Areas, chairs, and area submissions

ACL 2014

Area	Chair(s)	Submissions (long, short)
General Chair	Daniel Marcu (ISI/USC)
Program Chairs	Kristina Toutanova (Microsoft Research), Hua Wu (Baidu)
Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics	Klinton Bicknell (Northwestern University)	9, 14
Dialogue and Interactive Systems	Asli Celikyilmaz (Microsoft Research)	10, 8
Discourse, Coreference and Pragmatics	Micha Elsner (Ohio State University), Michael Strube (HITS gGmbH)	22, 20
Document Categorization, Sentiment Analysis and Topic Models	Jacob Eisenstein (Georgia Institute of Technology), Jun Zhao (Chinese Academy of Sciences)	53, 48
Generation	Barbara Di Eugenio (University of Illinois at Chicago)	13, 7
Information Extraction and Text Mining	Marius Pasca (Google Research), Mihai Surdeanu (University of Arizona)	54, 49
Information Retrieval	Ting Liu (Harbin Institute of Technology)	8, 9
Language Resources and Evaluation	Nicoletta Calzolari (Institute of Computational Linguistics of the National Research Council), Nianwen Xue (Brandeis University)	31, 28
Lexical Semantics and Ontology	Eneko Agirre (University of the Basque Country)	26, 23
Machine Learning for Language Processing	Kevin Duh (Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Jason Eisner (Johns Hopkins University)	39, 15
Machine Translation	Colin Cherry (National Research Council, Canada), Niyu Ge (IBM Research), Liang Huang (City University of New York), Yanjun Ma (Baidu)	76, 72
Multilinguality and Multimodal NLP	Michel Galley (Microsoft Research)	12, 14
NLP Applications and NLP-enabled Technology	Mamoru Komachi (Tokyo Metropolitan University)	32, 34
NLP for the Web and Social Media	Miles Osborne (Johns Hopkins University), Alan Ritter (Carnegie Mellon University)	29, 29
Semantics	Iryna Gurevych (Technische Universität Darmstadt), Percy Liang (Stanford University), Shiqi Zhao (Baidu)	53, 37
Summarization	Yang Liu (University of Texas at Dallas)	19, 11
Question Answering	Scott Wen-tau Yih (Microsoft Research)	6, 4
Spoken Language Processing	Ciprian Chelba (Google Research)	9, 10
Tagging, Chunking, Syntax and Parsing	Xavier Carreras (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya), Slav Petrov (Google Research)	35, 48
Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation	Grzegorz Kondrak (University of Alberta)	10, 18

EMNLP 2014

Area	Chair(s)	Submissions
General Chair	Alessandro Moschitti (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
Program Chairs	Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp), Bo Pang (Google)
Phonology, Morphology, and Segmentation	Tomaž Erjavec (Jožef Stefan Institute)
Tagging, Chunking, Syntax and Parsing	Gosse Bouma (University of Groningen), Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
Discourse, Dialogue, and Pragmatics	Jennifer Chu-Carroll (IBM Watson Research Center), Olga Uryupina (University of Trento)
Semantics	Rada Mihalcea (University of Michigan), Sameer Pradhan (Harvard Medical School)
Summarization and Generation	Anja Belz (University of Brighton), Dilek Hakkani-Tür (Microsoft Research)
NLP-related Machine Learning: theory, methods and algorithms	Ivan Titov (University of Amsterdam), Jerry Zhu (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Machine Translation	Chris Callison-Burch (University of Pennsylvania), Dan Gildea (University of Rochester)
Information Retrieval, Text Categorization, and Question Answering	Sien Moens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Hinrich Schütze (Ludwig Maximilian University of M unich) ||
Information Extraction	Doug Downey (Northwestern University), Marius Pasca (Google)
Text Mining and Natural Language Processing Applications	Massimiliano Ciaramita (Google), Hwee Tou Ng (National University of Singapore)
Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining	Yejin Choi (Stony Brook University), Minlie Huang (Tsinghua University)
NLP for the Web and Social Media	Irwin King (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Qiaozhu Mei (University of Michigan)
Spoken Language Processing	Pascale Fung (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Hugo Van hamme (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Computational Psycholinguistics	Sharon Goldwater (University of Edinburgh)

ACL 2013

Area	Chair(s)	Submissions (long, short)
Cognitive Modelling and Psycholinguistics	*	13, 12
Dialogue and Interactive Systems		15, 10
Discourse, Coreference, and Pragmatics		28, 19
Evaluation Methods		11, 15
Information Retrieval		20, 20
Language Resources		24, 27
Lexical Semantics and Ontologies		25, 25
Low Resource Language Processing		10, 13
Machine Translation: Methods, Applications and Evaluations		50, 58
Machine Translation: Statistical Models		44, 30
Multilinguality		11, 10
NLP Applications		46, 42
NLP and Creativity		3, 4
NLP for the Languages of Central and Eastern Europe and The Balkans		2, 8
NLP for the Web and Social Media		32, 26
Phonology and Morphology		11, 10
Question Answering		14, 12
Semantics		50, 32
Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining and Text Classification		46, 60
Spoken Language Processing		9, 12
Statistical and Machine Learning Methods in NLP		35, 32
Summarization and Generation		31, 23
Syntax and Parsing		39, 43
Tagging and Chunking		12, 13
Text Mining and Information Extraction		68, 53
Word Segmentation		13, 15

• No information is found for the area chair for each specific area. Below is the list of all area chairs for ACL 2013:

Frank Keller, Roger Levy, Amanda Stent, David Suendermann, Andrew Kehler, Becky Passonneau, Hang Li, Nancy Ide, Piek Vossen, Philipp Cimiano, Sabine Schulte im Walde, Dekang Lin, Chiori Hori, Keh-Yih Su, Roland Kuhn, Dekai Wu, Benjamin Snyder, Thamar Solorio, Ehud Reiter, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Ken Church, Carlo Strapparava, Tomaz Erjavec, Adam Prziepiorkowski, Patrick Pantel, Owen Rambow, Chris Dyer, Jason Eisner, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Bernardo Magnini, Lluis Marquez, Alessandro Moschitti, Claire Cardie, Rada Mihalcea, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Walter Daelemans, Dan Roth, Alex Koller, Ani Nenkova, Jamie Henderson, Sadao Kurohashi, Yuji Matsumoto, Heng Ji, Marie-Francine Moens, Hwee Tou Ng

EMNLP 2013

Area	Chair(s)	Submissions (long, short)
General Chair	David Yarowsky (John Hopkins University, USA)
Program Chairs	Timothy Baldwin (University of Melbourne, Australia), Anna Korhonen (University of Cambridge, UK)
Phonology, Morphology, Tagging, Chunking and Segmentation	Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie Mellon University Qatar), Anna Feldman (Montclair State University, USA)
Syntax and Parsing	Jennifer Foster (Dublin City University, Ireland), Yoav Goldberg (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
Semantics	Mark Stevenson (University of Sheffield, UK), Luke Zettlemoyer (University of Washington, USA)
Discourse, Dialogue, and Pragmatics	Carolyn Rose (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Matt Purver (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
Language resources	Emily M. Bender (University of Washington, USA), Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Summarization and Generation	Dragomir Radev (University of Michigan, USA), Yang Liu (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
NLP-related Machine Learning: theory, methods and algorithms	Amir Globerson (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel), Antal van den Bosch (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands) ||
Machine Translation	Taro Watanabe (NICT, Japan), Kevin Knight (Information Sciences Institute, USA)
Information Retrieval and Question Answering	Bernardo Magnini (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy), Soumen Chakrabarti (Indian Institute of Technology, India)
Information Extraction	Mausam (Indian Institute of Technology, India), Heng Ji (City University of New York, USA)
Spoken Language Processing	Haizhou Li (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore), Amanda Stent (AT&T Labs, USA)
Text Mining and Natural Language Processing Applications	Hang Li (Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab, Hong Kong), Kevin Cohen (University of Colorado School of Medicine, USA)
Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining	Janyce Weibe (University of Pittsburgh, USA), Bing Liu (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
NLP for the Web and Social Media	Miles Osborne (University of Edinburgh, UK), Chin-Yew Lin (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Computational Models of Human Language Acquisition and Processing	Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa, Italy), Afra Alishahi (Tilburg University, Netherlands)

ACL 2012

Area	Chair(s)	Submissions (long, short)
Discourse and Dialogue	Mikio Nakano, Andrei Popescu-Belis	39, 23
Information Extraction and Information Retrieval	Jian Su, Jianfeng Gao, Vincent Ng	64, 37
Language Resources	Fei Xia	15, 13
Lexical Semantics	Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Naoaki Okazaki	38, 31
Lexicon and Ontology	Eneko Agirre	14, 12
Machine Learning	Trevor Cohn, Mark Dredze	56, 28
Machine Translation	Marcello Federico, Adam Lopez, David Talbot, Hua Wu	75, 56
Multilingual	Daniel M. Bikel, Mona T. Diab	31, 15
NLP Applications	Jason Baldridge, David Weir	41, 18
Syntax/Parsing	Stephen Clark, Liang Huang	64, 36
Question Answering	Hongyuan Zha, Hsin-Hsi Chen	11, 10
Social Media and Sentiment	Noah Smith, Jan Wiebe	51, 32
Speech	Chung-Hsien Wu	16, 12
Summarization & Generation	Anja Belz, Ani Nenkova	20, 23
Word Segmentation, Morphology and Phonology	Kemal Oflazer	36, 23

EMNLP 2012

Area	Chair(s)	Submissions
General Chair	Jun’ichi Tsujii (Microsoft Research Asia)
Program Chairs	James Henderson (Xerox Research Centre Europe), Marius Pasca (Google)
*	*

• No information is found for the area chair for each specific area. Below is the list of all area chairs for EMNLP 2012:

Eugene Agichtein (Emory University), Yejin Choi (Stony Brook University), Hal Daume III (University of Maryland), Doug Downey (Northwestern University), Chris Dyer (Carnegie Mellon University), Adria de Gispert (University of Cambridge), Julia Hirschberg (Columbia University), Anna Korhonen (University of Cambridge), Bing Liu (University of Illinois at Chicago), Hwee Tou Ng (National University of Singapore), Patrick Pantel (Microsoft Research), Marco Pennacchiotti (Yahoo! Labs), Slav Petrov (Google), Simone Paolo Ponzetto (Sapienza University of Rome), John Prager (IBM Research), Chris Quirk (Microsoft Research), Sebastian Riedel (University of Massachusetts at Amherst), Hiroya Takamura (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Partha Talukdar (Carnegie Mellon University), Carnegie Mellon University (Microsoft Research), Reut Tsarfaty (Uppsala University), Marilyn Walker (University of California at Santa Cruz)

NAACL 2012

Area	Chair(s)	Submissions (long, short)
General Chair	Jennifer Chu-Carroll (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
Program Chairs	Eric Fosler-Lussier (The Ohio State University), Ellen Riloff (University of Utah)
Semantics	Roberto Basili (University of Rome)
Summarization and Generation	Guiseppe Carenini (University of British Columbia)
Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining	Yejin Choi (Stony Brook University)
Language Resources Novel Evaluation Methods	Christy Doran (MITRE)
Phonology and Morphology Word Segmentation	Jason Eisner (Johns Hopkins University)
Machine Translation	George Foster (National Research Council Canada)
Social Media Analysis and Processing	Roxana Girju (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Information Extraction	Heng Ji (City University of New York)
Syntactic Tagging and Chunking	Sadao Kurohashi (Kyoto University)
Information Retrieval and Question Answering	Matt Lease (University of Texas Austin)
Discourse Dialogue and Pragmatics	Diane Litman (University of Pittsburgh)
Information Extraction	Deepak Ravichandran (Google)
Spoken Language Processing	Guiseppe Ricardi (University of Trento), Richard Rose (McGill University)
Syntax and Parsing	Giorgio Satta (University of Padova)
Machine Learning for Language Processing	Fei Sha (University of Southern California)
Semantics	Suzanne Stevenson (University of Toronto)
End-to-end Language Processing Systems	David Traum (University of Southern California)
Machine Learning for Language Processing	Scott Yih (Microsoft)
Syntax and Parsing	Luke Zettlemoyer (University of Washington)
Machine Translation	Bowen Zhou (IBM)
Document Categorization/Topic Clustering	Jerry Zhu (University of Wisconsin)

ACL 2011

Area	Chair(s)	Submissions (long, short)
Phonology/Morphology, Tagging and Chunking, Word Segmentation	Anna Feldman, Greg Kondrak	34,22
Syntax and Parsing	Xavier Carreras, Ryan McDonald	56,48
Semantics	Diana McCarthy, Deniz Yuret	48, 41
Discourse, Dialogue, and Pragmatics	Kentaro Inui, Svetlana Stoyanchev	31, 23
Summarization and Generation	Yang Liu, Manabu Okumura	36, 35
Statistical and Machine Learning Methods	Lluis Marquez, Alessandro Moschitti	42, 27
Machine Translation: Statistical Models	Shankar Kumar, Taro Watanabe	56, 39
Machine Translation: Methods, Applications and Evaluations	Elliott Macklovitch, Michel Simard	33, 53
Information Retrieval	Fabrizio Sebastiani	26, 11
Question Answering	Bernardo Magnini	19, 10
Text Mining and Information Extraction	Razvan Bunescu, Alexander Yates	51, 38
Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining and Text Classification	Katja Markert, Xiaojun Wan	45, 38
Spoken Language Processing	Pascale Fung	20, 13
Natural Language Processing Applications	Vasile Rus	30, 51
Language Resources	Chu-Ren Huang, Dan Tufis	32, 26
Multilinguality	Thamar Solorio	24, 16
NLP for Web 2.0	Vivi Nastase	31, 16
Linguistic Creativity	Carlo Strapparava	20, 17

EMNLP 2011

Area	Chair(s)	Submissions
General Chair	Paola Merlo (University of Geneva)
Program Chairs	Regina Barzilay (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Mark Johnson (Macquarie University)
*	*

• No information is found for the area chair for each specific area. Below is the list of all area chairs for EMNLP 2011:

Emily M. Bender (University of Washington), Phil Blunsom (University of Oxford), Eugene Charniak (Brown University), Chris Dyer (Carnegie Mellon University), Jenny Finkel (Columbia University), Radu Florian (IBM Watson Research Center), Amir Globerson (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Keith Hall (Google Research), Minlie Huang (Tsinghua University), Katrin Kirchhoff (University of Washington), Mirella Lapata (University of Edinburgh), Chin-Yew Lin (Microsoft Research Asia), Bo Pang (Yahoo! Research), Stefan Riezler (University of Heidelberg), Ellen Riloff (University of Utah), Hinrich Schuetze (University of Stuttgart), Jian Su (Institute for Infocomm Research), Dekai Wu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Luke Zettlemoyer (University of Washington)

ACL 2010

Area	Chair(s)	Submissions (long + short)
Lexical semantics	Tim Baldwin, Roberto Navigli	87
Machine Learning	Phil Blunsom, Walter Daelemans	87
Information Extraction	Kalina Bontcheva, Hang Li	52
Formal semantics	Johan Bos	24
Sentiment Analysis	Claire Cardie, Theresa Wilson	69
Text mining	Rob Gaizauskas	30
Machine Translation	Keith Hall, Chris Quirk	100
Speech processing	Julia Hirschberg	33
Resources	Nancy Ide	50
Multi-modal	Michael Johnston	18
Psycholinguistics	Roger Levy	16
Question Answering and paraphrasing	Chin-Yew Lin	40
Parsing, grammatical inference, syntax	Yusuke Miyao, Khalil Sima'an	88
Generation and summarisation	Ani Nenkova, Bonnie Webber	55
Discourse and dialogue	Jon Oberlander, Matthew Stone	56
Mathematical linguistics	Stuart Shieber	29
Tagging, segmentation and morphology	Richard Sproat	51
Bioinformatics	Jun'ichi Tsujii	12
Information Retrieval	ChengXiang Zhai	33

COLING 2010

Area	Chair(s)	Submissions (long. we had no short)
Machine Translation	Chris Callison-Burch, Qun Liu	109
Semantics	Sebastian Pado, Takenobu Tokunaga	102
Sentiment Analysis and Text Classification	Bo Pang	61
Information Extraction	Gary Geunbae Lee	61
Information Retrieval and Question Answering	Rosie Jones	55
Summarization and Generation	Donia Scott	53
Text Mining and NLP Applications	Ming Zhou	50
Parsing	Sadao Kurohashi	48
Statistical and Machine Learning Methods	David A Smith	42
Language Resources	Nicoletta Calzolari	38
Discourse and Pragmatics	Caroline Sporleder	38
Chinese Natural Language Processing	Nianwen Xue	34
Tagging and Morphology-Phonology	Rajeev Sangal	29
Syntax and Grammar	Emily Bender	28
Multilingualism	Pierre Isabelle	26
Dialog and Multimodal	Justine Cassell	16
Spoken Language Processing	Haizhou Li	9
Cognitive Modeling	Roger Levy	9

EMNLP 2010

Area	Chair(s)	Submissions
Program Chairs	Hang Li (Microsoft Research Asia), Llu´ıs Marquez (Technical University of Catalonia)
*	*

• No information is found for the area chair for each specific area. Below is the list of all area chairs for EMNLP 2010:

Eneko Agirre (University of the Basque Country), Kalina Bontcheva (University of Sheffield), Antal van den Bosch (Tilburg University), David Chiang (USC Information Sciences Institute), Jennifer Chu-Carroll (IBM Research), Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Yahoo! Research), Jianfeng Gao (Microsoft Research), Julio Gonzalo (UNED), Nancy Ide (Vassar College), Haizhou Li (Institute for Infocomm Research), Qun Liu (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Yusuke Miyao (National Institute of Informatics), Bo Pang (Yahoo! Research), Dragomir Radev (University of Michigan), Noah Smith (Carnegie Mellon University), Kristina Toutanova (Microsoft Research), Yoshimasa Tsuruoka (JAIST), Yi Zhang (University of California, Santa Cruz)

NAACL 2010

Area	Chair(s)	Submissions
General Chair	Ronald Kaplan (Microsoft Bing)
Program Chairs	Jill Burstein (Educational Testing Service), Mary Harper (University of Maryland and The Johns Hopkins University)
*	*

• No information is found for the area chair for each specific area. Below is the list of all area chairs for NAACL 2010:

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

ACL 2009

Area	Chair(s)	Submissions (long)
Phonology/Morphology, Tagging and Chunking, Word Segmentation	Greg Kondrak	29
Syntax and Parsing	Noah Smith, James Curran	47
Semantics	Eneko Agirre, Rada Mihalcea	67
Discourse, Dialogue, and Pragmatics	Massimo Poesio, Michael Strube	41
Summarization and Generation	Anja Belz	44
Statistical and Machine Learning Methods	Jianfeng Gao, Jun Suzuki	36
Machine Translation	Hai Feng Wang, Philipp Koehn	80
Information Retrieval	Hsin-Hsi Chen	29
Information Extraction	Ellen Riloff, Satoshi Sekine	52
Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining and Text Classification	Giuseppe Carenini	44
Spoken Language Processing	Helen Meng	20
Question Answering	Sanda Harabagiu	23
Text Mining and Natural Language Processing Applications	Sophi Ananiadou	19
Language Resources	Keh-Jiann Chen

EMNLP 2009

Area	Chair(s)	Submissions (long)
Phonology/Morphology, Tagging and Chunking, Word Segmentation	Jason Eisner	24
Syntax and Parsing	Steve Clark	29
Semantics	Vivi Nastase	45
Discourse, Dialogue, and Pragmatics	Tim Paek	28
Summarization and Generation	Chin-Yew Lin	25
Statistical and Machine Learning Methods	Miles Osborne	32
Machine Translation	Adam Lopez	68
Information Retrieval and Question Answering	Hang Li	33
Information Extraction and Text Mining	Marius Pasca	39
Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining and Text Classification	Theresa Wilson	37
Spoken Language Processing	Eric Fosler-Lussier	11
Natural Language Processing Applications	Carlo Strapparava	22
Language Resources	Katrin Erk	26
Multilinguality	Mona Diab	22
NLP for Web 2.0	Iryna Gurevych	20

COLING 2008

Area	Chair(s)	Submissions (long. we had no short)
Lexicon, lexical semantics, word sense disambiguation	Paul Buitelaar	45
Semantics	Stephen Pulman Mary Dalrymple	46
Discourse, dialogue	Eva Hajicova	24
NLG, summarisation	Robert Dale	36
Parsing, morphology, grammar learning	Mark Johnson	68
Machine Translation and Multilinguality	Pierre Isabelle, Miles Osborne	86
Information Retrieval, text and web mining, multimedia	Junichi Tsujii	54
Information Extraction, opinion and sentiment Analysis	Rob Gaizauskus	24
Paraphrasing and Textual Entailment	Bill Dolan	21
Speech and multimodality	Julia Hirschberg	16
Resources	Chu-Ren Huang	56
Learning	Dan Roth	29