Applications involving LRs and Evaluation (including applications in specific domains)
- Axel Ngonga, Paderborn University, Paderborn, Germany
- Ivandré Paraboni, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Paul Rodrigues, Accenture, Washington (DC), USA & University of Maryland, College Park (MD), USA
- Karin Verspoor, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Corpora and Annotation (including Tools, Systems, Treebanks)
- Masayuki Asahara, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tolyo, Japan
- Darja Fišer, University of Ljubljana and Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Monica Monachini, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "Antonio Zampolli", Pisa, Italy
- Djamé Seddah, Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France
Dialogue, Conversational Systems, Chatbots, Human-Robot Interaction
- Kristiina Jokinen, AI Research Center AIST / University of Helsinki, Tokyo, Japan
- Sophie Rosset, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, Orsay, France
- Jianhua Tao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage
- Antske Fokkens, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Sara Tonelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy
- Andreas Witt, Universität zu Köln, Köln, Germany
Discourse and Pragmatics
- Mikel Iruskieta, University of the Basque Country, Donostia, Spain
- Leila Kosseim, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
- Deniz Zeyrek, Middle East Technical University, Graduate School of Informatics, Cognitive Science Department, Ankara, Turkey
Evaluation and Validation Methodologies
- Nicola Ferro, Department of Information Engineering - University of Padua, Padua, Italy
- Constantin Orăsan, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
- Marcos Zampieri, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester (NY), USA
Information Extraction and Information Retrieval (including NER, QA, Text Mining, Document Classification, Text Categorisation)
- Wenliang Chen, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
- Yakov Kronrod, Spotify, Florence (MA), USA
- Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politècnica de València, València, Spain
Knowledge Discovery/Representation (including Knowledge Graphs, Linked Data, Terminology, Ontologies)
- Dagmar Gromann, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- German Rigau, HiTZ, Basque Center for Language Technology. University of the Basque Country, Donostia / San Sebastián, Spain
- Han Xianpei, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Language Resources and Evaluation for Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Linguistics and Linguistic Theories
- Vera Demberg, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
- Dimitrios Kokkinakis, Department of Swedish (Språkbanken Text) & the Centre for Ageing and Health (AgeCap), Gothenburg, Sweden
- Dimitris N. Metaxas, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway (NJ), USA
Language Resource Infrastructures, Standards for LRs, Metadata, Policy issues, Ethics, Legal Issues
- Gilles Adda, LISN-CNRS, Orsay, Francer
- Franciska de Jong, CLARIN ERIC, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Denise Di Persio, Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
- Georg Rehm, German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Berlin, Germany
Less Resourced/Endangered Languages
- Antti Arppe, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
- Kalika Bali, Microsoft Research Labs, Bangalore, India
- Claudia Soria, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "Antonio Zampolli", Pisa, Italy
Lexicons (also WordNet, FrameNet, Multimodal and Sign Language lexicons, etc.)
- Simon Krek, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Bolette Sandford Pedersen, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Gilles Sérasset, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
Multilinguality and Machine Translation (including Speech-to Speech translation)
- Maite Melero, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain
- Toshiaki Nakazawa, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Maja Popovic, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
Multimodality and Cross-modality (including Sign Languages, Vision and other modalities) and Multimedia
- Eleni Efthimiou, Athena RC, Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP), Department of Embodied Interaction and Robotics, Athens, Greece
- Costanza Navarretta, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Veronica Perez-Rosas, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI) USA
Natural Language Generation (including Summarization)
- Naoaki Okazaki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
- Horacio Saggion, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
- Yaji Sripada, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Opinion Mining, Sentiment Analysis, Emotion Recognition/Generation
- Rodrigo Agerri, HiTZ Center - Ixa, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
- Viviana Patti, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
- Theresa A. Wilson, Hanover College, Hanover (IN), USA
Parsing, Tagging, Grammar, Syntax, Morphology
- Tetsuji Nakagawa, Google Research, Tokyo, Japan
- Xipeng Qiu, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- Francis Tyers, Indiana University, Bloomington (IN), USA
Reproduction of Research Results in Science and Technology of Language
- Anya Belz, ADAPT/DCU, Dublin, Ireland
- Antonio Branco, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
- Piek Vossen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Semantics (including Distributional Semantics, Word Sense Disambiguation, Coreference, etc.)
- Eduardo Blanco, Arizona State University, Tempe (AZ), USA
- Nancy Ide, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie (NY), USA & Brandeis University, Waltham (MA), USA
- Roberto Navigli, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Social Media Processing
- Núria Bel, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
- Kentaro Inui, Tohoku University / RIKEN, Sendai, Japan
- Alexandre Pauchet, Normandie University, INSA Rouen, LITIS, Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, France
Speech Resources and Processing (including Phonetic Databases, Phonology, Prosody)
- Ahmed Ali, Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), Doha, Qatar
- Sanjeev Khudanpur, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Sakti Sakriani, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Nomi, Ishikawa, Japan
Statistical Methods and Machine Learning for Language Technologies (including Language Models)
- Felice Dell'Orletta, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "Antonio Zampolli", Pisa, Italy
- Vincent Ng, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson (TX), USA
- Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy