For more conference chairs, see Additional conference chairs.
ACL Conference
Year
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Location
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General Chair
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Program Chair
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Local Arrangements Chair
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2018
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Melbourne, Australia
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Claire Cardie
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Iryna Gurevych, Yusuke Miyao
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Tim Baldwin, Karin Verspoor, Trevor Cohn
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2017
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Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Chris Callison-Burch
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Regina Barzilay, Min-Yen Kan
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Priscilla Rasmussen
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2016
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Berlin, Germany
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Antal van den Bosch
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Katrin Erk, Noah Smith
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Valia Kordoni, Markus Egg
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2015 w/IJCNLP
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Beijing, China
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Yuji Matsumoto
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Chengqing Zong, Michael Strube
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Le Sun (CAS), Yang Liu (Tsinghua)
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2014
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Baltimore, MD, USA
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Daniel Marcu
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Kristina Toutanova, Hua Wu
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David Yarowsky
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2013
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Sofia, Bulgaria
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Hinrich Schuetze
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Pascale Fung, Massimo Poesio
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Svetla Koeva
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2012 w/IJCNLP
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Jeju, Republic of Korea
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Haizhou Li
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Chin-Yew Lin, Miles Osborne
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Gary Geunbae Lee, Jong C. Park
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2011
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Portland, OR, USA
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Dekang Lin
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Rada Mihalcea, Yuji Matsumoto
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Brian Roark
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2010
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Uppsala, Sweden
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Jan Hajic
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Sandra Carberry, Stephen Clark
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Joakim Nivre
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2009 w/ IJCNLP
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Suntec, Singapore
|
Keh-Yih Su
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Jian Su, Janyce Wiebe
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Haizhou Li
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2008 w/ NAACL HLT
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Columbus, OH, USA
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Kathleen McKeown
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Johanna Moore, Simone Teufel, Sadaoki Furui (speech), James Allan (IR)
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Chris Brew
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2007
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Prague, Czech Republic
|
John Carroll
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Annie Zaenen, Antal van den Bosch
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Eva Hajicova
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2006 w/ COLING
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Sydney, Australia
|
Nicoletta Calzolari
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Claire Cardie, Pierre Isabelle
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Robert Dale, Cecile Paris
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2005 w/ NAACL
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Ann Arbor, MI, USA
|
Kevin Knight
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Hwee Tou Ng, Kemal Oflazer
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Dragomir Radev
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2004
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Barcelona, Spain
|
Donia Scott
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Walter Daelemans, Marilyn Walker
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Toni Badia
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2003
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Sapporo, Japan
|
Jun'ichi Tsujii
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Erhard Hinrichs, Dan Roth
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Kenji Araki
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2002 w/ NAACL
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Philadelphia, PA, USA
|
Pierre Isabelle
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Eugene Charniak, Dekang Lin
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Martha Palmer
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2001
|
Toulouse, France
|
Bonnie Webber
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Norbert Reithinger, Giorgio Satta
|
Patrick Saint-Dizier
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2000
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Hong Kong, China
|
Hitoshi Iida
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K. Vijay-Shanker, Chang-Ning Huang
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Dekai Wu
|
1999
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College Park, MD, USA
|
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Robert Dale, Ken Church
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Bonnie Dorr
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1998 w/COLING
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Montreal, QC, Canada
|
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Christian Boitet, Pete Whitelock
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Pierre Isabelle
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1997
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Madrid, Spain
|
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Philip Cohen, Wolfgang Wahlster
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Maria Felisa Verdejo
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1996
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Santa Cruz, CA, USA
|
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Aravind Joshi, Martha Palmer
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Douglas Appelt, Geoffrey Pullum
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1995
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Cambridge, MA, USA
|
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Hans Uszkoreit
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Robert Berwick
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1994
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Las Cruces, NM, USA
|
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James Pustejovsky
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Janyce Wiebe
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1993
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Columbus, OH, USA
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Lenhart Schubert
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Terry Patten, Robert Kasper
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1992
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Newark, DE, USA
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Henry Thompson
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Sandra Carberry, Dan Chester, Kathleen McCoy
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1991
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Berkeley, CA, USA
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Douglas Appelt
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Peter Norvig
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1990
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Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Robert Berwick
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Rich Thomason
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1989
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Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Julia Hirschberg
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Richard Rosenberg
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1988
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Buffalo, NY
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Jerry Hobbs
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William Rappaport
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1987
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Candy Sidner
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Douglas Appelt
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1986
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Alan Biermann
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Kathleen McKeown, Cecile Paris
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1985
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Chicago, IL, USA
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William Mann
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Martha Evens, Victor Yngve
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1984
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1983
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Mitch Marcus
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Jon Allen
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1982
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Madeleine Bates
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C. Raymond Perrault
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1981
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C. Raymond Perrault
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Jerry Kaplan
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1980
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Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Norman Sondheimer ?
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Gary Hendrix
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Kathleen McKeown
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1979
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San Diego, CA, USA
|
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Norman Sondheimer
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Jim Levin
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NAACL Conference
Year
|
Location
|
General Conference Chair
|
Program Chair
|
Local Arrangements Chair
|
2018
|
New Orleans, LA
|
Marilyn Walker
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Heng Ji, Amanda Stent
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Priscilla Rasmussen
|
2016
|
San Diego, CA
|
Kevin Knight
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Ani Nenkova, Owen Rambow
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Priscilla Rasmussen
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2015
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Denver, CO
|
Rada Mihalcea
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Joyce Chai, Anoop Sarkar
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Priscilla Rasmussen
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2013
|
Atlanta, GA
|
Lucy Vanderwende
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Katrin Kirchhoff, Hal Daume
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Priscilla Rasmussen
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2012
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Montreal, QC
|
Jennifer Chu-Carroll
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Srinivas Bangalore, Eric Fosler-Lussier, Ellen Riloff
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Priscilla Rasmussen
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2011 w/ACL
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2010
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Los Angeles, CA
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Ronald Kaplan
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Jill Burstein, Mary Harper, Gerald Penn
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David Chiang, Eduard Hovy, Jonathan May, Jason Riesa
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2009
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Boulder, CO
|
Mari Ostendorf
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Michael Collins, Lucy Vanderwende, Doug Oard, Shri Narayanan
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Martha Palmer and James Martin
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2008 w/ ACL
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2007 w/ HLT
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Rochester, NY
|
Candace Sidner
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Tanja Schultz, Matthew Stone, ChengXiang Zhai
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James Allen, Daniel Gildea, Lenhart Schubert
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2006 w/ HLT
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New York, NY
|
Robert C. Moore
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Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Jeff Bilmes, Mark Sanderson
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Satoshi Sekine
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2005 w/ ACL
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2004 w/ HLT
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Boston, MA
|
Julia Hirschberg
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Susan Dumais, Daniel Marcu, Salim Roukos
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Christine Doran
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2003 w/ HLT
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Edmonton, AB
|
Eduard Hovy
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Marti Hearst, Mari Ostendorf
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Dekang Lin
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2002 w/ ACL
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2001
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Pittsburgh, PA
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Lori Levin
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Kevin Knight
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Alon Lavie
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2000 w/ ANLP
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Seattle, WA
|
Marie Meteer
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Janyce Wiebe, Sergei Nirenburg
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Rick Wojcik
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ANLP Conference
Year
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Conference Chair
|
Program Chair
|
Local Arrangements Chair
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2000 w/ NAACL
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1997
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Ralph Grishman
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John White
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1994
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1992
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1988
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1983
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EACL Conference
Year
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Location
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Conference Chair
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Program Chair
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Local Arrangements Chair
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2017
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Valencia, Spain
|
Mirella Lapata
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Phil Blunsom, Alexander Koller
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Paolo Rosso, Francisco Casacuberta, Jon Ander Gómez
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2014
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Gothenburg, Sweden
|
Shuly Wintner
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Sharon Goldwater, Stefan Riezler
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Lars Borin, Aarne Ranta
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2012
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Avignon, France
|
Walter Daelemans
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Mirella Lapata,Lluís Màrquez
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Marc El-Beze
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2009
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Athens, Greece
|
Alex Lascarides
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Mirella Lapata, Lluis Marquez
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2006
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Trento, Italy
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Diana McCarthy, Shuly Wintner
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Bernardo Magnini, Alberto Lavelli
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2003
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Budapest
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Claire Gardent
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Ann Copestake, Jan Hajic
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Ferenc Kiefer
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1999
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Henry Thompson, Alex Lascarides
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Koenraad de Smedt
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1997 w/ ACL
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1993
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Steven Krauwer, Michael Moortgat, Louis des Tombe
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Renee Pohlmann
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1991
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Jurgen Kunze, Dorothee Reimann
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1989
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Harold Somers, Mary McGee Wood
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1987
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Bente Maegaard
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Rolf Christensen
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1985
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Maghi King
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Michael Rosner
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1983
|
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Antonio Zampolli
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COLING Conference
Year
|
Conference Chair
|
Program Chair
|
Local Arrangements Chair
|
2016
|
Nicoletta Calzolari
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Yuji Matsumoto, Rashmi Prasad
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Eiichiro Sumita, Takenobu Tokunaga, Sadao Kurohashi
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2014
|
Andy Way, Josef van Genabith
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Junichi Tsujii, Jan Hajic
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Cara Greene, John Judge
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2012
|
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Martin Kay, Christian Boitet
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Pushpak Bhattacharrya, Rajeev Sangal
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2010
|
Aravind K .Joshi
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Chu-Ren Huang, Dan Jurafsky
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Chengqing Zong, Le Sun
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2008
|
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Donia Scott, Hans Uszkoreit
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Harold Somers
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2006 w/ ACL
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Nicoletta Calzolari
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Claire Cardie, Pierre Isabelle
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Robert Dale, Cecile Paris
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2004
|
Martin Kay
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Sergei Nirenburg
|
Margaret King
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2002
|
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Winfried Lenders
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Chu-Ren Huang, Sharon Wang
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2000
|
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Martin Kay
|
Hans Uszkoreit
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1998 w/ ACL
|
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Christian Boitet, Pete Whitelock
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Pierre Isabelle
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1996
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Junichi Tsujii
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B. Maegaard
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1990
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1988
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1984
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IJCNLP Conference
Year
|
Conference Chair
|
Program Chair
|
Local Arrangements Chair
|
2015 w/ ACL
|
Yuji Matsumoto
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Chengqing Zong, Michael Strube
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Le Sun (CAS), Yang Liu (Tsinghua)
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2013
|
Hsin-Hsi Chen
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Ruslan Mitkov, Jong Park
|
Hitoshi Isahara
|
2011
|
Kam-Fai Wong
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Haifeng Wang, David Yarowsky
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Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Hitoshi Isahara
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2009 w/ ACL
|
Keh-Yih Su
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Jian Su, Janyce Wiebe
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Haizhou Li
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2008
|
Jong-Hyeok Lee
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Yuji Matsumoto, Ann Copestake
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Rajeev Sangal
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2005
|
Key-Sun Choi
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Robert Dale, Kam-fai Wong
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Jong-Hyeok Lee
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2004
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Guangnan Ni, Benjamin Tsou
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Keh-Yih Su, Jun-ichi Tsujii
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Youqi Cao
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HLT Conference
Note: starting in 2007, "HLT" became the name of the NAACL conference (and, hopefully, of the ACL conferences when in NA). There is currently no body that represents a conference called "HLT" other than the NAACL Board.
Year
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Conference Chair
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Program Chair
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Local Arrangements Chair
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2006 w/ NAACL
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2005 w/ EMNLP
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2004 w/ NAACL
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2003 w/ NAACL
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2002
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Mitch Marcus, David Yarowsky
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2001
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James Allan, Mitch Marcus
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EMNLP Conference
Year
|
General Chair
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Program Chair
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Local Arrangements Chair
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2017
|
Martha Palmer
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Sebastian Riedel, Rebecca Hwa
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Anders Søgaard, Dirk Hovy
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2016
|
Jian Su
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Kevin Duh, Xavier Carreras
|
Priscilla Rasmussen
|
2015
|
Lluís Màrquez
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Chris Callison-Burch, Jian Su
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André Martins, João Graça
|
2014
|
Alessandro Moschitti
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Bo Pang, Walter Daelemans
|
Kareem Darwish
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2013
|
David Yarowsky
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Tim Baldwin, Anna Korhonen
|
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2012
|
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Jun'ichi Tsujii, James Henderson, Marius Pasca
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Gary Geunbae Lee, Jong C. Park
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2011
|
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Paola Merlo, Regina Barzilay, Mark Johnson
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Bonnie Webber
|
2010
|
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Hang Li, Lluís Màrquez
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Regina Barzilay
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2009
|
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Philipp Koehn, Rada Mihalcea
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Haizhou Li
|
2008
|
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Mirella Lapata, Hwee Tou Ng
|
Priscilla Rasmussen
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2007 w/ CoNLL
|
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Jason Eisner
|
Jan Hajic
|
2006
|
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Dan Jurafsky, Eric Gaussier
|
James Curran
|
2005
|
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Chris Brew, Lee-Feng Chien, Katrin Kirchhoff
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Priscilla Rasmussen
|
2004
|
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Dekang Lin, Dekai Wu
|
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2003
|
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Michael Collins, Mark Steedman
|
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2002
|
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Jan Hajic, Yuji Matsumoto
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2001
|
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Lillian Lee, Donna Harman
|
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2000
|
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Hinrich Schuetze, Keh-Yih Su
|
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1999
|
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Pascale Fung, Joe Zhou
|
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1998 held as EMNLP
|
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Nancy Ide, Atro Voutilainen
|
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1998 held as VLC
|
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Eugene Charniak
|
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1997 held as EMNLP
|
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Claire Cardie, Ralph Weischedel
|
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1997 held as VLC
|
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Huang Changning, Ken Church, Joe Zhou
|
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1996 held as EMNLP
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Eric Brill, Kenneth Church
|
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1996 held as VLC
|
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Eva Ejerhed, Ido Dagan
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1995 held as VLC
|
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Kenneth Church, David Yarowsky
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Robert Berwick
|
1994 held as VLC
|
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Pierre Isabelle, Kenneth Church
|
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1993 held as VLC
|
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Kenneth Church
|
Terry Patten, Robert Kasper
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