavel,
Šnajder Jan, Snyder Benjamin, Søgaard Anders, Solorio Thamar, Somasundaran Swapna, Song
Yangqiu, Spitovsky Valentin, Sporleder Caroline, Sprugnoli Rachele, Srikumar Vivek, Stede Man-
fred, Steedman Mark, Steinberger Ralf, Stevenson Mark, Stone Matthew, Stoyanov Veselin, Strube


Prompt:
Stoyanov Veselin, Strube
Michael, Strzalkowski Tomek, Stymne Sara, Su Keh-Yih, Su Jian, Sun Ang, Surdeanu Mihai,
Suzuki Hisami, Schwartz Roy, Szpakowicz Stan, Szpektor Idan
Täckström Oscar, Takamura Hiroya, Talukdar Partha, Tatu Marta, Taylor Sarah, Tenbrink Thora,
Thater Stefan, Tiedemann Jörg, Tillmann Christoph, Titov Ivan, Toivonen Hannu, Tokunaga Takenobu,
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Tonelli Sara, Toutanova Kristina, Tsarfaty Reut, Tsochantaridis Ioannis, Tsujii Jun’ichi, Tsukada
Hajime, Tsuruoka Yoshimasa, Tuﬁs Dan, Tur Gokhan, Turney Peter, Tymoshenko Kateryna
Uchimoto Kiyotaka, Udupa Raghavendra, Uryupina Olga, Utiyama Masao
Valitutti Alessandro, van den Bosch Antal, van der Plas Lonneke, Van Durme Benjamin, van
Genabith Josef, Van Huyssteen Gerhard, van Noord Gertjan, Vandeghinste Vincent, Veale Tony,
Velardi Paola, Verhagen Marc, Vetulani Zygmunt, Viethen Jette, Vieu Laure, Vilar David, Villavi-
cencio Aline, Virpioja Sami, Voorhees Ellen, Vossen Piek, Vuli´c Ivan


Prompt:
Vossen Piek, Vuli´c Ivan
Walker Marilyn, Wan Stephen, Wan Xiaojun, Wang Lu, Wang Chi, Wang Jun, Wang Haifeng,
Wang Mengqiu, Wang Quan, Wang Wen, Ward Nigel, Washtell Justin, Watanabe Taro, Webber
Bonnie, Wei Furu, Welty Chris, Wen Zhen, Wen Ji-Rong, Wen Zhen, Wicentowski Rich, Widdows
Dominic, Wiebe Jan, Williams Jason, Wilson Theresa, Wintner Shuly, Wong Kam-Fai, Woodsend
Kristian, Wooters Chuck, Wu Xianchao
Xiao Tong, Xiong Deyi, Xu Wei, Xu Jun, Xue Nianwen, Xue Xiaobing
Yan Rui, Yang Muyun, Yang Bishan, Yangarber Roman, Yano Tae, Yao Limin, Yates Alexander,
Yatskar Mark, Yih Wen-tau, Yli-Jyrä Anssi, Yu Bei, Yvon François
Zabokrtsky Zdenek, Zanzotto Fabio Massimo, Zens Richard, Zettlemoyer Luke, Zeyrek Deniz,
Zhang Yue, Zhang Min, Zhang Ruiqiang, Zhang Hao, Zhang Yue, Zhang Hui, Zhang Yi, Zhang
Joy Ying, Zhanyi Liu, Zhao Hai, Zhao Tiejun, Zhao Jun, Zhao Shiqi, Zheng Jing, Zhou Guodong,
Zhou Ming, Zhou Ke, Zhou Guodong, Zhou Ming, Zhou Guodong, Zhu Jingbo, Zhu Xiaodan,


Prompt:
Zhu Jingbo, Zhu Xiaodan,
Zock Michael, Zukerman Ingrid, Zweigenbaum Pierre.


Prompt:
Zhu Jingbo, Zhu Xiaodan,
Zock Michael, Zukerman Ingrid, Zweigenbaum Pierre.
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Prompt:
Organizing Committee
General Conference Chair
Daniel Marcu, ISI/USC
Program Committee Chairs
Kristina Toutanova, Microsoft Research
Hua Wu, Baidu
Local Arrangements Chair
David Yarowsky, Johns Hopkins University
Workshop Chairs
Jill Burstein, Educational Testing Service
Lluís Màrquez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Tutorial Chairs
Alex Fraser, University of Munich
Yang Liu, Tsinghua University
Publications Chairs
Alexander Koller, University of Potsdam
Yusuke Miyao, National Institute of Informatics Japan
We gratefully acknowledge the support of Ulla Behr, Anna Lukowiak, and Deyan Ginev.
Student Research Workshop Chairs
Ekaterina Kochmar, University of Cambridge
Annie Louis, University of Pennsylvania
Svitlana Volkova, Johns Hopkins University
Faculty Advisors for the Student Research Workshop
Bill Byrne, University of Cambridge
Jordan Boyd-Graber, University of Maryland
Demonstrations Chairs
Kalina Bontcheva, University of Shefﬁeld
Jingbo Zhu, Northeastern University China


Prompt:
ity China
Publicity Chair
Jason Riesa, Google
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Business Manager
Priscilla Rasmussen
Reviewing Coordinators
Mark Dredze, Johns Hopkins University
Jiang Guo, Harbin Institute of Technology
Conference Handbook Editor
Matt Post, Johns Hopkins University
Local Guide Editors
Juri Ganitkevitch, Johns Hopkins University
Ann Irvine, Johns Hopkins University
Student Volunteer Chair
Yuan Cao, Johns Hopkins University
Entertainment Chairs
Matt Gormley, Johns Hopkins University
Naomi Saphra, Johns Hopkins University
Graphic Design
Jeff Hayes, Jeff-Hayes.com
Meg Mitchell, Microsoft Research
Keisuke Sakaguchi, Johns Hopkins University
Local JHU/CLSP Administration
Laura Graham
Ruth Scally
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Program Committee
Program Committee Chairs
Kristina Toutanova, Microsoft Research
Hua Wu, Baidu
Area Chairs
Klinton Bicknell, Northwestern University
Asli Celikyilmaz, Microsoft Research
Micha Elsner, Ohio State University
Michael Strube, HITS gGmbH
Jacob Eisenstein, Georgia Institute of Technology


Prompt:
echnology
Jun Zhao, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois at Chicago
Ting Liu, Harbin Institute of Technology
Marius Pasca, Google Research
Mihai Surdeanu, University of Arizona
Nicoletta Calzolari, Institute of Computational Linguistics of the National Research Council
Nianwen Xue, Brandeis University
Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country
Kevin Duh, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Jason Eisner, Johns Hopkins University
Colin Cherry, National Research Council, Canada
Niyu Ge, IBM Research
Liang Huang, City University of New York
Yanjun Ma, Baidu
Michel Galley, Microsoft Research
Brian Roark, Google Research
Mamoru Komachi, Tokyo Metropolitan University
Miles Osborne, Johns Hopkins University
Alan Ritter, Carnegie Mellon University
Iryna Gurevych, Technische Universität Darmstadt
Percy Liang, Stanford University
Shiqi Zhao, Baidu
Yang Liu, University of Texas at Dallas
Scott Wen-tau Yih, Microsoft Research


Prompt:
Microsoft Research
Ciprian Chelba, Google Research
Xavier Carreras, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Slav Petrov, Google Research
Grzegorz Kondrak, University of Alberta
Primary Reviewers
Reviewers who are acknowledged by the program committee for providing one or more outstand-
ing reviews are marked with “*”.
Ahmed Abbasi, Omri Abend, Gilles Adda*, Željko Agi´c, Jan Alexandersson, Enrique Alfon-
seca, Afra Alishahi, Alexander Allauzen, Yasemin Altun, Ion Androutsopoulos*, Gabor Angeli*,
Masahiro Araki, Yuki Arase, Ron Artstein, Yoav Artzi*, Jordi Atserias Batalla, Giuseppe Attardi,
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Michael Auli
Olga Babko-Malaya, Anton Bakalov*, Timothy Baldwin*, Kalika Bali, Miguel Ballesteros, David
Bamman, Rafael E. Banchs, Carmen Banea, Srinivas Bangalore, Mohit Bansal, Marco Baroni,
Loïc Barrault, Anabela Barreiro, Regina Barzilay, Roberto Basili, John Bateman, Frederic Bechet,
Steve Beet, Núria Bel, Kedar Bellare, Anja Belz*, Jose Miguel Benedi, Jonathan Berant*, Tay-


Prompt:
Jonathan Berant*, Tay-
lor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Sabine Bergler, Shane Bergsma*, Nicole Beringer, Laurent Besacier, Steven
Bethard*, Chandra Bhagavatula, Suma Bhat, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Chris Biemann*, Ann Bies,
Graeme Blackwood, Phil Blunsom, Gemma Boleda, Danushka Bollegala, Francis Bond, Kalina
Bontcheva, Stefano Borgo, Antal van den Bosch, Alexandre Bouchard, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Jo-
han Boye, S.R.K. Branavan, António Branco*, Chris Brew, Ted Briscoe, Chris Brockett, Julian
Brooke, Paul Buitelaar, Razvan Bunescu, Wray Buntine, David Burkett, Stephan Busemann, Bill
Byrne
Elena Cabrio, Chris Callison-Burch, Marie Candito, Cornelia Caragea, Sandra Carberry, Jesus
Carde´nosa, Giuseppe Carenini, Marine Carpuat, Xavier Carreras, John Carroll, Francisco Casacu-
berta, Tommaso Caselli, Taylor Cassidy, Vittorio Castelli, Daniel Cer, Christophe Cerisara, Soumen
Chakrabarti, Nathanael Chambers, Yee Seng Chan, Kai-Wei Chang, Wanxiang Che, Ciprian Chelba,


Prompt:
Ciprian Chelba,
Boxing Chen, Hsin-Hsi Chen, John Chen, Chen Chen, Zheng Chen, Xueqi Cheng, Jackie Chi Kit
Cheung, David Chiang, Laura Chiticariu*, Yejin Choi*, Monojit Choudhury, Grzegorz Chrupała,
Jennifer Chu-Carroll*, Cindy Chung, Philipp Cimiano, Stephen Clark*, Ann Clifton, Shay B.
Cohen, Trevor Cohn, Nigel Collier, Gao Cong, John Conroy, Paul Cook, Bonaventura Coppola,
Anna Corazza, Mark Core, Marta R. Costa-jussà, Danilo Croce, Paul Crook, Xiaodong Cui, Iria
da Cunha*
Beatrice Daille, Robert Daland, Hoa Trang Dang, Dipanjan Das*, Pradipto Das, Munmun De
Choudhury, John DeNero, Rodolfo Delmonte, Jean-Yves Delort, Estelle Delpech, Vera Demberg,
Pascal Denis, Michael Denkowski, Leon Derczynski, Jacob Devlin, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Mona
Diab, Markus Dickinson, Brian Dillon, Marco Dinarelli, Stefanie Dipper*, Bill Dolan*, Doug
Downey, Mark Dras, Mark Dredze, Markus Dreyer, Gregory Druck, Lan Du, Jinhua Du, Ewan
Dunbar*, Greg Durrett*, Chris Dyer, Marc Dymetman, Myroslava Dzikovska


Prompt:
Myroslava Dzikovska
Kurt Eberle, Judith Eckle-Kohler*, Koji Eguchi, Yo Ehara, Patrick Ehlen, Vladimir Eidelman,
Andreas Eisele, Jason Eisner, Michael Elhadad, Ahmad Emami, Klaus-Peter Engelbrecht, Katrin
Erk*, Andrea Esuli
Angela Fahrni, Mauro Falcone, James Fan, Hui Fang, Faisal Farooq, Manaal Faruqui, Benoit
Favre, Afsaneh Fazly*, Anna Feldman, Christiane Fellbaum, Minwei Feng, Raquel Fernandez,
Katja Filippova, Andrew Finch, Darja Fišer, Margaret Fleck, Mikel Forcada, Karën Fort, George
Foster, Jennifer Foster, James Foulds*, Gil Francopoulo, Anette Frank*, Michael Frank, Stella
Frank, Reva Freedman*, Markus Freitag
Evgeniy Gabrilovich*, Robert Gaizauskas*, Michael Gamon, Kuzman Ganchev, Sudeep Gandhe,
Juri Ganitkevitch, Yue Gao, Wei Gao, Claire Gardent, Matt Gardner, Guillermo Garrido, Albert
Gatt, Maria Gavrilidou, Josef van Genabith, Dmitriy Genzel, Kallirroi Georgila, Matthew Ger-
ber, Daniel Gildea, Alastair Gill, Jennifer Gillenwater*, Kevin Gimpel*, Adrià de Gispert, Alﬁo


Prompt:
Adrià de Gispert, Alﬁo
Gliozzo, Yoav Goldberg*, Dan Goldwasser, Matthew R. Gormley*, Cyril Goutte*, Carlos Gómez-
Rodríguez, Joao Graca, Brigitte Grau, Nancy Green, Spence Green*, Edward Grefenstette*, Gre-
gory Grefenstette*, Justin Grimmer, Ralph Grishman, Marco Guerini, Camille Guinaudeau, Ji-
afeng Guo, Weiwei Guo, Yuhong Guo, Sonal Gupta, Iryna Gurevych, Joakim Gustafson
Ben Hachey*, Barry Haddow, Masato Hagiwara*, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, John Hale, David Hall*,
Keith Hall, Bo Han*, Xianpei Han, Kazi Saidul Hasan, Saša Hasan, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson*,
Hany Hassan, Wei He, Zhongjun He, Yifan He, Xiaodong He, Kenneth Heaﬁeld, Ulrich Heid,
James Henderson*, John Henderson, Tsutomu Hirao, Keikichi Hirose, Graeme Hirst, Anna Hjal-
x

marsson, Hieu Hoang, Julia Hockenmaier, Johannes Hoffart, Kristy Hollingshead, Helmut Ho-
racek, Ales Horak, Chiori Hori, Eduard Hovy, Estevam Hruschka, Shu-Kai Hsieh, Bo-June (Paul)


Prompt:
Bo-June (Paul)
Hsu, Yuening Hu, Fei Huang, Fei Huang, Ruihong Huang, Liang Huang, Xuanjing Huang, Zhongqiang
Huang, Rebecca Hwa*
Nancy Ide, Ryu Iida, Shajith Ikbal, Iustina Ilisei, Diana Inkpen, Kentaro Inui, Ann Irvine, Hitoshi
Isahara
Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi, Rahul Jha, Yangfeng Ji, Jing Jiang, Richard Johansson, Mark Johnson,
Arne Jonsson
Kyo Kageura, Ozlem Kalinli, Min-Yen Kan*, Pallika Kanani, Evangelos Kanoulas, Kyoko Kan-
zaki, Damianos Karakos, Hisashi Kashima, Hideto Kazawa, Simon Keizer, Frank Keller, Emre
Kiciman*, Bernd Kiefer, Jin-Dong Kim, Jungi Kim, Seungyeon Kim, Su Nam Kim, Tracy Hol-
loway King, Brian Kingsbury, Chunyu Kit, Ioannis Klapaftis, Alexandre Klementiev, Kevin Knight,
Alistair Knott, Philipp Koehn, Varada Kolhatkar, Oleksandr Kolomiyets, Kazunori Komatani,
Grzegorz Kondrak, Terry Koo, Stefan Kopp, Valia Kordoni, Anna Korhonen, Zornitsa Kozareva,
Jayant Krishnamurthy, Marco Kuhlmann*, Roland Kuhn, Shankar Kumar, A Kumaran, Polina


Prompt:
A Kumaran, Polina
Kuznetsova*, Sandra Kübler, Tom Kwiatkowski
Wai Lam, Mathias Lambert, Patrik Lambert, Phillippe Langlais*, Guy Lapalme, Romain Laroche,
Dominique Laurent, Joseph Le Roux, Sungjin Lee, Oliver Lemon, Alessandro Lenci, Chee Wee
Leong, Gina-Anne Levow, Roger Levy, Yan Li, Wenjie Li, Hang Li, Haizhou Li, Haibo Li,
Lishuang Li, Qi Li, Shoushan Li, Mu Li, Peng Li, Rui Li, Maria Liakata, Chin-Yew Lin, Dekang
Lin, Shou-de Lin, Xiao Ling, Ken Litkowski, Fei Liu, Jing Liu, Kang Liu, Lemao Liu, Bing Liu,
Chang Liu, Yang Liu, Zhiyuan Liu, Qun Liu, Yiqun Liu, Eduardo Lleida Solano, Adam Lopez*,
Oier Lopez de Lacalle, Ramon Lopez-Cozar, Annie Louis*, Wei Lu, Michael Lucas, Marco Lui,
Franco M. Luque, Yajuan Lv
Klaus Macherey, Nitin Madnani*, Bente Maegaard, Mathew Magimai Doss, Andreas Maier, In-
derjeet Mani, Joseph Mariani, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Erwin Marsi*, James H. Martin,
Scott Martin*, David Martinez, André F. T. Martins*, Yuichiroh Matsubayashi, Yuji Matsumoto,


Prompt:
Yuji Matsumoto,
Takuya Matsuzaki, Arne Mauser, Jon May, Lluís Màrquez, Diana McCarthy, David McClosky*,
Kathy McCoy, Tara McIntosh*, Paul McNamee, Susan McRoy, Edgar Meij, Yelena Mejova, Ger-
ard de Melo, Arul Menezes, Fandong Meng, Florian Metze, Christian M. Meyer*, Adam Meyers,
Haitao Mi, Rada Mihalcea, Tomas Mikolov, Bonan Min, Yasuhiro Minami, Zhao-Yan Ming, Mar-
garet Mitchell, Marie-Francine Moens, Saif Mohammad, Behrang Mohit, Karo Moilanen, Monica
Monachini, Christian Monson, Manuel Montes, Christof Monz, Robert Moore*, Roser Morante,
Alessandro Moschitti*, Dana Movshovitz-Attias*, Yugo Murawaki, Smaranda Muresan, Sung-
hyon Myaeng
Seiichi Nakagawa, Preslav Nakov*, Ramesh Nallapati, Jason Naradowsky*, Tahira Naseem, Vivi
Nastase*, Borja Navarro, Roberto Navigli, Adeline Nazarenko, Mark-Jan Nederhof, Matteo Ne-
gri*, Ani Nenkova, John Nerbonne, Graham Neubig, Guenter Neumann, Hwee Tou Ng, Vincent


Prompt:
Hwee Tou Ng, Vincent
Ng, Dong Nguyen, Patrick Nguyen, Viet-An Nguyen, Jian-Yun Nie, Rodney Nielsen, Malvina
Nissim, Joakim Nivre*, Scott Nowson, Elmar Nöth
Brendan O’Connor*, Tim O’Donnell*, Douglas O’Shaughnessy, Jon Oberlander*, Jan Odijk,
Stephan Oepen, Kemal Oﬂazer, Alice Oh*, Jong-Hoon Oh, Manabu Okumura, Alessandro Oltra-
mari, Vicente Ordonez, Petya Osenova, Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm*, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha
Ulrike Pado, Martha Palmer, Patrick Pantel*, Antonio Pareja-Lora*, Cecile Paris, Patrick Paroubek,
Kristen Parton, Rebecca J. Passonneau, Siddharth Patwardhan, Michael J. Paul*, Adam Pauls*,
Adam Pease, Bolette Pedersen, Ted Pedersen, Thomas Pellegrini, Anselmo Peñas, Wim Peters,
Slav Petrov, Sasa Petrovic*, Verónica Pérez-Rosas, Maciej Piasecki, Olivier Pietquin, Daniele
Pighin*, Manfred Pinkal, Stelios Piperidis, Emily Pitler, Paul Piwek, Barbara Plank, Lonneke
xi

van der Plas*, Massimo Poesio, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Hoifung Poon, Fred Popowich, Matt


Prompt:
Fred Popowich, Matt
Post, Sameer Pradhan, John Prager, Rashmi Prasad, Daniel Preo¸tiuc-Pietro, Laurent Prévot, Gá-
bor Prószéky, Emily Prud’hommeaux, Adam Przepiórkowski, Stephen Pulman, Matthew Purver,
James Pustejovsky, Sampo Pyysalo*
Guojun Qi, Xian Qian, Xipeng Qiu, Ariadna Quattoni, Chris Quirk, Valeria Quochi
Stephan Raaijmakers, Altaf Rahman, Maya Ramanath, Carlos Ramisch, Delip Rao, Sujith Ravi,
Marta Recasens, Sravana Reddy, Roi Reichart*, Joseph Reisinger, Ehud Reiter, Norbert Rei-
thinger, David Reitter, Sebastian Riedel, Jason Riesa, Stefan Riezler, German Rigau, Ellen Riloff*,
Antonio Roque, Paolo Rosso, Michael Roth, Dominic Rout, Alla Rozovskaya, Frank Rudzicz,
Anna Rumshisky, Alexander M. Rush*, Delia Rusu
Markus Saers, Kenji Sagae, Benoît Sagot, Saurav Sahay, Patrick Saint-Dizier, Tetsuya Sakai,
Mehdi Samadi, Mark Sammons*, Murat Saraclar, Anoop Sarkar, Felix Sasaki, Giorgio Satta,


Prompt:
Giorgio Satta,
Roser Saurí, David Schlangen, Helmut Schmid, Nathan Schneider, Hinrich Schuetze, William
Schuler, Sabine Schulte im Walde, Roy Schwartz*, Holger Schwenk, Djamé Seddah, Frederique
Segond, Yohei Seki, Satoshi Sekine, Jean Senellart, Pavel Serdyukov, Hendra Setiawan, Serge
Sharoff, Libin Shen, Wade Shen, Xiaodong Shi, Shuming Shi, Masashi Shimbo, Luke Shrimp-
ton, Advaith Siddharthan, Khalil Sima’an, Michel Simard, Sameer Singh, Jeffrey Mark Siskind,
Gabriel Skantze, Kevin Small*, Noah A. Smith*, Nathaniel Smith, Pavel Smrz, Benjamin Sny-
der, Richard Socher, Thamar Solorio, Swapna Somasundaran, Yang Song, Lucia Specia, Valentin
Spitovsky, Caroline Sporleder*, Richard Sproat, Rachele Sprugnoli, Rohini Srihari, Vivek Sriku-
mar, Edward Stabler, Manfred Stede, Armando Stellato*, Amanda Stent, Keith Stevens, Mark
Stevenson, Veselin Stoyanov, Carlo Strapparava, Matt Stuttle, Sara Stymne, Keh-Yih Su, Jian Su,


Prompt:
Keh-Yih Su, Jian Su,
Amarnag Subramanya, Fabian Suchanek, David Suendermann, Le Sun, Ang Sun, Ke Sun*, Wei-
wei Sun, Xu Sun, Mihai Surdeanu, Hisami Suzuki, Jun Suzuki, Stan Szpakowicz*, Idan Szpektor,
Anders Søgaard
Whitney Tabor, Marko Tadi´c, Hiroya Takamura, David Talbot, Partha P. Talukdar, Kumiko Tanaka-
Ishii, Oscar Täckström*, Joel Tetreault, Jörg Tiedemann, Christoph Tillmann, Ivan Titov*, Takenobu
Tokunaga, Sara Tonelli, Isabel Trancoso, Reut Tsarfaty*, Hajime Tsukada, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka,
Dan Tuﬁs , , Gokhan Tur
Olga Uryupina, Jakob Uszkoreit*
Gerhard Van Huyssteen, Keith Vander Linden, Andrejs Vasil¸jevs, Paola Velardi, Marc Verhagen*,
Yannick Versley, Cristina Vertan, Renata Vieira, Laure Vieu, David Vilar, Aline Villavicencio*,
Marta Villegas, Sami Virpioja, Karthik Visweswariah, Andreas Vlachos, Svitlana Volkova*, Piek
Vossen
Michael Walsh, Stephen Wan, Xiaojun Wan, Jun Wang, Lu Wang, Rui Wang, Mengqiu Wang*,


Prompt:
Rui Wang, Mengqiu Wang*,
Bin Wang, Houfeng Wang, Haifeng Wang, Hsin-Min Wang, Wen Wang, Leo Wanner, Yotaro
Watanabe, Bonnie Webber, Furu Wei, Gerhard Weikum, David Weir*, Michael White, Rich Wi-
centowski, Janyce Wiebe, Jason D Williams*, Sandra Williams, Shuly Wintner, Kristian Wood-
send*, Dekai Wu, Stephen Wu, Xianchao Wu, Joern Wuebker
Fei Xia, Tong Xiao, Jun Xie, Wei Xu*, Ying Xu, Nianwen Xue, Xiaobing Xue
Bishan Yang, Muyun Yang, Yi Yang, Roman Yangarber, Tae Yano, Limin Yao, Alexander Yates,
Mark Yatskar*, Xing Yi, Anssi Yli-Jyrä, Bei Yu, Hong Yu, Nicholas Yuan, François Yvon
David Zajic, Rabih Zbib, Xiaodong Zeng, Richard Zens, Torsten Zesch, Luke Zettlemoyer, Deniz
Zeyrek, Ke Zhai, Congle Zhang, Dongdong Zhang, Hao Zhang, Jiajun Zhang, Joy Ying Zhang,
Lei Zhang, Qi Zhang, Yue Zhang*, Min Zhang, Yu Zhang, Jian Zhang, Min Zhang, Liu Zhanyi,
Jun Zhao, Kai Zhao, Tiejun Zhao, Yanyan Zhao, Guangyou Zhou, Ming Zhou*, Tom Chao Zhou,


Prompt:
Ming Zhou*, Tom Chao Zhou,
Qiang Zhou, Jun Zhu, Jingbo Zhu, Chengqing Zong, Ingrid Zukerman, Geoffrey Zweig, Pierre
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Zweigenbaum
Secondary Reviewers
Elias Aamot, Azad Abad, Waleed Ammar, Henry Anaya, Mihael Arcan
Timothy Baldwin, Marilena di Bari, Fernando Batista, Lisa Beinborn, David Belanger, Vivek
Beniwal, Georgeta Bordea, Djallel Bouneffouf, Hendrik Buschmeier
Hailong Cao, Lin Chen, Wenliang Chen, Bin Chen, Emmanuele Chersoni, Md Faisal Mahbub
Chowdhury, Elisabet Comelles Pujadas
Pradipto Das, Li Dong
Nico Erbs
Jeff Flanigan
Dimitrios Galanis, Wei Gao, Diman Ghazi, Roger Granada, Yufan Guo
Masato Hagiwara, Amir Hossein Razavi, Dirk Hovy, Yanzhou Huang
Savvas Karagiannidis, Catherine Kobus, Lingpeng Kong, Florian Kunneman
Patrick Lange, Zhenghua Li, Dingcheng Li, Chen Li, Wang Ling, Daniel Liu, Nikhil Londhe
Zongyang Ma, Ji Ma, Meladel Mistica, Johanna Monti, Masud Moshtaghi
Aida Nematzadeh, Susanne Neumann
Ioannis Pavlopoulos, Daniel Peterson


Prompt:
Daniel Peterson
Steffen Remus, Martin Riedl, Eugen Ruppert
Christer Samuelsson, Germán Sanchis-Trilles, Christophe Servan, Jingsong Su, Elior Sulem
Sam Thomson, Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno, Jeremy Trione
Yining Wang, Shumin Wu
Deyi Xiong
Feifei Zhai, Chunyue Zhang, Meng Zhang, Kai Zhao


Prompt:
Daniel Peterson
Steffen Remus, Martin Riedl, Eugen Ruppert
Christer Samuelsson, Germán Sanchis-Trilles, Christophe Servan, Jingsong Su, Elior Sulem
Sam Thomson, Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno, Jeremy Trione
Yining Wang, Shumin Wu
Deyi Xiong
Feifei Zhai, Chunyue Zhang, Meng Zhang, Kai Zhao
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Prompt:
Organizing Committee
General Chair
Yuji Matsumoto, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Program Committee Co-Chairs
Chengqing Zong, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
Local Co-Chairs
Le Sun, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yang Liu, Tsinghua University
Workshop Co-Chairs
Hang Li, Huawei
Sebastian Riedel, University College London
Tutorial Co-Chairs
Kevin Duh, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country
Publications Chairs
Wanxiang Che, Harbin Institute of Technology
Guodong Zhou, Suzhou University
Demonstration Co-Chairs
Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University
Katja Markert, University of Leeds
Sponsorship Chair
Yiqun Liu, Tsinghua University
Publicity Co-Chairs
Xianpei Han, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Kang Liu, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Student Research Workshop Faculty Advisors


Prompt:
Advisors
Stephan Oepen, University of Oslo
Chin-Yew Lin, Microsoft Research Asia
Emily Bender, University of Washington
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Student Co-Chairs (Student Research Workshop)
Kuan-Yu Chen, National Taiwan University
Angelina Ivanova, University of Oslo
Ellie Pavlick, University of Pennsylvania
Mentoring Chair
Francis Bond, Nanyang Technological University
Student Volunteer Co-Chairs
Erhong Yang, Beijing Language and Culture University
Dong Yu, Beijing Language and Culture University
Webmasters
Zhiyuan Liu, Tsinghua University
Qi Zhang, Fudan University
Entertainment Chair
Binyang Li, University of International Relations
Space Management Co-Chairs
Jiajun Zhang, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wenbin Jiang, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Qiuye Zhao, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Graphic Design
Yi Han, Tsinghua University
Ying Lin, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
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Program Committee


Prompt:
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Program Committee
Program Committee Co-Chairs
Chengqing Zong, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
Area Chairs
Srinivas Bangalore, Interactions
Regina Barzilay, MIT
Steven Bethard, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Chris Biemann, TU Darmstadt
Razvan Bunescu, Ohio University
Pascal Denis, INRIA Lille
Mark Dras, Macquarie University
James Fan
Raquel Fernandez, University of Amsterdam
Jianfeng Gao, Microsoft Research
Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University
Fei Huang, Facebook
Mausam, IIT Dehli
Jing Jiang, Singapore Management University
John Kelleher, Dublin Institute of Technology
Jin-Dong Kim, Research Organization of Information and Systems
Greg Kondrak, University of Alberta
Zornitsa Kozareva, Yahoo! Labs
Lun-Wei Ku, Academia Sinica
Tom Kwiatkowski, Google Research
Mirella Lapata, University of Edinburgh
Shou-De Lin, National Taiwan University
Qin Lu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University


Prompt:
niversity
Yusuke Miyao, National Institute of Informatics
Daichi Mochihashi, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
Jian-Yun Nie, Université de Montréal
Alice Oh, KAIST
Rashmi Prasad, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Marta Recasens, Google Research
David Schlangen, University of Bielefeld
Anders Søgaard, University of Copenhagen
Suzanne Stevenson, University of Toronto
Joel Tetreault, Yahoo! Labs
Xiaojun Wan, Peking University
Taro Watanabe, Google
Eric Xing, Carnegie Mellon University
Min Zhang, Soochow University
Primary Reviewers
Reviewers who are acknowledged by the program committee for providing one or more outstand-
ing reviews are marked with “*”.
Ahmed Abbasi, Omri Abend*, Stergos Afantenos, Eneko Agirre*, Željko Agi ´ c*, Cem Akkaya, Jan
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Alexandersson, Enrique Alfonseca*, Afra Alishahi, Yiannis Aloimonos, David Alvarez-Melis*,
Richard Andersson, Ion Androutsopoulos*, Gabor Angeli*, Yuki Arase*, Cedric Archambeau,


Prompt:
Cedric Archambeau,
Yasuo Ariki, Ron Artstein*, Yoav Artzi*, Nicholas Asher, Giuseppe Attardi, Michael Auli, AiTi
Aw, Necip Fazil Ayan
Olga Babko-Malaya, JinYeong Bak, Niranjan Balasubramanian, Timothy Baldwin*, Miguel Balles-
teros, David Bamman, Carmen Banea, Srinivas Bangalore, Mohit Bansal, Ken Barker, Marco
Baroni, Loïc Barrault, Regina Barzilay, Roberto Basili, Timo Baumann, Frederic Bechet, Barend
Beekhuizen*, Núria Bel, Anja Belz, Jose Miguel Benedi, Jonathan Berant, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick,
Steven Bethard, Suma Bhat*, Archna Bhatia*, Klinton Bicknell, Chris Biemann, Anders Björkelund*,
Alan W Black, Nate Blaylock, John Blitzer, Bernd Bohnet, Dan Bohus*, Ondrej Bojar, Gemma
Boleda*, Kalina Bontcheva, Antoine Bordes, Mihaela Bornea, Johan Bos, Alexandre Bouchard,
Johan Boye, Kristy Boyer, S.R.K. Branavan, António Branco, Chris Brew, Ted Briscoe, Chris
Brockett*, Julian Brooke, Eric Brown, Elia Bruni, Paul Buitelaar, Razvan Bunescu, Harry Bunt,
Jill Burstein, Miriam Butt


Prompt:
Jill Burstein, Miriam Butt
Elena Cabrio, Aoife Cahill*, Nicoletta Calzolari, Erik Cambria, Marie Candito, Yunbo Cao, Xavier
Carreras*, Tommaso Caselli, Taylor Cassidy, Vittorio Castelli, Asli Celikyilmaz, Daniel Cer,
Christophe Cerisara, Nathanael Chambers*, Yee Seng Chan, Yi Chang, Wanxiang Che, Box-
ing Chen, Chen Chen, Wenliang Chen, Colin Cherry*, David Chiang, Christian Chiarcos, Laura
Chiticariu*, Eunsol Choi, Jinho D. Choi, Key-Sun Choi, Yejin Choi, Monojit Choudhury, Mun-
mun De Choudhury, Grzegorz Chrupała, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Cindy Chung, Alexander Clark,
Stephen Clark, Ann Clifton, Moreno Coco*, Shay B. Cohen, Trevor Cohn, Nigel Collier, Gao
Cong, Miriam Connor, John Conroy, Paul Cook*, Bonaventura Coppola, Anna Corazza, Mark
Core, Marta R. Costa-jussà, Danilo Croce, Paul Crook, Tim Van De Cruys, Xiaodong Cui
Robert Daland*, Bharath Dandala, Kareem Darwish, Dipanjan Das, Thierry Declerck, Estelle


Prompt:
Thierry Declerck, Estelle
Delpech, Vera Demberg, John DeNero, Pascal Denis, Leon Derczynski, David DeVault*, Jacob
Devlin, Mona Diab, Marco Dinarelli, Georgiana Dinu, Stefanie Dipper, Dmitriy Dligach, Simon
Dobnik*, Bill Dolan, Mathew Magimai Doss, Doug Downey, Mark Dras, Mark Dredze*, Markus
Dreyer, Gregory Druck*, Lan Du, Xiangyu Duan, Ewan Dunbar*, Benjamin Van Durme*, Greg
Durrett*, Chris Dyer
Matthias Eck, Jens Edlund, Koji Eguchi, Yo Ehara*, Patrick Ehlen, Vladimir Eidelman, Jacob
Eisenstein, Michael Elhadad*, Desmond Elliott, Klaus-Peter Engelbrecht, Erkut Erdem*, Katrin
Erk*, Maxine Eskenazi
Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Anthony Fader*, James Fan, Benoit Favre*, Anna Feldman, Naomi Feld-
man, Raquel Fernandez, Katja Filippova, Nicholas FitzGerald, Darja Fišer, Margaret Fleck, Radu
Florian, Antske Fokkens*, David Forsyth, Karën Fort, George Foster, Jennifer Foster, James
Foulds*, Stella Frank, Alexander Fraser, Dayne Freitag*, Guohong Fu


Prompt:
Dayne Freitag*, Guohong Fu
Michel Galley, Michael Gamon*, Kuzman Ganchev, Juri Ganitkevitch, Jianfeng Gao, Qin Gao,
Wei Gao, Yue Gao, Claire Gardent, Albert Gatt*, Maria Gavrilidou, Kallirroi Georgila*, Daniel
Gildea, Alastair Gill, Jennifer Gillenwater*, Kevin Gimpel*, Filip Ginter, Roxana Girju, Adrià
De Gispert, Alﬁo Gliozzo, Amir Globerson, Yoav Goldberg, Dan Goldwasser, Matthew R. Gorm-
ley, Cyril Goutte, Amit Goyal, Joao Graca, Brigitte Grau, Agustin Gravano, Edouard Grave*,
Spence Green, Edward Grefenstette, Gregory Grefenstette, Ralph Grishman, Marco Guerini, Curry
Guinn*, Weiwei Guo, Yuhong Guo, Rahul Gupta*, Sonal Gupta, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez*
Ben Hachey, Barry Haddow, Gholamreza Haffari, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, John
Hale, David Hall, Keith Hall, Bo Han, Xianpei Han, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson*, Hany Hassan,
Kenneth Heaﬁeld*, Peter Heeman, Ulrich Heid, James Henderson, John Henderson, Karl Moritz


Prompt:
John Henderson, Karl Moritz
Hermann, Tsutomu Hirao, Keikichi Hirose, Julia Hirschberg, Graeme Hirst, Anna Hjalmarsson,
Hieu Hoang, Julia Hockenmaier, Johannes Hoffart, Veronique Hoste, Dirk Hovy*, Yuening Hu,
Fei Huang (Facebook), Fei Huang (Temple University), Liang Huang, Ruihong Huang, Xuanjing
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Huang, Zhongqiang Huang, Mans Hulden, Gerhard Van Huyssteen, Rebecca Hwa*, Young-Sook
Hwang
Nancy Ide, Ryu Iida, Hal Daumé III*, Shajith Ikbal, Iustina Ilisei, Diana Inkpen, Kentaro Inui,
Hitoshi Isahara, Abe Ittycheriah, Mohit Iyyer
Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi, Yacine Jernite, Rahul Jha, Heng Ji, Yangfeng Ji, Jing Jiang, Richard Jo-
hansson*, Mark Johnson, Michael Johnston, Kristiina Jokinen, Arne Jonsson, Shaﬁq Joty
Kyo Kageura, Min-Yen Kan*, Pallika Kanani, Daisuke Kawahara, Tatsuya Kawahara, Hideto
Kazawa, Simon Keizer, John Kelleher, Frank Keller*, Emre Kiciman, Bernd Kiefer, Dongwoo
Kim, Jin-Dong Kim, Seungyeon Kim, Su Nam Kim, Suin Kim, Tracy Holloway King, Brian


Prompt:
Tracy Holloway King, Brian
Kingsbury, Kevin Knight, Alistair Knott, Philipp Koehn, Oleksandr Kolomiyets, Mamoru Ko-
machi, Kazunori Komatani, Grzegorz Kondrak, Stefan Kopp, Parisa Kordjamshidi, Valia Ko-
rdoni, Anna Korhonen, Milen Kouylekov*, Zornitsa Kozareva, Emiel Krahmer, Jayant Krish-
namurthy, Lun-Wei Ku*, Marco Kuhlmann, Roland Kuhn*, Tsung-Ting Kuo, Nate Kushman*,
Polina Kuznetsova, Tom Kwiatkowski, Sandra Kübler
Wai Lam, Patrik Lambert, Guy Lapalme, Mirella Lapata, Shalom Lappin, Dominique Laurent,
Alan Lee, Kenton Lee, Sungjin Lee, Yoong Keok Lee, Young-Suk Lee, Els Lefever, Fabrice
Lefevre, Tao Lei, Alessandro Lenci, James Lester, Rivka Levitan, Gina-Anne Levow, Omer Levy*,
Mike Lewis, Cheng-Te Li, Haibo Li, Hang Li, Jiwei Li, Lishuang Li, Mu Li, Qi Li*, Shoushan Li,
Tao Li, Wenjie Li, Zhenghua Li, Chin-Yew Lin*, Shou-de Lin, Keith Vander Linden, Bing Liu,
Fei Liu, Jing Liu, Kang Liu, Lemao Liu, Qun Liu, Ting Liu, Xiaohua Liu, Yang Liu (University


Prompt:
Yang Liu (University
Of Texas At Dallas), Yang Liu (Tsinghua University), Yiqun Liu, Zhanyi Liu, Zhiyuan Liu, Annie
Louis, Wei Lu, Marco Lui, Xiaoqiang Luo, Franco M. Luque, Yajuan Lv
Klaus Macherey, Wolfgang Macherey, Nitin Madnani*, Daniel Marcu*, Marco Marelli, Anna Mar-
golis, Joseph Mariani, Marie-Catherine De Marneffe, Erwin Marsi, Toni Marti, James H. Martin,
Scott Martin*, André F. T. Martins, Vivien Mast*, Yuji Matsumoto, Takuya Matsuzaki, Mausam,
Arne Mauser, Jonathan May*, David McClosky, Kathy McCoy*, Ryan McDonald, Tara McIntosh,
Kathy McKeown, Susan McRoy, Alexander Mehler, Edgar Meij, Yelena Mejova, Gerard De Melo,
Arul Menezes, Helen Meng, Florian Metze, Christian M. Meyer*, Adam Meyers, Haitao Mi, Rada
Mihalcea, Timothy Miller*, Tristan Miller*, Bonan Min, Wolfgang Minker, Margaret Mitchell,
Yusuke Miyao, Daichi Mochihashi, Marie-Francine Moens, Saif Mohammad, Karo Moilanen,
Christian Monson, Manuel Montes, Christof Monz, Robert Moore, Roser Morante, Andrea Moro,