Senior Program Committee

Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics

SACs: David Bamman, Chenhao Tan
ACs: Dallas Card, Paramveer Dhillon, Lucie Flek, Kenny Joseph, David Mimno, Dong Nguyen, Brendan O’Connor, Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro, Sara Tonelli, Svetlana Volkova, Justine Zhang

Dialogue and Interactive Systems

SACs: Maxine Eskenazi, Kallirroi Georgila, Jiwei Li
ACs: Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Casey Kennington, Kazunori Komatani, Sungjin Lee, Pierre Lison, Jose David Lopes, Ramesh Manuvinakurike, Michael McTear, Alexandros Papangelis, Rebecca Passonneau, Gabriel Skantze, David Traum, Stefan Ultes, Nigel Ward, Jason Williams, Koichiro Yoshino, Kai Yu, Tiancheng Zhao

Discourse and Pragmatics

SACs: Giuseppe Carenini, Junyi (Jessy) Li
ACs: Malihe Alikhani, Shafiq Joty, Sujian Li, Annie Louis, Deyi Xiong

Ethics, Bias, and Fairness

SACs: Kai-Wei Chang
ACs: Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Rachel Rudinger

Green NLP

SACs: Roy Schwartz
ACs: Niranjan Balasubramanian, Emma Strubell

Language Generation

SACs: Asli Celikyilmaz, Nanyun Peng, Wei Xu
ACs: Antoine Bosselut, Greg Durrett, Claire Gardent, Iryna Gurevych, Srinivasan Iyer, Mohit Iyyer, Yangfeng Ji, Mirella Lapata, Mike Lewis, Ankur Parikh, Laura Perez-Beltrachini, Sudha Rao, Hannah Rashkin, Mark Riedl, John Wieting

Information Extraction

SACs: Heng Ji, Zornitsa Kozareva, William Wang
ACs: Gerard de Melo, Luciano Del Corro, Bhuwan Dhingra, Ruihong Huang, Lifu Huang, Arzoo Katiyar, Ni Lao, Yi Luan, Ndapa Nakashole, Vincent Ng, Thien Huu Nguyen, Qiang Ning, Sujith Ravi, Siliang Tang, Derrry Tanti Wijaya, Bishan Yang, Dian Yu, Sheng Zhang

Information Retrieval and Text Mining

SACs: Eugene Agichtein, Alessandro Moschitti
ACs: Qingyao Ai, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Simone Filice, Karthik Raman, Oleg Rokhlenko, Luca Soldaini, Yi Tay, Olga Uryupina, Thuy Vu, Hamed Zamani

Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP

SACs: Yonatan Belinkov, Grzegorz Chrupala, Anders Søgaard
ACs: Jasmijn Bastings, Allyson Ettinger, Katja Filippova, Antske Fokkens, Dieuwke Hupkes, Hung-yi Lee, Zachary Lipton, Lilja Øvrelid, Anna Rogers, Benjamin Roth, Hassan Sajjad, Wojciech Samek, Ian Tenney, Xin (Eric) Wang, Willem Zuidema

Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond

SACs: Jason Baldridge, Mohit Bansal
ACs: Aishwarya Agrawal, Joyce Chai, Spandana Gella, David Harwath, Lisa Anne Hendricks, Angeliki Lazaridou, Karthik Narasimhan, Jesse Thomason, Mark Yatskar

Language Resources and Evaluation

SACs: Sam Bowman, Matt Gardner
ACs: Pradeep Dasigi, Kyle Gorman, Joakim Nivre, Saku Sugawara, Alane Suhr, Reut Tsarfaty, Aaron White, Adina Williams

Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics

SACs: William Schuler
ACs: Richard Futrell, Kasia Hitczenko, Emily Prud’hommeaux, Marten van Schijndel

Machine Learning for NLP: Classification and Structured Prediction Models

SACs: Alan Ritter, Sasha Rush, Vivek Srikumar
ACs: Yoav Artzi, Isabelle Augenstein, Mathieu Blondel, Shay Cohen, Caio Corro, Dan Goldwasser, Yoon Kim, Lingpeng Kong, Paul Michel, Lili Mou, Vlad Niculae, Gabriel Stanovsky, Karl Stratos, Swabha Swayamdipta

Machine Learning for NLP: Language Modeling and Sequence to Sequence Models

SACs: Kevin Gimpel, Omer Levy
ACs: Roee Aharoni, Michael Auli, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Li Dong, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Andre Martins, Matthew Peters, Colin Raffel, Rico Sennrich, Lei Yu

Machine Translation

SACs: George Foster, Maja Popović, Matt Post
ACs: Antonis Anastasopoulos, Eleftherios Avramidis, Michael Denkowski, Mark Fishel, Alexander Fraser, Markus Freitag, Yvette Graham, Paco Guzmán, Christian Hardmeier, Carolina Scarton, Dimitar Shterionov, Michel Simard, Marco Turchi, Eva Vanmassenhove, David Vilar, Rui Wang

Multilinguality

SACs: Manaal Faruqui, Radu Florian
ACs: Marine Carpuat, Orhan Firat, Dan Garrette, Katharina Kann, Sara Rosenthal, Sakriani Sakti, Ves Stoyanov, Shyam Upadhyay, Zhiguo Wang, Imed Zitouni

NLP Applications

SACs: Yun-Nung Vivian Chen, Jing Huang, Nitin Madnani, Byron Wallace,
ACs: Andrew O. Arnold, Aoife Cahill, Chris Donahue, Vivek Kulkarni, Rohit Kumar, Cheng-Te Li, Yang Liu, Tristan Naumann, Hoifung Poon, Peng Qi, Nazneen Fatema Rajani, Vikram Ramanarayanan, Kevin Small, Gokhan Tur, Sowmya Vajjala, Karin Verspoor, Guangtao Wang, Youzheng Wu, Bing Xiang, Pengtao Xie, Helen Yannakoudakis, Torsten Zesch, Yuhao Zhang

Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation

SACs: Ryan Cotterell
ACs: Xuanjing Huang, Francis Tyers, Ekaterina Vylomova

Question Answering

SACs: Danqi Chen, Hannaneh Hajishirzi
ACs: Jonathan Berant, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Kyunghyun Cho, Eunsol Choi, Nan Duan, Kelvin Guu, Robin Jia, Daniel Khashabi, Tushar Khot, Jimmy Lin, Xiang Ren, Minjoon Seo, Pontus Stenetorp, Huan Sun

Semantics: Lexical Semantics

SACs: Ivan Vulić
ACs: Goran Glavaš, Taher Pilehvar, Roi Reichart, Steven Schockaert, Ekaterina Shutova, Aline Villavicencio

Semantics: Sentence-level Semantics and Textual Inference

SACs: Daniel Cer, Douwe Kiela, Wenpeng Yin
ACs: Heike Adel, Roy Bar-Haim, Iz Beltagy, Eduardo Blanco, Shiyu Chang, Daniel Hershcovich, Adam Poliak, Christopher G. Potts, Siva Reddy, Marek Rei, German Rigau, Cicero Nogueira dos Santos, Yangqiu Song, Yinfei Yang, Mo Yu

Sentiment Analysis and Stylistic Analysis

SACs: Preslav Nakov, Diyi Yang
ACs: Tanmoy Chakraborty, Lun-Wei Ku, Soujanya Poria, Paolo Rosso, Thamar Solorio, Aixin Sun, Arkaitz Zubiaga, Yulan He, Roman Klinger

Speech

SAC: Eric Fosler-Lussier
ACs: Erica Cooper, Yao Qian, Yuxuan Wang

Summarization

SACs: Michael Elhadad, Yue Zhang
ACs: Arman Cohan, Sebastian Gehrmann, Logan Lebanoff, Fei Liu, Pengfei Liu, Shashi Narayan, Manabu Okumura, Xiaojun Wan, Rui Zhang

Syntax: Tagging, Chunking, and Parsing

SAC: Kenji Sagae
ACs: Marco Kuhlmann, Miryam de Lhoneux, Jennifer Foster, David Chiang, Weiwei Sun, Miguel Ballesteros

Special Theme: New Challenges in NLP

SAC: Kenneth Church
ACs: Chris Callison-Burch, Valia Kordoni, Sabine Schulte im Walde, Costanza Navarretta

Conflict of Interest (COI)

SAC: Graham Neubig
ACs: Monoji Choudhury, Anna Korhonen, Wei Lu, Kathy McKeown, Noah A. Smith