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ACL08: HLT General Conference Chair Report

Kathleen McKeown

February 1, 2008

Overview

The chairs of the various conference activities are working hard and are on track with the timelines. A report from each area is given below. Questions which are under discussion are at the beginning of each section.

The one area where there has been more difficulty is in sponsorship. I had trouble getting the North American co-chair and only recently did Inderjeet Mani agree to take on this position, but for 2008 only. The other two chairs are Mike White (local) and Josef van Genabith (Europe). Josef has been silent in response to emails. Mike White and Inderjeet are becoming active now that both are on board. If Priscilla could get involved, that would really help. I think it will go OK with just Mike and Inderjeet, but it will not look like the new proposed model.

There is one question that the Exec needs to resolve today: A SIGDIAL student run workshop:entitled Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems (www.yrrsds.org). This workshop would like to run independently of ACL, be co-located, receive no funding, but be associated with it. By association they mean that they would like to be listed as a related event on the conference website. I believe the ACL Exec needs to vote on this request. I have informed them that in this situation they are entirely responsible for their own local arrangements, the proceedings must be in the same style as the ACL proceedings and ACL would like to the right to sell them afterwards.

The order of reports is: PC Chairs, Workshop Chair, Student Workshop, Tutorials, Demos, Sponsorship. Of these, we need to look at questions from the Workshop Chair and the tutorials chair. Also, if the exec has input on invited speakers that would be helpful. The PC Chairs make some suggestions on improving START for next year.

PC Chair Report

As expected, the PC Chairs are working well together. They keep me in the loop on email and everything seems to be going according to plan.

The statistics on submissions and reviewing progress across all areas is given below. Speech and IR submissions are broken out first. Note that we got a low number of

submissions to speech, suggesting that we might want to do special publicity in the speech area before the next HLT conference.

We are currently working on selecting invited speakers and would like to get one each in the areas of speech, information retrieval, and natural language processing.

Some suggestions on improvements to START

a) list papers which are in more than one areab) total count of not-yet-rejected papers and breakdown into tracks c) make rejected papers invisible in all listingsd) create overview of review progress per areae) CoI treatment (though we'd have to think about how to do that)

Speech:

The speech track status is as follows: Number of papers submitted: 14 Number of area chairs: 3 The submitted papers are divided to 2 areas: 9 speech recognition papers and 4 speech synthesis papers.  One area chair has no papers to handle. The total number of reviewers having papers to review: 33 So far 3 reviews out of 42 (=14x3) have been submitted.

IR

There are 28 papers in the IR track Three area chairs are dividing them roughly equally We have a pool of 23 reviewers Each paper has been assigned exactly 3 reviewers, so 3*28=84 reviews have been

requested One of those reviews is coming from a speech track reviewer. Reviewers got 3-4 papers on average.   One or two reviewers were working with

another track, too, so we tried to keep their load extra light. We "loaned" one of our reviewers to the multimedia track to review a paper in

their area. Reviewers were notified of their assignments 9 days ago, on January 21st at

4:22pm (US eastern time) Reviews are due February 18th One of those 84 reviews is complete

Overall paper statistics

--------------------475 non-withdrawn, non-duplicate submissions were received (11 of these were anonymised within 24 hour deadline)3 were rejected without review due to anonymisation problems2 were rejected without review due to length----470 papers currently in review

-----------------------------------Distribution over areas:___________________________________

Dialogue/Natural language interaction (16)Discourse and Pragmatics (11)Evaluation (13)Information retrieval (28) Information extraction (33)Question Answering (11)Sentiment Analysis (19)Language resources (11)Language generation (13)Machine Translation and Multilingual Processing (86)Multimodal processing (5)Phonology Morphology POS tagging Word segmentation (32)Semantics (62)Summarization (21)Syntax and Parsing (55)Speech Processing (13)Statistical and Machine Learning techniques (41)------470

44 changed tracks before review, in discussion with area chairs

Review progress:

Assigned = 1410 Completed = 82 (5.8%)(470 X 3)--------------------------------------------------------total number of reviewers: 595; list appended.

Reviewers (all areas)

Reviewers in all areas are given in appendix 2 at the end of the report.

Workshop Report

Ming Zhou is an excellent, quite well organized chair. I would definitely recommend asking him again for some role in ACL organization.

There are some questions that need to be addressed:

   1. Many organizers are starting to set up paper review tool with the help of James Clarke. I need to find out status on this from James.

2.       Many organizers are asking Ming whether they can get ACL help to distribute their CFP to a wide audience. I assume this is possible?

3.       Many people want to know the exact date of the workshop. If the exec needs to OK this, please check the dates below. Chris and Priscilla, we would like your input.

4.       Some people asked whether they can put the workshop webpage at the ACL main site.

5.       The number of the participants are estimated by the workshop organizer based on the previous workshops or the number of the PC members. The number is not accurate at the moment.

6.       Also, some workshops explicitly express that they would like to have a poster. But many workshops don’t mention whether they would like to have a poster session. I will recommend that Ming explicitly poll workshops on this, but is there any constraint on this?

7.       Also, the important dates of every workshop are exactly following the ACL08 workshop CFP web pages.

The full report is detailed and lengthy so is provided in Appendix 1.

Student Workshop

We had started working on the list of reviewers at the beginning of November. We sent invitation letters to 105 candidates. In mid December, the Program Committee (PC) was

finalized with 61 reviewers, 31 of them are non-students and 30 of them are students. The full list of the PC is available on the Student Research Workshop (SWR) web page at http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/acl08/srw.html. 27 student papers with different topics were submitted to the SRW through the online submission system. We have assigned the submitted papers to the reviewers by using the keywords of the papers and the reviewers' research interests. Each paper has been assigned to five reviewers, two students and three non-students. Each reviewer has to review at most three papers, most students will review only one or two papers. With five reviews, the authors should get more valuable feedbacks on their (ongoing) research, which is a goal of the SRW. By now (Jan 30, 1pm UTC), we have received 15 reviews and deadline for the reviews are announced as February, 18 to the reviewers. The quality of the submissions is mixed and only the 10-15 (this number can change depending on the reviews) high-quality papers will be accepted for the workshop. We are planning to make the arrangements concerning the schedules or locations for the SRW after the notification of acceptance. The NSF proposal is still pending, and Jan Wiebe sent an e-mail asking about timing. A minor proposition for next year's organization: A list of all chairs/organizers of all parts of the ACL conference would eventually be useful. It would make finding the appropriate person to write to concerning a specific problem (e.g., the submission page) easier and save time.

Tutorials Report

We got 13 submissions total. I am not sure what is the usual percentage of submissions that were done by people who were specially invited by the tutorial chairs---in our case these were 6 of the proposals. The main difficulty was in getting good speech and information retrieval proposals and I and Eugene spoke with a number of people to get the ones we ended up with. I think this might be a problem for HLT, where the three areas should in theory be fairly represented. There is little we can do now, but the issue might be one of the things to be considered post conference.

Now for the actual proposals. All three of us agree on our top four choices:1. Introduction to Computational Advertising (IR), Yahoo, Gabrilovich et al2. Building Practical Spoken Dialog Systems (Speech), CMU, Alan Black et al3. Semi-supervised Learning for Natural Language Processing (ML for NLP), John Blitzer and Xiaojin (Jerry) Zhu4. Advanced Online Learning for Natural Language Processing (ML for NLP), Koby Crammer

We'd like to choose the other two tutorials among the following four but the choice is difficult. Suggestions are welcome.:5. Interactive Visualization for Computational Linguistics, G. Penn and two other profs from Toronto. It is supposed to teach people how to properly visualize large datasets. If people are interested in the topic this would be a timely tutorial unlike any other given in thepast. But then who knows, NLPers might decide it is simply not relevant.

6. Statistical Language Models for Information Retrieval and Text

Mining, Cheng Zhai, Q. Mei/UIUC. A very similar (very well attended) tutorial was given at NAACL-HLT'07, so very recently. Eugene had asked Chang Zhai to change the tutorial a bit, but overall he didn't make many changes for the proposal at least.

7. Speech technology from research to industry, Roberto Pieraccini.The presenter is Jackson Liscomb's current boss who runs the start up.Julia says he is a very good presenter and he obviously knows a lot about real system deployment. People who know him say he is a good speaker, generally very good at giving broad overview lectures. The concern is that is it is too broad people would not find it that interesting. There is also some overlap with the CMU proposal on dialog systems that we definitely want to accept.

8. Speech-to-Speech Translation, IBMGiven that there is so much interest in MT, people might want to hear the tutorial. But then by definition this will be simply an overview of recent work. All three potential presenters for the tutorial are Chinese and I was told they speak with heavy accents and are not very charismatic speakers. I remember once Yuqing Gao gave a talk at Columbia and it was indeed not very inspiring. I have never heard the other two people on the proposal.

In addition, proposals 6 and 7 are from people we have asked directly to submit a tutorial proposal. Of course there was no promise the proposals will be accepted.

Demos

Jimmy Lin is waiting for submissions which will come at the same time as short papers. He reports that the following people will help with reviewing and recruiting from other areas:

Donald Metzler (Yahoo Research) - IR Damianos Karakos (JHU) – SpeechLucy Vanderwende for NLP.

Publicity

Diane made a flier (which Hal put up at NIPS, and Eric got Jeff Bilmes to put up at IEEE ASRU). Diane is also planning on bringing it to the conference on Digital Libraries, as well as a visit to Google and FXPal, plus the SIGIR PC meeting.

Diane also collected and submitted the names of mailing lists for IR, Digital Libs, and Info Science.

Hal posted the flier on several machine learning/statistics mailing lists.

Right now, they are modifying the "call for contributions" to a "call for participation" and will circulate this shortly.

Sponsorship

Local Report (Mike White)

Re local sponsorship, Chris and I discussed contacting the following organizations:

* OSU College of Humanities* OSU College of Engineering* Battelle* Chemical Abstracts Service* OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.* Lexis-Nexis (Dayton, OH)* Wright-Patterson Air Force Research Lab (Dayton, OH)

Note that we should coordinate to ensure that these organizations (perhaps other than OSU) are offered the same sponsorship opportunities.  What makes them different from the national/global groups is that they'd be much less likely to sponsor an event outside of Ohio.

Re sponsorship opportunities, we discussed logos on the conf. bag or booklet, banners, gifts (eg usb drives), and ads in the conf bag or booklet.  Chris seemed to think that in the past, a small ad would not cost much more than the conf registration and would include one free registration, thereby encouraging small/med business participation.  Another possibility is sponsoring part of the conference; for example, Google specifically was recognized for sponsoring the reception in Sydney (perhaps that's what you meant by "naming an event").

For OSU, what would go over best is something specifically related to student participation.  Here I'd like to get some input from previous local folks, eg from the Rochester or Michigan meetings.

Finally, we came up with the idea of adding a sponsorship page to the ACL-08 web site.  We thought that this page could list the kinds of sponsorship opportunities available but not specific prices, plus who to contact for more information.

So, the next step would seem to be to try to recover more of the ACL's institutional memory on sponsorhip. 

North American Report (message from Inderjeet to other chairs on joining):

I don't know what the sponsorship levels should be, but we should have bronze, silver, gold levels at least. We need some consensus/advice on what those amounts should be,

based on past ACL experience, and what those levels could buy (while retaining the independence of ACL). To start things off, here are some suggestions:

- logos on the web page - naming an event- a specific demo being advertised in the main conference- covering student travel- a best paper being sponsored- a set on some ACL committees for the longer run -- .. etc.

Comments?

I can think of some small-to-medium size players I could certainly approach. These include:

Attensity BBNInxightJanyaLanguage Computer CorpLanguageWeaverMITRESRAStreamSage

Of the big ones, I could ask:GoogleLockheed MartinIBMMicrosoft

Appendix 1: Full Details on Accepted Workshops

The accepted WS proposals1. David R. Traum, SIGDIAL, ACL08-SIGDIAL, traum@ict.usc.edu

2. Chris Callison-Burch, Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, ACL08-SMT, ccb@cs.jhu.edu

3. Dekai Wu, SSST-2: Second Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation, ACL08-SSST, dekai@cs.ust.hk

4. Kevin B. Cohen, Software engineering, testing, and quality assurance for natural language processing, ACL08-NLP-Software, kevin.cohen@gmail.com

5. Dina Demner-Fushman, BioNLP 2008, ACL08-BioNLP, ddemner@mail.nih.gov

6. Jeffrey Heinz, Jason Eisner, Computational Morphology and Phonology(SIGMORPHON), ACL08-SIGMORPHON, heinz@UDel.Edu

7. Barbara Rosario, Natural language processing and mobile devices, ACL08-Mobile-NLP, barbara.rosario@intel.com

8. Eneko Agirre, Semantic Evaluations: Recent Achievements and Future Directions, ACL08-Semantic-Evaluation, e.agirre@ehu.es

9. Martha Palmer,The Third Workshop on Issues in Teaching Computational Linguistics, ACL08-Teaching-CL, Martha.Palmer@colorado.edu

10. Joel Tetreault,The 4th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, ACL08-NLP-Education, JTetreault@ETS.ORG

11. Sandra Kuebler and Gerald Penn, Workshop on German Parsing, gpenn@cs.toronto.edu, skuebler@indiana.edu, ACL08-German-Parsing

Suggested allocation of date and room 19th 20th ACL08-SMT ACL08-SSSTACL08-NLP-Software ACL08-BioNLPACL08-SIGMORPHON ACL08-Mobile-NLPACL08-Semantic-EvaluationACL08-Teaching-CL Continue ACL08-NLP-Education ACL08-German-Parsing

Note: ACL08-SIGDIAL is not listed in the above. It should have special treatment.

The basic information of the workshopsID# Acronym Expected #

participants Expected # paper

Length (day)

Poster (Y/N)

Other requirements

1 ACL08-SIGDIAL ?2 ACL08-SMT 80-100

(refers to 2007)

15 1 Not known

Possibly extend to two days

3 ACL08-SSST 50 15 1 Not known

4 ACL08-NLP-Software

20 Not known 1 Not known

5 ACL08-BioNLP 70 Not known 1 Yes 6 ACL08-

SIGMORPHON35-50 Not known 1 Not

known7 ACL08-Mobile-

NLP30-45 Not known 1 Not

known8 ACL08-Semantic-

Evaluation60-80 Not Known 1 Yes

9 ACL08-Teaching-CL

40 Not known 2 Yes

10 ACL08-NLP-Education

50 Not known 1 Not known

11 ACL08-German-Parsing

20-30 20 submissions

1 Not known

The quick overview of reviewThere are 14 submissions of WS proposals from which we accepted 11 and rejected 3. An overview of each proposal and some of the key comments are summarized below for a quick glance. 1. David R. Traum, SIGDIALAccept. Already early approved; 2. Chris Callison-Burch , Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation Accept. Already early approved; One-day workshop, it is possible extend to two days if there are many presentations.  80 participants expected.

We would like to suggest this workshop is kept within one-day because some of the participants might want to attend another SMT workshop, i.e., WS  #3.

3. Dekai Wu, SSST-2: Second Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (reviewer: Ming)Accept. One-Day expected to include 10-15 papers, and one invited speaker. 50+ participants, second time to run this workshop, well organized PC with influential people, with good result last time, self supported budget;   4. Kevin B. Cohen,  Software engineering, testing, and quality assurance for natural language processing (reviewer: Chengxiang)Accept with revisionOne-Day workshop, with one invited speaker, 20 participants expected.

Review from Chengxiang:I like this proposal because it addresses issues highly relevant to virtually all serious NLP applications. But the proposal is too narrow. It says "the target audience is researchers interested in NLP software as software." So it's likely to have a very low attendance. The proposal can be revised to become a more attractive one by enlarging the scope to address all issues related to toolkits for NLP, including, e.g., standardization, reliability, testing, etc. This would help attract many NLP toolkit users as well as developers.

Additional review from Ming: Accept with some concerns on the attraction to participants. The estimated participants only 20-30 people. Although this is important topic for NLP, but not special to NLP. I suggest to add more interesting contents to this workshop, such as, how to build a large data system to support training, decoding, how to collect big volume of user logs in important NLP applications such as search engine, how to do testing and evaluation, how to build and share commonly used tools.

 5. Dina Demner-Fushman, BioNLP 2008 (Reviewer:  Chengxiang)Accept. One-Day workshop, with 70 participants, a keynote speech, papers, posters, strong organization team, good reputation in previous years, several time with ACL, no budget concerns. Biomedical domain is one of the most important application domains of NLP. Due to its high impact (on human health), this area will continue to grow. As an application of NLP, it provides unique opportunities to do in-depth NLP and also raises interesting new challenges. The organizers are quite experienced with running similar workshops, and past workshops were successful. 

6. Jeffrey Heinz, Jason Eisner, Computational Morphology and Phonology (SIGMORPHON)  (reviewer: Helen)Accept. 50+ participants, strong organization team, good reputation in previous years, several time with ACL, no budget concerns.  7. Floriana Grasso, THE 8TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF NATURAL ARGUMENTReject. One-Day workshop with 20 participants expected.

This has nothing to do with natural language processing. The estimated participants only 20 people. The area proposed in this proposal is not an important area to ACL and HLT.   8. Gaël Dias, Ubiquity and Context-Awareness in NLP Applications (UCAN 2008)  (Reviewer: Helen)Merge otherwise Reject. This has nothing to do with NLP applications. One-day workshop, estimated 60 participants, with talks, one invited speaker and poster session and a demo session. We suggest to merge with #10, Natural Language Processing and Mobile Devices 9. Irina Matveeva, , Textgraphs-3: Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing (Reviewer: Chengxiang)Reject. One day workshop, with an invited talk, short papers and long paper presentations. My main concern about this proposal is that the theme "graph" isn't really a coherent theme, so the need to bring together researchers that all use some kind of graph notion in their research isn't compelling. It's unlikely to help build any community. 10. Barbara Rosario, Natural language processing and mobile devices (Reviewer: Helen) Accept.One-Day workshop, expecting 30-45 participants, 2 invited talks, papers, and discussions. Important and hot topic, strong organization team. There seems to be strong commonality between #10 and #8 and we may consider combining the two. I like the program committee for workshop #10 because it has strong representation from academia and industry 11. Eneko Agirre, Semantic Evaluations: Recent Achievements and Future Directions (Reviewer: Chengxiang)Accept.One-day workshop, with an invited talk, paper, poster, panel discussionImportant and hot topic, with 50+ parcipants, strong organization team. This proposal is endorsed by SIGLEX. The SemEval-xx effort has been there for a while and has been quite helpful (in my opinion) for research in deep understanding of natural languages. So this is a natural continuation of their previous effort. 12. Martha Palmer,The Third Workshop on Issues in Teaching Computational Linguistics Accept.Two-day workshops, with 2 invited talks, paper presentations, posters and 2 panel discussions. Important and hot topic, with 50+ parcipants, strong organization team.  13 empty ID number, not used14. Joel Tetreault,The 4th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (Reviewer: Helen)Accept.

One-day workshop, with estimated 50 participants, not sure the format yet such as invited talk, paper or poster.Important and hot topic, strong organization team.

15. Workshop on German parsingAccepted. One day, with eight to ten talks of 30 minutes each, one invited lecture, and a panel discussion. About 30 participants expected.

Comments: Parsing is a key fundamental task of NLP, and German parsing raises many interesting research questions. So the topic is well-motivated. On the surface the workshop is a bit narrow because it's restricted to German, but because of the availability of German treebanks data sets, it could be attractive to many other researchers who work on parsing in general. The workshop appears to be very well planned -- the organizers have resolved the issue of availability of data sets, they've also got funding for supporting this workshop, and there seems to be already a community working on this. I think the workshop can potentially attract researchers working on applyng ML to NLP to increase the level of attendance. So it would be great if they can make it explicit that their data sets can potentially be useful to researchers who are interested in applying ML to parsing.

Appendix 2: Full list of ACL 08: HLT reviewers

Steven Abney (abney@umich.edu) Meni Adler (adlerm@cs.bgu.ac.il) Stergos Afantenos (stergos.afantenos@lif.univ-mrs.fr) Eugene Agichtein (eugene@mathcs.emory.edu) Eneko Agirre (e.agirre@ehu.es) Lars Ahrenberg (lah@ida.liu.se) Salah Ait-Mokhtar (salah.ait-mokhtar@xrce.xerox.com) Masami Akamine (masa.akamine@toshiba.co.jp) Murat Akbacak (murat@speech.sri.com) Jan Alexandersson (janal@dfki.de) Yasemin Altun (altun@tuebingen.mpg.de) Sophia Ananiadou (sophia.ananiadou@manchester.ac.uk) Elisabeth Andre (andre@informatik.uni-augsburg.de) Galen Andrew (galena@microsoft.com) Doug Appelt (appelt@AI.SRI.COM)

Masahiro Araki (araki@kit.jp) Levent Arslan (arslanle@boun.edu.tr) Masayuki Asahara (masayu-a@is.naist.jp) Nicholas Asher (nasher@mail.utexas.edu) Michaela Atterer (atterer@ling.uni-potsdam.de) Necip Fazil Ayan (nfa@speech.sri.com) Timothy Baldwin (tim@csse.unimelb.edu.au)

Srinivas Bangalore (srini@research.att.com) Michele Banko (banko@cs.washington.edu) Colin Bannard (colin.bannard@eva.mpg.de) Roy Bar-Haim (barhair@gmail.com) Marco Baroni (marco.baroni@unitn.it) Roberto Basili (basili@info.uniroma2.it) Ruda Baskaran (rudhbaskaran@yahoo.com) John Bateman (bateman@uni-bremen.de) Johnathan Baxter (jbaxter@panscient.com) Tilman Becker (Tilman.Becker@dfki.de) Anja Belz (A.S.Belz@brighton.ac.uk) José Benedí (jbenedi@dsic.upv.es) Paul Bennett (paul.n.bennett@microsoft.com) Sabine Bergler (bergler@cs.concordia.ca) Kay Berkling (kay@berkling.com) Yves Bestgen (yves.bestgen@psp.ucl.ac.be) Indrajit Bhattacharya (indrajit@cs.umd.edu) Tanmay Bhattacharya (tanmoy1@gmail.com) Chris Biemann (biem@informatik.uni-leipzig.de) Dan Bikel (dan@bikel.net) Mikhail Bilenko (mbilenko@microsoft.com) Jeff Bilmes (bilmes@ee.washington.edu) Philippe Blache (pb@lpl.univ-aix.fr) Alan Black (awb@cs.cmu.edu) Patrick Blackburn (patrick.blackburn@loria.fr) Sasha Blair-Goldensohn (sasha.blairgoldensohn@gmail.com) David Blei (blei@cs.princeton.edu) John Blitzer (blitzer@cis.upenn.edu) Philip Blunsom (pblunsom@inf.ed.ac.uk) Phil Blunsom (philblunsom@gmail.com) Gemma Boleda (gemma.boleda@gmail.com) Hynek Boril (borilh@gmail.com) Johan Bos (jbos@inf.ed.ac.uk) Pierre Boullier (pierre.boullier@inria.fr) Karl Branting (lbranting@mitre.org) Thorsten Brants (thorsten@brants.net) Eric Breck (ebreck@CS.Cornell.EDU) Chris Brew (cbrew@acm.org) Ted Briscoe (ejb@cl.cam.ac.uk) Chris Brockett (Chris.Brockett@microsoft.com) Ralf Brown (ralf+@cs.cmu.edu) Paul Buitelaar (paulb@dfki.de)

Harry Bunt (Harry.Bunt@uvt.nl) Razvan Bunescu (razvan@cs.ohio.edu) Stephan Busemann (stephan.busemann@dfki.de) Donna Byron (dbyron@cse.ohio-state.edu)

Aoife Cahill (cahillae@ims.uni-stuttgart.de) Charles Callaway (ccallawa@inf.ed.ac.uk) Chris Callison-Burch (ccb@cs.jhu.edu) Nicoletta Calzolari (nicoletta.calzolari@ilc.cnr.it) Nick Campbell (nick@atr.jp) Yunbo Cao (yunbo.cao@microsoft.com) Sandra Carberry (carberry@cis.udel.edu) Giuseppe Carenini (carenini@cs.ubc.ca)

Jean Carletta (jeanc@inf.ed.ac.uk) Xavier Carreras (carreras@csail.mit.edu) John Carroll (J.A.Carroll@sussex.ac.uk) Francisco Casacuberta (fcn@dsic.upv.es) Sasha Caskey (sasha@cs.columbia.edu) Justine Cassell (justine@northwestern.edu) Lawrence Cavedon (lcavedon@csse.unimelb.edu.au) Joyce Chai (jchai@cse.msu.edu) Yee Seng Chan (chanys@comp.nus.edu.sg) Raman Chandrasekar (raman.chandrasekar@microsoft.com) Jason Chang (jschang@cs.nthu.edu.tw) Eugene Charniak (ec@cs.brown.edu) Monojit Chaudhury (monojitc@microsoft.com) Ciprian Chelba (ciprianchelba@google.com) John Chen (jchen@janyainc.com) Hsin-Hsi Chen (hhchen@csie.ntu.edu.tw) Colin Cherry (colinc@microsoft.com) Christian Chiarcos (chiarcos@ling.uni-potsdam.de) Yejin Choi (ychoi@cs.cornell.edu) Min Chu (minchu@microsoft.com) Jennifer Chu-Carroll (jencc@us.ibm.com) Tat-Seng Chua (chuats@comp.nus.edu.sg) Ken Church (church@microsoft.com) Massimiliano Ciaramita (massi@yahoo-inc.com) Philip Cimiano (pci@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de)

Mark Clements (clements@ece.gatech.edu) Phil Cohen (Phil.Cohen@adapx.com) Ariel Cohen (arikc@bgumail.bgu.ac.il) Kevin Cohen (kevin.cohen@gmail.com) Trevor Cohn (tcohn@inf.ed.ac.uk) Michael Collins (mcollins@csail.mit.edu) Alistair Conkie (adc@research.att.com) John Conroy (conroy@super.org) Robin Cooper (cooper@ling.gu.se)

Mark Core (core@ict.usc.edu) Marta Costa-jussá (mruiz@talp.upc.edu) Koby Crammer (crammer@seas.upenn.edu) Mark Craven (craven@biostat.wisc.edu)

Josep Crego (jmcrego@gps.tsc.upc.edu) Silviu Cucerzan (silviu@microsoft.com) Hang Cui (hang.cui@gmail.com) Aron Culotta (culotta@cs.umass.edu) James Curran (james@it.usyd.edu.au) Walter Daelemans (Walter.Daelemans@ua.ac.be) Ido Dagan (dagan@cs.biu.ac.il)

Robert Dale (rdale@ics.mq.edu.au) Hoa Dang (hoa.dang@nist.gov) Hal Daume (me@hal3.name)

Maarten de Rijke (mdr@science.uva.nl) Eric de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr) Steve DeNeefe (sdeneefe@isi.edu) Vera Demberg (s0455377@sms.ed.ac.uk)

Yasuharu Den (den@cogsci.l.chiba-u.ac.jp) Yonggang Deng (ydeng@us.ibm.com) Ann Devitt (Ann.Devitt@cs.tcd.ie) Barbara di Eugenio (bdieugen@cs.uic.edu) Giuseppe DiFabbrizio (pino@research.att.com) Mona Diab (mdiab@cs.columbia.edu) Fernando Diaz (fdiaz@cs.umass.edu) Anne Diekema (diekemar@mailbox.syr.edu)

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