People

General chair

naacl2015@googlegroups.com

• Rada Mihalcea, University of Michigan, USA

Local arrangements chair

acl@aclweb.org

• Priscilla Rasmussen, ACL Business Manager

Program co-chairs

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• Joyce Chai, Michigan State University, USA
• Anoop Sarkar, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Workshop co-chairs

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• Cornelia Caragea, University of North Texas, USA
• Bing Liu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Tutorial co-chairs

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• Yang Liu, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
• Thamar Solorio, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

Student research workshop co-chairs

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Student co-chairs

• Shibamouli Lahiri, University of Michigan, USA
• Karen Mazidi, University of North Texas, USA
• Alisa Zhila, Instituto Politécnico Nacional (National Polytechnic Institute), Mexico

Faculty advisors

• Diana Inkpen, University of Ottawa, Canada
• Smaranda Muresan, Columbia University, USA

Demo co-chairs

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• Matt Gerber, University of Virginia, USA
• Catherine Havasi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• Finley Lacatusu, Language Computer Corporation, USA

Student volunteer coordinator

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• Annie Louis, University of Edinburgh, UK

Local sponsorship chair

• Kevin B. Cohen, University of Colorado, USA

Publicity chair

• Saif M. Mohammad, National Research Council Canada

Publication co-chairs

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• Matt Post, John Hopkins University, USA
• Adam Lopez, University of Edinburgh, UK

Website chair

naacl2015-webmaster@googlegroups.com

• Peter Ljunglöf, University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Reviewing Coordinators

• Mark Dredze, Johns Hopkins University
• Jiang Guo, Harbin Institute of Technology

Best Paper Award Committee

• Clare Cardie
• Daniel Gildea
• Daniel Marcu
• Fernando Pereira

Area chairs

Dialogue and Interactive Systems

• Jason D. Williams, Microsoft Research

Discourse and Pragmatics

• Vincent Ng, University of Texas at Dallas
• Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania

Generation and Summarization

• Fei Liu, Carnegie Mellon University
• Chris Callison-Burch, University of Pennsylvania

Information Extraction and Question Answering

• Bowen Zhou, IBM Research
• Alan Ritter, The Ohio State University

Information Retrieval

• David Smith, Northeastern University

Language and Vision

• Julia Hockenmaier, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Language Resources and Evaluation

• Will Lewis, Microsoft Research
• Sameer Pradhan, Harvard University

Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Aspects of CL

• William Schuler, The Ohio State University

Machine Learning for NLP

• Tong Zhang, Baidu Inc. and Rutgers University
• Amarnag Subramanya, Google Research

Machine Translation

• Kevin Knight, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
• Hany Hassan, Microsoft Research
• Bill Byrne, Cambridge University
• Haitao Mi, IBM Research

NLP for Web, Social Media and Social Sciences

• Brendan O’Connor, University of Massachusetts
• Philip Resnik, University of Maryland

NLP-enabled Technology

• Richard Socher, Stanford University

Phonology, Morphology, and Word Segmentation

• Sami Virpioja, Lingsoft and Aalto University

Semantics

• William Dolan, Microsoft Research
• Dipanjan Das, Google
• Luke Zettlemoyer, University of Washington

Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining

• Jerry Zhu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Saif M. Mohammad, National Research Council Canada

Spoken Language Processing

• Xiaodong He, Microsoft Research

Tagging, Chunking, Syntax, and Parsing

• Noah Smith, Carnegie Mellon University
• Yue Zhang, Singapore University of Technology and Design

Text Categorization and Topic Models

• Jordan Boyd-Graber, University of Colorado at Boulder
• David Mimno, Cornell University

All the Reviewers