Conference Organization

The NAACL HLT 2018 conference is organized by the committees listed below.

General Chair
Contact:

Marilyn Walker

University of California, Santa Cruz

Program Co-Chairs
Direct questions about reviewing and selection of the conference program here
Contact:

Heng Ji

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Amanda Stent

Bloomberg

Workshop Co-Chairs
Contact:

Marie Meteer

Brandeis University

Jason Williams

Microsoft Research

Tutorial Co-Chairs
Contact:

Mohit Bansal

University of North Carolina

Rebecca Passonneau

Pennsylvania State University

Industry Track Co-Chairs
Contact:

Srinivas Bangalore

Interactions

Jennifer Chu-Carroll

Elemental Cognition

Yunyao Li

IBM

Demonstration Co-Chairs
Contact:

Yang Liu

University of Texas at Dallas

Tim Paek

Apple

Manasi Patwardhan

Tata Consultancy Services Research, India

Publications Co-Chairs
Contact:

Stephanie Lukin

Army Research Laboratory, Santa Monica

Meg Mitchell

Google

Family-Friendly Program Co-Chairs
Contact:

Chris Callison-Burch

University of Pennsylvania

Beth Hockey

Intel

Local Sponsorships and Exhibits Chairs
Contact:

Kristy Hollingshead

Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition

Kristen Johnson

Purdue University

Parisa Kordjamshidi

Tulane University

Local Arrangements Chair
Have a question about the conference venue, accommodations, or other questions about the New Orleans area?
Contact:

Priscilla Rasmussen

Student Research Workshop Co-Chairs
Contact:

Silvio Ricardo Cordeiro

Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

Shereen Oraby

University of California, Santa Cruz

Umashanthi Pavalanathan

Georgia Institute of Technology

Kyeongmin Rim

Brandeis University

Swapna Somasundaran (Faculty Advisor)

ETS Princeton

Sam Bowman (Faculty Advisor)

New York University

Publicity & Social Media Chairs
Contact:

Yonatan Bisk

University of Washington

Wei Xu

Ohio State University

Website Chair
Contact:

Ying Lin

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Student Volunteer Coordinator
Contact:

Lena Reed

University of California, Santa Cruz

Area Chairs

Cognitive Modeling/Psycholinguistics:

Morteza Dehghani
University of Southern California Kristy Hollingshead Seitz
Institute for Human & Machine Cognition

Dialogue and Interactive Systems:

Yun-Nung (Vivian) Chen
National Taiwan University Gabriel Skantze
KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Discourse and Pragmatics:

Jacob Eisenstein
Georgia Institute of Technology Junyi (Jessy) Li
University of Texas at Austin Annie Louis
University of Edinburgh Yi Yang
Bloomberg LP

Generation:

Dimitra Gkatzia
Edinburgh Napier University Shashi Narayan
University of Edinburgh Michael White
Ohio State University

Information Extraction:

Mausam
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Dan Bikel
Google Chia-Hui Chang
National Central University Bonan Min
BBN Aurélie Névéol
CNRS Marius Pasca
Google Hinrich Schütze
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Avirup Sil
IBM Research AI Michael Strube
HITS gGmbH

Machine Learning for NLP:

Chris Dyer
Google DeepMind Ozan Irsoy
Cornell University Tie-Yan Liu
Microsoft Research Raymond Mooney
University of Texas at Austin

Machine Translation:

Marine Carpuat
University of Maryland Kyunghyun Cho
New York University Daniel Marcu
Amazon Taro Watanabe
Google Deyi Xiong
Soochow University

NLP Applications:

Jinho Choi
 Joel Tetreault
Grammarly

Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation:

Jennifer Foster
Dublin City University Barbara Plank
University of Groningen

Question Answering:

Eugene Agichtein
Emory University Hannaneh Hajishirzi
University of Washington Idan Szpektor
Google

Semantics:

Yoav Artzi
Cornell University Mona Diab
George Washington University Kevin Duh
Johns Hopkins University Jonathan May
University of Southern California Preslav Nakov
Qatar Computing Research Institute Roi Reichart
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Dan Roth
University of Pennsylvania Scott Wen-tau Yih
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence

Sentiment Analysis:

Smaranda Muresan
Columbia University Swapna Somasundaran
ETS Princeton

Social Media Analysis and Computational Social Science:

Mark Dredze
Johns Hopkins University Miles Osborne
Bloomberg Alan Ritter
Ohio State University Sara Rosenthal
IBM William Yang Wang
University of California, Santa Barbara

Speech:

Eric Fosler-Lussier
Ohio State University Dilek Hakkani-Tur
Google Mari Ostendorf
University of Washington

Summarization:

George Giannakopoulos
NCSR "Demokritos" Xiaojun Wan
Peking University Lu Wang
Northeastern University

Tagging, Chunking, Syntax and Parsing:

Michael Collins
Columbia University Yoav Goldberg
Bar Ilan University Daisuke Kawahara
Kyoto University Emily Pitler
Google Anders Søgaard
University of Copenhagen Aline Villavicencio
University of Essex (UK) and Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)

Text Mining:

Kai-wei Chang
University of Virginia Jing Jiang
Singapore Management University Zornitsa Kozareva
Google Chin-Yew Lin
Microsoft Research Asia

Theory and Formalisms:

David Chiang
University of Notre Dame Daniel Gildea
University of Rochester Giorgio Satta
University of Padua

Vision, Robotics and Other Grounding:

Joyce Chai
Michigan State University Vicente Ordonez
University of Virginia