Committee

Organising Committee

General Chair

• Claire Cardie, Cornell University

Program Chairs

• Iryna Gurevych, TU Darmstadt
• Yusuke Miyao, National Institute of Informatics

Workshop Chairs

• Brendan O’Connor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Eva Maria Vecchi, University of Cambridge

Tutorial Chairs

• Yoav Artzi, Cornell University
• Jacob Eisenstein, Georgia Institute of Technology

Demo Chairs

• Fei Liu, University of Central Florida
• Thamar Solorio, University of Houston

Publications Chairs

• Shay Cohen, University of Edinburgh
• Kevin Gimpel, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
• Wei Lu, Singapore University of Technology and Design (Advisory)

Exhibits Coordinator

• Karin Verspoor, University of Melbourne

Conference Handbook Chairs

• Jey Han Lau, IBM Research
• Trevor Cohn, University of Melbourne

Publicity Chair

• Sarvnaz Karimi, CSIRO

Local Sponsorship Chair

• Cecile Paris, CSIRO

Local Chairs

• Tim Baldwin, University of Melbourne
• Karin Verspoor, University of Melbourne
• Trevor Cohn, University of Melbourne

Student Research Workshop Organisers

• Vered Shwartz, Bar-Ilan University
• Jeniya Tabassum, Ohio State University
• Rob Voigt, Stanford University

Faculty Advisors to the Student Research Workshop

• Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Ohio State
• Wanxiang Che, Harbin Institute of Technology
• Malvina Nissim, University of Groningen

Webmaster

• Andrew MacKinlay (acl2018web@gmail.com), Culture Amp

Area Chairs

• Dialogue and Interactive Systems:
  • Asli Celikyilmaz
    Senior Chair
  • Verena Rieser
  • Milica Gasic
  • Jason Williams
• Discourse and Pragmatics:
  • Manfred Stede
  • Ani Nenkova
    Senior Chair
• Document Analysis:
  • Hang Li
    Senior Chair
  • Yiqun Liu
  • Eugene Agichtein
• Generation:
  • Ioannis Konstas
  • Claire Gardent
    Senior Chair
• Information Extraction and Text Mining:
  • Feiyu Xu
  • Kevin Cohen
  • Zhiyuan Liu
  • Ralph Grishman
    Senior Chair
  • Yi Yang
  • Nazli Goharian
• Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics:
  • Shuly Wintner
    Senior Chair
  • Tim O'Donnell
    Senior Chair
• Machine Learning:
  • Andre Martins
  • Ariadna Quattoni
  • Jun Suzuki
    Senior Chair
• Machine Translation:
  • Yang Liu
  • Matt Post
    Senior Chair
  • Lucia Specia
  • Dekai Wu
• Multidisciplinary (also for AC COI):
  • Yoav Goldberg
  • Anders Søgaard
  • Mirella Lapata
• Multilinguality:
  • Bernardo Magnini
    Senior Chair
  • Tristan Miller
• Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation:
  • Graham Neubig
  • Hai Zhao
    Senior Chair
• Question Answering:
  • Lluís Màrquez
    Senior Chair
  • Teruko Mitamura
  • Zornitsa Kozareva
  • Richard Socher
• Resources and Evaluation:
  • Gerard de Melo
  • Sara Tonelli
  • Karën Fort
    Senior Chair
• Sentence-level Semantics:
  • Luke Zettlemoyer
    Senior Chair
  • Ellie Pavlick
  • Jacob Uszkoreit
• Sentiment Analysis and Argument Mining:
  • Smaranda Muresan
  • Benno Stein
  • Yulan He
    Senior Chair
• Social Media:
  • David Jurgens
  • Jing Jiang
    Senior Chair
• Summarization:
  • Kathleen McKeown
    Senior Chair
  • Xiaodan Zhu
• Tagging, Chunking, Syntax and Parsing:
  • Liang Huang
    Senior Chair
  • Weiwei Sun
  • Željko Agić
  • Yue Zhang
• Textual Inference and Other Areas of Semantics:
  • Michael Roth
    Senior Chair
  • Fabio Massimo Zanzotto
    Senior Chair
• Vision, Robotics, Multimodal, Grounding and Speech:
  • Yoav Artzi
    Senior Chair
  • Shinji Watanabe
  • Timothy Hospedales
• Word-level Semantics:
  • Ekaterina Shutova
  • Roberto Navigli
    Senior Chair