Senior Program Committee

Senior Area Chairs (SACs) and Area Chairs (ACs)

Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics

SACs: Jing Jiang (jingjiang@smu.edu.sg), Alan Ritter (alan.ritter@cc.gatech.edu)

ACs: Jacob Eisenstein, Kristen Johnson, David Jurgens, Preslav Nakov, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Andrew Schwartz, Wei Xu, Justine Zhang

Dialogue and Interactive Systems

SACs: Annemarie Friedrich (annemarie.friedrich@gmail.com), Kevin Small (kevinsmall@gmail.com), Ruihua Song (rsong@ruc.edu.cn)

ACs: Emily Dinan, Zhicheng Dou, Kallirroi Georgila, Alborz Geramifard, Casey Kennington, Yanyan Lan, Pearl Pu, Oleg Rokhlenko, Gabriel Skantze, Han Ting, Stefan Ultes, Thang Vu, Youzheng Wu, Wei Wu, Min Yang, Sina Zarrieß, Weinan Zhang

Discourse and Pragmatics

SAC: Guodong Zhou (gdzhou@suda.edu.cn)

ACs: Fang Kong, Xiaojie Wang, Rui Xia, Ruifeng Xu

Ethics in NLP

SAC: Natalie Schluter (natschluter@itu.dk)

ACs: Sasha Luccioni, Marta Ruiz Costa-Jussa, Simon Suster

Efficient Methods for NLP

SAC: Jesse Dodge (dodgejesse@gmail.com) and Gabriel Stanovsky (gabriel.stanovsky@mail.huji.ac.il)

ACs: Aleksandr Drozd, Adhi Kuncoro, Emma Strubell, Andreas Rücklé, Benoît Sagot, Jonathan Frankle

Generation

SACs: Nan Duan (nanduan@microsoft.com), Mohit Iyyer (miyyer@cs.umass.edu), Advaith Siddharthan (advaith.siddharthan@open.ac.uk)

ACs: Anya Belz, Asli Celikyilmaz, Nina Dethlefs, Angela Fan, Albert Gatt, Yeyun Gong, Meng Jiang, Chenghua Lin, Nanyun Peng, Hannah Rashkin, Hiroya Takamura, Rui Yan, Jiajun Zhang

Information Extraction

SACs: Leon Derczynski (ld@itu.dk), Fei Liu (feiliu@cs.ucf.edu), Kang Liu (kliu@nlpr.ia.ac.cn)

ACs: Christos Christodoulopoulos, Manuel Ciosici, Gerard de Melo, Antoine Doucet, Doug Downey, Mahmoud El-Haj, Yansong Feng, Xianpei Han, Luheng He, Zhiyuan Liu, Stephen Mayhew, Tim Miller, Thien Huu Nguyen, Qiang Ning, Marius Pasca, Hoifung Poon, Roi Reichart, Xiang Ren, Yangqiu Song, Jie Yang, Mo Yu, Dian Yu

Information Retrieval and Text Mining

SACs: Mark Sanderson (mark.sanderson@rmit.edu.au), Andrew Yates (ayates@mpi-inf.mpg.de)

ACs: Simone Filice, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Evangelos Kanoulas, Sarvnaz Karimi, Heri Ramampiaro, Suzan Verberne, Thuy Vu, Jenny Zhang

Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP

SACs: Zack Lipton (zlipton@cmu.edu), Francesca Toni (ft@imperial.ac.uk)

ACs: Leila Arras, Jasmijn Bastings, Grzegorz Chrupala, Kevin Clark, Yonatan Belinkov, Sebastian Gehrmann, Diewke Hupkes, Piyawat Lertvittayakumjorn, Anna Rogers, Naomi Saphra, Sameer Singh, Byron Wallace , Oana Cocarascu

Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics

SAC: Ryan Cotterell (rcotterell@inf.ethz.ch)

ACs: Afra Alishahi, Kyle Mahowald, Aida Nematzadeh, Adina Williams

Machine Learning for NLP

SACs: Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk), Angeliki Lazaridou (angeliki@google.com), Wei Lu (luwei@sutd.edu.sg), Karthik Narasimhan (karthikn@cs.princeton.edu)

ACs: Yuki Arase, Daniel Beck, Iz Beltagy, Kai-Wei Chang, Georgiana Dinu, Lea Frermann, Yoav Goldberg, Yoon Kim, Carolin Lawrence, Tao Lei, Lei Li, André Martins, Vlad Niculae, Siva Reddy, Vivek Srikumar, Karl Stratos, Jun Suzuki, Swabha Swayamdipta, Yulia Tsvetkov, Sam Wiseman

Machine Translation and Multilinguality

SACs: Alexandra Birch (a.birch@ed.ac.uk), Yang Feng (fengyang@ict.ac.cn), Ves Stoyanov (ves@fb.com)

ACs: Boxing Chen, Colin Cherry, Trevor Cohn, Marta Costa-jussà, Marcello Federico, Orhan Firat, Dan Garrette, Zhongjun He, Tong Xiao, Junhui Li, Yang Liu, Qun Liu, Rico Sennrich, Taro Watanabe, Deyi Xiong, Imed Zitouni

NLP Applications

SACs: Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@mail.nih.gov), Shafiq Rayhan Joty (srjoty@ntu.edu.sg), Maria Liakata (mliakata@turing.ac.uk)

ACs: Nikolaos Aletras, Emilia Apostolova, Steven Bedrick, Aoife Cahill, Nancy Chen, Fenia Christopoulou, Nadir Durrani, Wei Gao, Travis Goodwin, Yulan He, Lifu Huang, David Mimno, Makoto Miwa, Tristan Naumann, Dong Nguyen, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Nazneen Rajani, Kirk Roberts, Hassan Sajjad, Yi Tay, Thy Thy Tran, Karin Verspoor, Chrysoula Zerva, Aston Zhang, Arkaitz Zubiaga

Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation

SAC: Xipeng Qiu (xpqiu@fudan.edu.cn)

ACs: Baobao Chao, Ryan Cotterell, Hinrich Schütze, Hai Zhao

Question Answering

SACs: Eunsol Choi (eunsol@cs.utexas.edu), Matt Gardner (mattg@allenai.org)

ACs: Jonathan Berant, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Danqi Chen, Yiming Cui, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Robin Jia, Tushar Khot, Tom Kwiatkowski, Kenton Lee, Jimmy Lin, Minjoon Seo, Pontus Stenetorp, Alon Talmor

Resources and Evaluation

SAC: Yvette Graham (graham.yvette@gmail.com)

ACs: Barbara Plank, Ines Rehbein, Maja Popovic, Gerasimos Lampouras, Markus Freitag, Simon Mille, Ajay Nagesh, Gareth Jones

Semantics: Lexical, Sentence level, Textual Inference and Other areas

SACs: Tim Baldwin (tb@ldwin.net), Sonal Gupta (sonalgupta@fb.com), James Henderson (james.henderson@idiap.ch)

ACs: Marianna Apidianaki, Wai Lam, Jey Han Lau, Mike Lewis, Koji Mineshima, Nafise Sadat Moosavi, Naoaki Okazaki, Tommaso Pasini, Panupong Pasupat, Michael Roth, Swabha Swayamdipta, Aline Villavicencio, Ivan Vulic, Diyi Yang, Yi Zhang

Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining

SACs: Veronique Hoste(veronique.hoste@ugent.be), Yue Zhang (yue.zhang@wias.org.cn)

ACs: Lidong Bing, Cristina Bosco, Eric Cambria, Orphée De Clercq, Ivan Habernal, Roman Klinger, Anh Tuan Luu, Soujanya Poria, Zhiyang Teng, Zhongqing Wang, Zhongyu Wei, Meishan Zhang

Speech, Vision, Robotics, Multimodal Grounding

SACs: Hung-yi Lee (hungyilee@ntu.edu.tw), Pranava Madhyastha (pranava@imperial.ac.uk)

ACs: Yonatan Bisk, Christian Fügen, David Harwath, Lisa Ann Hendricks, Chiori Hori, Douwe Kiela, Florian Metze, Tara Sainath, Radu Soricut, William Wang

Summarization

SACs: Xiaojun Wan (wanxiaojun@pku.edu.cn), Lu Wang (wangluxy@umich.edu)

ACs: Giuseppe Carenini, Michael Elhadad, Pengfei Liu, Shashi Narayan, Manabu Okumura, Jessica Ouyang, Maxime Peyrard, Caiming Xiong, Rui Zhang

Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing

SAC: Wanxiang Che (wanxiang@gmail.com)

ACs: Liang Huang, Zhenghua Li, Weiwei Sun, Kewei Tu

Multidisciplinary and AC COI

SACs: Diana Inkpen (Diana.Inkpen@uottawa.ca), Lluís Màrquez (lluismv@amazon.com)

ACs: Cecilia Alm, Paul Cook, Zornitsa Kozareva, German Rigau