Conference Chairs

For more conference chairs, see Additional conference chairs.

ACL Conference

Year	Location	General Chair	Program Chair(s)	Local Arrangements Chair(s)
2025	Vienna, Austria	Roberto Navigli	Wanxiang Che, Joyce Nabende, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, Ekaterina Shutova	Benjamin Roth, Dagmar Gromann
2024	Bangkok, Thailand	Claire Gardent	Lun-Wei Ku, Andre Martins, Vivek Srikumar	Thepchai Supnithi, Prachya Boonkwan, Thanaruk Theeramunkong
2023	Toronto, Canada	Yang Liu	Jordan Boyd-Graber, Naoaki Okazaki, Anna Rogers
2022	Dublin, Ireland	Bernardo Magnini	Smaranda Muresan, Preslav Nakov, Aline Villavicencio	John Kelleher, Andy Way
2021	Online/Bangkok	Chengqing Zong	Fei Xia, Wenjie Li, Roberto Navigli	Priscilla Rasmussen, Thepchai Supnithi, Thanaruk Theeramunkong
2020	Virtual	Dan Jurafsky	Joyce Chai, Natalie Schluter, Joel Tetreault	Jianfeng Gao, Priscilla Rasmussen, Luke Zettlemoyer
2019	Florence, Italy	Lluis Marquez	Anna Korhonen, David Traum	Bernardo Magnini, Alessandro Lenci, Simonetta Montemagni, Maria Cristina Schiavone
2018	Melbourne, Australia	Claire Cardie	Iryna Gurevych, Yusuke Miyao	Tim Baldwin, Karin Verspoor, Trevor Cohn
2017	Vancouver, BC, Canada	Chris Callison-Burch	Regina Barzilay, Min-Yen Kan	Priscilla Rasmussen
2016	Berlin, Germany	Antal van den Bosch	Katrin Erk, Noah Smith	Valia Kordoni, Markus Egg
2015 w/IJCNLP	Beijing, China	Yuji Matsumoto	Chengqing Zong, Michael Strube	Le Sun (CAS), Yang Liu (Tsinghua)
2014	Baltimore, MD, USA	Daniel Marcu	Kristina Toutanova, Hua Wu	David Yarowsky
2013	Sofia, Bulgaria	Hinrich Schuetze	Pascale Fung, Massimo Poesio	Svetla Koeva
2012 w/IJCNLP	Jeju, Republic of Korea	Haizhou Li	Chin-Yew Lin, Miles Osborne	Gary Geunbae Lee, Jong C. Park
2011	Portland, OR, USA	Dekang Lin	Rada Mihalcea, Yuji Matsumoto	Brian Roark
2010	Uppsala, Sweden	Jan Hajic	Sandra Carberry, Stephen Clark	Joakim Nivre
2009 w/ IJCNLP	Suntec, Singapore	Keh-Yih Su	Jian Su, Janyce Wiebe	Haizhou Li
2008 w/ NAACL HLT	Columbus, OH, USA	Kathleen McKeown	Johanna Moore, Simone Teufel, Sadaoki Furui (speech), James Allan (IR)	Chris Brew
2007	Prague, Czech Republic	John Carroll	Annie Zaenen, Antal van den Bosch	Eva Hajicova
2006 w/ COLING	Sydney, Australia	Nicoletta Calzolari	Claire Cardie, Pierre Isabelle	Robert Dale, Cecile Paris
2005 w/ NAACL	Ann Arbor, MI, USA	Kevin Knight	Hwee Tou Ng, Kemal Oflazer	Dragomir Radev
2004	Barcelona, Spain	Donia Scott	Walter Daelemans, Marilyn Walker	Toni Badia
2003	Sapporo, Japan	Jun'ichi Tsujii	Erhard Hinrichs, Dan Roth	Kenji Araki
2002 w/ NAACL	Philadelphia, PA, USA	Pierre Isabelle	Eugene Charniak, Dekang Lin	Martha Palmer
2001	Toulouse, France	Bonnie Webber	Norbert Reithinger, Giorgio Satta	Patrick Saint-Dizier
2000	Hong Kong, China	Hitoshi Iida	K. Vijay-Shanker, Chang-Ning Huang	Dekai Wu
1999	College Park, MD, USA		Robert Dale, Ken Church	Bonnie Dorr
1998 w/COLING	Montreal, QC, Canada		Christian Boitet, Pete Whitelock	Pierre Isabelle
1997	Madrid, Spain		Philip Cohen, Wolfgang Wahlster	Maria Felisa Verdejo
1996	Santa Cruz, CA, USA		Aravind Joshi, Martha Palmer	Douglas Appelt, Geoffrey Pullum
1995	Cambridge, MA, USA		Hans Uszkoreit	Robert Berwick
1994	Las Cruces, NM, USA		James Pustejovsky	Janyce Wiebe
1993	Columbus, OH, USA		Lenhart Schubert	Terry Patten, Robert Kasper
1992	Newark, DE, USA		Henry Thompson	Sandra Carberry, Dan Chester, Kathleen McCoy
1991	Berkeley, CA, USA		Douglas Appelt	Peter Norvig
1990	Pittsburgh, PA, USA		Robert Berwick	Rich Thomason
1989	Vancouver, BC, Canada		Julia Hirschberg	Richard Rosenberg
1988	Buffalo, NY		Jerry Hobbs	William Rappaport
1987			Candy Sidner	Douglas Appelt
1986			Alan Biermann	Kathleen McKeown, Cecile Paris
1985	Chicago, IL, USA		William Mann	Martha Evens, Victor Yngve
1984
1983			Mitch Marcus	Jon Allen
1982			Madeleine Bates	C. Raymond Perrault
1981			C. Raymond Perrault	Jerry Kaplan
1980	Philadelphia, PA, USA	Norman Sondheimer ?	Gary Hendrix	Kathleen McKeown
1979	San Diego, CA, USA		Norman Sondheimer	Jim Levin

NAACL Conference

Year	Location	General Conference Chair	Program Chair	Local Arrangements Chair
2025	Albuquerque, New Mexico	Colin Cherry	Luis Chiruzzo, Alan Ritter, Lu Wang	Jennifer Rachford
2024	Mexico City, Mexico	Katrin Erk	Kevin Duh, Helena Gómez-Adorno, Steven Bethard	Priscilla Rasmussen, Jennifer Rachford, Hiram Calvo
2022	Seattle, WA	Dan Roth	Marine Carpuat, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Ivan Meza Ruiz	Priscilla Rasmussen, Jennifer Rachford
2021	Online	Kristina Toutanova	Anna Rumshisky, Luke Zettlemoyer, Dilek Hakkani-Tür	Priscilla Rasmussen
2019	Minneapolis, MN	Jill Burstein	Christy Doran, Ted Pedersen, Thamar Solorio	Priscilla Rasmussen
2018	New Orleans, LA	Marilyn Walker	Heng Ji, Amanda Stent	Priscilla Rasmussen
2016	San Diego, CA	Kevin Knight	Ani Nenkova, Owen Rambow	Priscilla Rasmussen
2015	Denver, CO	Rada Mihalcea	Joyce Chai, Anoop Sarkar	Priscilla Rasmussen
2013	Atlanta, GA	Lucy Vanderwende	Katrin Kirchhoff, Hal Daume	Priscilla Rasmussen
2012	Montreal, QC	Jennifer Chu-Carroll	Srinivas Bangalore, Eric Fosler-Lussier, Ellen Riloff	Priscilla Rasmussen
2011 w/ACL
2010	Los Angeles, CA	Ronald Kaplan	Jill Burstein, Mary Harper, Gerald Penn	David Chiang, Eduard Hovy, Jonathan May, Jason Riesa
2009	Boulder, CO	Mari Ostendorf	Michael Collins, Lucy Vanderwende, Doug Oard, Shri Narayanan	Martha Palmer and James Martin
2008 w/ ACL
2007 w/ HLT	Rochester, NY	Candace Sidner	Tanja Schultz, Matthew Stone, ChengXiang Zhai	James Allen, Daniel Gildea, Lenhart Schubert
2006 w/ HLT	New York, NY	Robert C. Moore	Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Jeff Bilmes, Mark Sanderson	Satoshi Sekine
2005 w/ ACL
2004 w/ HLT	Boston, MA	Julia Hirschberg	Susan Dumais, Daniel Marcu, Salim Roukos	Christine Doran
2003 w/ HLT	Edmonton, AB	Eduard Hovy	Marti Hearst, Mari Ostendorf	Dekang Lin
2002 w/ ACL
2001	Pittsburgh, PA	Lori Levin	Kevin Knight	Alon Lavie
2000 w/ ANLP	Seattle, WA	Marie Meteer	Janyce Wiebe, Sergei Nirenburg	Rick Wojcik

ANLP Conference

Year	Conference Chair	Program Chair	Local Arrangements Chair
2000 w/ NAACL
1997		Ralph Grishman	John White
1994
1992
1988
1983

EACL Conference

Year	Location	Conference Chair	Program Chair	Local Arrangements Chair
2024	Torino, Italy (joint LREC-COLING)	Michael Strube	Yvette Graham, Matthew Purver	–
2023	Dubrovnik, Croatia	Alessandro Moschitti	Isabelle Augenstein, Andreas Vlachos	–
2021	Online	Paola Merlo	Jorg Tiedemann, Reut Tsarfaty	-
2017	Valencia, Spain	Mirella Lapata	Phil Blunsom, Alexander Koller	Paolo Rosso, Francisco Casacuberta, Jon Ander Gómez
2014	Gothenburg, Sweden	Shuly Wintner	Sharon Goldwater, Stefan Riezler	Lars Borin, Aarne Ranta
2012	Avignon, France	Walter Daelemans	Mirella Lapata,Lluís Màrquez	Marc El-Beze
2009	Athens, Greece	Alex Lascarides	Mirella Lapata, Lluis Marquez
2006	Trento, Italy		Diana McCarthy, Shuly Wintner	Bernardo Magnini, Alberto Lavelli
2003	Budapest	Claire Gardent	Ann Copestake, Jan Hajic	Ferenc Kiefer
1999	Bergen, Norway		Henry Thompson, Alex Lascarides	Koenraad de Smedt
1997 w/ ACL
1993	Utrecht, The Netherlands		Steven Krauwer, Michael Moortgat, Louis des Tombe	Renee Pohlmann
1991	Berlin, Germany		Jurgen Kunze, Dorothee Reimann
1989	Manchester, England		Harold Somers, Mary McGee Wood
1987	Copenhagen, Denmark		Bente Maegaard	Rolf Christensen
1985	Geneva, Switzerland		Maghi King	Michael Rosner
1983	Pisa, Italy	Antonio Zampolli

COLING Conference

Year	Location	Conference Chair	Program Chair	Local Arrangements Chair
2025	Abu Dhabi, UAE	Owen Rambow, Leo Wanner	Marianna Apidianaki, Hend Al-Khalifa, Barbara Di Eugenio, Steven Schockaert	Preslav Nakov, Alham Fikri Aji, Yova Kementchedjhieva, Ekaterina Kochmar, Teresa Lynn, Monojit Choudhury, Nizar Habash, Ahmed Dabbagh
2024	Torino, Italy (joint LREC-COLING)	Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan	Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakti Sakriani, Nianwen Xue	Valerio Basile, Cristina Bosco, Viviana Patti
2022	Gyeongju, South Korea	Nicoletta Calzolari, Chu-Ren Huang	Hansaem Kim, James Pustejovsky, Leo Wanner	Key-Sun Choi, Pum-Mo Ryu
2020	Barcelona, Spain (online)	Donia Scott	Núria Bel, Chengqing Zong	–
2018	Santa Fe, USA	Pierre Isabelle	Emily M. Bender, Leon Derczynski	Sergei Nirenburg
2016	Osaka, Japan	Nicoletta Calzolari	Yuji Matsumoto, Rashmi Prasad	Eiichiro Sumita, Takenobu Tokunaga, Sadao Kurohashi
2014	Dublin, Ireland	Andy Way, Josef van Genabith	Junichi Tsujii, Jan Hajic	Cara Greene, John Judge
2012	Mumbai, India		Martin Kay, Christian Boitet	Pushpak Bhattacharrya, Rajeev Sangal
2010	Beijing, China	Aravind K .Joshi	Chu-Ren Huang, Dan Jurafsky	Chengqing Zong, Le Sun
2008	Manchester, UK		Donia Scott, Hans Uszkoreit	Harold Somers
2006 w/ ACL	Sydney, Australia	Nicoletta Calzolari	Claire Cardie, Pierre Isabelle	Robert Dale, Cecile Paris
2004	Geneva, Switzerland	Martin Kay	Sergei Nirenburg	Margaret King
2002	Taipei, Taiwan		Winfried Lenders	Chu-Ren Huang, Sharon Wang
2000	Saarbrucken, Germany		Martin Kay	Hans Uszkoreit
1998 w/ ACL	Montreal, QC, Canada		Christian Boitet, Pete Whitelock	Pierre Isabelle
1996	Copenhagen, Denmark		Junichi Tsujii	B. Maegaard
1994	Kyoto, Japan
1992	Nantes, France
1990	Helsinki, Finland
1988	Budapest, Hungary

IJCNLP Conference

Year	Location	Conference Chair	Program Chair	Local Arrangements Chair
2017	Taipei,Taiwan	Chengqing Zong	Greg Kondrak, Taro Watanabe	Hsin-Hsi Chen, Yuen-Hsien Tseng, Chung-Hsien Wu, Liang-Chih Yu
2015 w/ ACL	Beijing, China	Yuji Matsumoto	Chengqing Zong, Michael Strube	Le Sun (CAS), Yang Liu (Tsinghua)
2013	Nagoya, Japan	Hsin-Hsi Chen	Ruslan Mitkov, Jong Park	Hitoshi Isahara
2011	Chiang Mai, Thailand	Kam-Fai Wong	Haifeng Wang, David Yarowsky	Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Hitoshi Isahara
2009 w/ ACL	Suntec, Singapore	Keh-Yih Su	Jian Su, Janyce Wiebe	Haizhou Li
2008	Hyderabad, India	Jong-Hyeok Lee	Yuji Matsumoto, Ann Copestake	Rajeev Sangal
2005	Jeju, Republic of Korea	Key-Sun Choi	Robert Dale, Kam-fai Wong	Jong-Hyeok Lee
2004	Sanya City, Hainan Island, China	Guangnan Ni, Benjamin Tsou	Keh-Yih Su, Jun-ichi Tsujii	Youqi Cao

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	Conference Chair	Program Chair	Local Arrangements Chair
2006 w/ NAACL
2005 w/ EMNLP
2004 w/ NAACL
2003 w/ NAACL
2002	Mitch Marcus, David Yarowsky
2001	James Allan, Mitch Marcus

EMNLP Conference

Year	Location	General Chair	Program Chair	Local Arrangements Chair
2025	Suzhou, China	Dirk Hovy	Christos Christodoulopoulos, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Carolyn Rose, Violet Peng	Wei Ji, Jiaheng Liu
2024	Miami, FL, USA	Thamar Solorio	Yaser Al-Onaizan, Mohit Bansal, Yun-Nung (Vivian) Chen	Mark Finlayson, Zoey Liu
2023	Singapore	Yuji Matsumoto	Houda Bouamor, Juan Pino, Kalika Bali	Haizhou Li
2022	Abu Dhabi	Noah Smith	Yoav Goldberg, Zornitsa Kozareva, Yue Zhang	–
2021	Online (Punta Cana)	Marie-Francine Moens	Xuanjing Huang, Lucia Specia, Scott Yih	–
2020	Online	Bonnie Webber	Trevor Cohn, Yulan He, Yang Liu	–
2019	Hong Kong (with IJCNLP)	Kentaro Inui	Jing Jiang, Vincent Ng, Xiaojun Wan	Haizhou Li
2018	Brussels, Belgium	Ellen Riloff	David Chiang, Julia Hockenmaier, Junichi Tsujii	Dominique De Brabanter, Frieda Steurs, Karin Beckers, Marie-Francine Moens
2017	Copenhagen, Denmark	Martha Palmer	Sebastian Riedel, Rebecca Hwa	Anders Søgaard, Dirk Hovy
2016	Austin, TX, USA	Jian Su	Kevin Duh, Xavier Carreras	Priscilla Rasmussen
2015	Lisbon, Portugal	Lluís Màrquez	Chris Callison-Burch, Jian Su	André Martins, João Graça
2014	Doha, Qatar	Alessandro Moschitti	Bo Pang, Walter Daelemans	Kareem Darwish
2013	Seattle, WA, USA	David Yarowsky	Tim Baldwin, Anna Korhonen
2012	Jeju, Republic of Korea		Jun'ichi Tsujii, James Henderson, Marius Pasca	Gary Geunbae Lee, Jong C. Park
2011	Edinburgh, UK		Paola Merlo, Regina Barzilay, Mark Johnson	Bonnie Webber
2010	Cambridge, MA, USA		Hang Li, Lluís Màrquez	Regina Barzilay
2009	Suntec, Singapore		Philipp Koehn, Rada Mihalcea	Haizhou Li
2008	Waikiki, Hawaii		Mirella Lapata, Hwee Tou Ng	Priscilla Rasmussen
2007 w/ CoNLL	Prague, Czech Republic		Jason Eisner	Jan Hajic
2006	Sydney, Australia		Dan Jurafsky, Eric Gaussier	James Curran
2005	Vancouver, BC, Canada		Chris Brew, Lee-Feng Chien, Katrin Kirchhoff	Priscilla Rasmussen
2004	Barcelona, Spain		Dekang Lin, Dekai Wu
2003	Sapporo, Japan		Michael Collins, Mark Steedman
2002	Philadelphia, PA, USA		Jan Hajic, Yuji Matsumoto
2001	Pittsburgh, PA, USA		Lillian Lee, Donna Harman
2000	Hong Kong, China		Hinrich Schuetze, Keh-Yih Su
1999	College Park, MD, USA		Pascale Fung, Joe Zhou
1998 held as EMNLP	Grenada, Spain		Nancy Ide, Atro Voutilainen
1998 held as VLC	Montreal, QC, Canada	Eugene Charniak
1997 held as EMNLP	Providence, Rhode Island		Claire Cardie, Ralph Weischedel
1997 held as VLC	Beijing, China		Huang Changning, Ken Church, Joe Zhou
1996 held as EMNLP			Eric Brill, Kenneth Church
1996 held as VLC			Eva Ejerhed, Ido Dagan
1995 held as VLC			Kenneth Church, David Yarowsky	Robert Berwick
1994 held as VLC	Kyoto, Japan		Pierre Isabelle, Kenneth Church
1993 held as VLC	Columbus, OH, USA		Kenneth Church	Terry Patten, Robert Kasper