Jekyll2019-06-23T17:57:45+00:00/feed.xmlNAACL-HLT 2019Official website for the 2019 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language TechnologiesYour NameDigital & Collaborative Conference Materials2019-06-20T00:00:00+00:002019-06-20T00:00:00+00:00/blog/digital-and-collaborative-materials<p>After a successful NAACL 2019, I wanted to take some time to reflect on three important components of the conference-attending experience: the conference website, the conference handbook, and – more recently – the conference app. Having served as the website & app chair for <a href="http://acl2017.org">ACL 2017</a>, <a href="https://emnlp2018.org">EMNLP 2018</a>, and now <a href="">NAACL 2019</a>, I wanted to share some thoughts and (personal) opinions and, hopefully, stimulate some discussion.</p>
<h3 id="website">Website</h3>
<p>The conference website is generally ready months before the conference and is constantly updated to communicate crucial logistical and program-related information in the intervening period and during the conference itself. In short, conference websites are primarily information-driven and should not require a redesign every year. Re-using the same design (with appropriate cosmetic changes) is low-maintenance and does not force users to learn new navigational structures. I have tried to follow this practice for the conferences I have been involved in and am pleased to see that it is being continued by the <a href="https://www.emnlp-ijcnlp2019.org">EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019</a> and the <a href="https://acl2020.org">ACL 2020</a> website chairs.</p>
<p>An important requirement for re-use is that work done by previous website chairs is well-documented and freely available to fork and adapt. In my opinion, the best way to accomplish this is to use GitHub along with its <a href="https://pages.github.com">Pages</a> service. The NAACL 2019 website does this, with all of its code and content <a href="https://github.com/naacl-org/naacl-hlt-2019">entirely open-sourced</a> and extensively documented.</p>
<p>Another important feature of the website is the <a href="/schedule">detailed conference schedule</a>. The NAACL 2019 website uses a responsive, JavaScript-powered schedule page that allows users to not only easily browse the sessions/talks/posters they might be interested in but also select them and generate a PDF of their own customized schedule. Like the rest of the website, the JavaScript schedule code is also <a href="https://github.com/naacl-org/naacl-hlt-2019/blob/gh-pages/assets/js/schedule.js">open-sourced</a> to promote collaboration and reuse.</p>
<h3 id="app">App</h3>
<p>The NAACL 2019 conference app is based on the <a href="https://whova.com">Whova</a> event management system and judging by what I have heard so far, it was a resounding success. There is also some quantitative information on which to base this impression of the app: <a href="/downloads/whova-app-report.pdf">this report</a> from Whova about app engagement shows that almost 1500 people downloaded (and, hopefully, used) the app. It also confirms that the Whova social features (community discussion board, direct messaging, easy 1-on-1 meeting scheduling, streamlined exchanging of contact information, etc.) played a very big part in the app’s success. We had ~3000 direct messages, ~2500 messages on the community board, and ~600 active participants in community discussions, among other impressive figures.</p>
<p>Since the app was built almost entirely inside the Whova EMS portal, there isn’t much code to share but there’s still a <a href="https://github.com/naacl-org/naacl-app-2019">repository</a> with detailed documentation on how to set up various aspects of the app inside the Whova portal.</p>
<p>Like the website, one of the most popular features in the app was the “Agenda” tab which allowed attendees to search and browse sessions and to create customized schedules – almost a 1000 attendees seem to have taken advantage of this feature. What I consider to be an important accomplishment this year is that <em>both</em> the website schedule and the app agenda were generated from a <em>single source</em> and entirely programmatically. This was accomplished with code that parses *ACL-style conference schedule files into an abstract representation and then using that code as a git submodule inside the website and the app repositories. As you might have guessed by now, this parsing code is also entirely <a href="https://github.com/naacl-org/naacl-schedule-2019">open-sourced</a> and has extensive documentation.</p>
<h3 id="handbook">Handbook</h3>
<p>My remit for NAACL 2019 did not include the printed handbook. Steve DeNeefe took up that challenge and did a great job despite the strict timing constraints and numerous technical and organizational challenges. My thinking on the handbook is the following: I think it’s time to end the practice of giving a full printed handbook to every *ACL attendee. Here’s my reasoning:</p>
<ol>
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<p>Handbooks tend to have a lot of pages (the NAACL one had 305!) – that’s a <em>lot</em> of wasted paper after the conference is over.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>For a majority of attendees, the combination of the conference app and the website provides almost all of the functionality of the handbook.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Folks who really want a printed schedule can print out the customized schedule PDF from the website.</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p>Note that I am not advocating for the abolition of the conference handbook. We can still produce a PDF version, share it on the website a few weeks before the conference, and allow those who really want it to print (parts of) it out themselves. Another option is to only produce a limited number of hard-copies and offer them as additional items for purchase – on a first-come-first-served basis – during registration.</p>
<h3 id="summary">Summary</h3>
<p>I hope I have made the case for a future where we waste as little of any precious resource as possible when creating our conference materials – whether that resource be the paper used for printing handbooks or the time spent on creating a website or an app from scratch.</p>
<p>If you have any thoughts about about this blog post or about the website & app for NAACL 2019, please feel free to contact me directly. I also strongly encourage you to fill out the <a href="https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=DQSIkWdsW0yxEjajBLZtrQAAAAAAAAAAAAN__iHODedURTgxQkU5VUs3M1JYSUVZVzZXVUhRTUFITy4u">post-conference survey</a> that was just posted!</p>
<p>I want to end this post by thanking the publication chairs, the handbook chair, the program chairs, and the general chair for all of their amazing help and support during my NAACL 2019 tenure.</p>Nitin Madnanihttps://desilinguist.orgSome thoughts on the the NAACL 2019 conference materials (website, handbook, and app).Industry track: In its second year2019-05-30T00:00:00+00:002019-05-30T00:00:00+00:00/blog/industry-track-vol2<p>NAACL-HLT 2019 once again features the Industry Track that was started <a href="http://naacl2018.org/chairs%20blog/2017/12/01/greetings-from-the-industry-track.html">last year</a>. The goal of the industry track is to provide a forum for researchers, engineers and application developers to exchange ideas, share results and discuss use cases of successful deployment of language technologies in real-world settings.</p>
<h3 id="industry-track-program">Industry track program</h3>
<p>This year, the industry track program consists of three paper presentation sessions (two oral and one poster session) as well as a plenary panel discussion on Careers in NLP:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="/program/careerspanel/">Careers in NLP</a> panel discussion on Monday, June 3, 13:00-14:30</li>
<li><a href="/schedule/#session-4e">4E: Real-world challenges</a> on Tuesday, June 4, 9:00-10:30</li>
<li><a href="/schedule/#session-6e">6E: Deployed systems</a> on Tuesday, June 4, 15:30-17:00</li>
<li><a href="/schedule/#session-poster-9">9F: Industry posters</a> on Wednesday, June 5, 15:30-16:30</li>
</ul>
<p>We invite all NAACL participants to attend the Industry Track sessions to meet new faces, to find out what works and what doesn’t in real-life applications, and to learn about the problems you never knew existed: may be you will be the one to solve these!</p>
<h3 id="industry-track-in-numbers">Industry track in numbers</h3>
<ul>
<li>18% increase in <a href="/blog/submission-info/">submissions</a></li>
<li>A remarkable increase in papers that were co-authored by researchers in academia and industry labs: 48 submitted papers fell into this category (48% vs. 29% in <a href="https://naacl2018.wordpress.com/2018/03/19/submissions-to-the-industry-track/">2018</a>)</li>
<li>Acceptance rate: 28%</li>
<li>For 22 out of 28 accepted papers more than 2 reviewers indicated that the paper highlights the need for industry track</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="program-committee">Program committee</h3>
<p>Last but not least we want to recognize and thank the program committee for generously volunteering their time to provide feedback to all authors and help us put together this year’s industry track program:</p>
<p>Nitin Agarwal, Sachin Agarwal, Hua Ai, Alan Akbik, Miguel Ballesteros, Nikoletta Basiou, Frederic Bechet, Trung Bui, Donna Byron, Vitor Carvalho, Francisco Casacuberta, Praveen Chandar, Sourish Chaudhuri, Ciprian Chelba, Wei Chen, John Chen, Laura Chiticariu, Justin Chiu, Brooke Cowan, Deborah Dahl, Lingjia Deng, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Matthew Dunn, Keelan Evanini, Oliver Ferschke, Michael Flor, Rashmi Gangadharaiah, Anna Lisa Gentile, Rahul Goel, Anuj Goyal, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Sanjika Hewavitharana, Derrick Higgins, Lynette Hirschman, Yufang Hou, Javid Huseynov, Rahul Jha, Mahesh Joshi, Adi Kalyanpur, Kartikay Khandelwal, Saurabh Khanwalkar, Doo Soon Kim, Sun Kim, Jared Kramer, Sanjeev Kumar, Gakuto Kurata, Constantine Lignos, Bing Liu, Alexander Loeser, Xiaoqiang Luo, Nitin Madnani, Arindam Mandal, Yuji Matsumoto, Florian Metze, Lisa Michaud, Isabelle Moulinier, Matthew Mulholland, Udhyakumar Nallasamy, Elnaz Nouri, Mari Olsen, Stefano Pacifico, Aasish Pappu, Youngja Park, Ioannis Partalas, Siddharth Patwardhan, Alexandros Potamianos, John Prager, Rashmi Prasad, Long Qin, Elio Querze, Owen Rambow, Meghana Ravikumar, Sravana Reddy, Ehud Reiter, Steve Renals, Giuseppe Riccardi, Brian Riordan, Salim Roukos, Nicholas Ruiz, Alicia Sagae, Avneesh Saluja, Stefan Scherer, Frank Schilder, Frank Seide, Ethan Selfridge, Rushin Shah, Michal Shmueli-Scheuer, Sunayana Sitaram, Kazoo Sone, Biplav Srivastava, Svetlana Stoyanchev, David Suendermann-Oeft, Isabel Trancoso, Keith Trnka, Ling Tsou, Gokhan Tur, Ngoc Phuoc An Vo, Xinhao Wang, Yi-Chia Wang, Jason D Williams.</p>Industry Track Co-Chairsnaacl-2019-industry-track@googlegroups.comWelcome to 2019 NAACL-HLT Industry TrackCaring for the Caregivers at NAACL 20192019-05-02T00:00:00+00:002019-05-02T00:00:00+00:00/blog/childcare-and-parental-inclusion<p>To foster inclusion of caregivers and families at NAACL, the Diversity and Inclusion Committee has embarked on several initiatives to provide support for conference attendees who are balancing professional and family commitments.
We recognize that different families have different childcare needs. This year, you can apply for a subsidy from NAACL to offset the additional childcare costs associated with bringing your children with you or with being away from home overnight. The subsidy can be used to compensate a self-arranged childcare provider at the conference or at home, or to defray the cost of a plane ticket for your children or caregiver to accompany you to the conference.</p>
<p>You can request a subsidy by responding to question 10 on the <a href="https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=t-mmC7Ngrk-S835t3Z6bZaQKPumvKxxDqgDQK1a8-MVURElBVEc4MElLRDZPUTZXTEtRUkNSVzJCUy4u">NAACL 2019 Special Requests Form</a>. If you are presenting at the conference and your schedule is complicated by your own childcare duties (e.g., naptime, meals), please use question 12 to tell the organizers about your time constraints.</p>
<p>To help you connect with other families at the conference, we are creating a mailing list for attendees who indicate during <a href="/registration/">registration</a> that they might bring children to NAACL. (If you have already registered but would like to be added to the list, please <a href="mailto:naacl2019-diversity-inclusion-chairs@googlegroups.com">let us know</a>.) You will also be invited to participate in a virtual discussion space before and during the conference.</p>
<p>The conference will provide rooms for nursing and for spending time with your children, and you can bring your children at no cost to the Welcome Reception where there will be a Kidz Corner. You will also have the chance to participate in conversations and mentoring on work-life balance with members of the D&I Committee. More details will be shared on the email list and in the virtual discussion space.</p>
<p>Here are some links to explore as you plan your visit:</p>
<ul>
<li>Local childcare provider service recommended by the conference hotel:
<a href="https://www.urbansitter.com">www.urbansitter.com</a>. We have no experience in using this service and only
recommend it as a potential option you can explore.</li>
<li>Local family activities: <a href="http://www.minneapolis.org/things-to-do/family/">www.minneapolis.org/things-to-do/family/</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Your questions, suggestions, or comments are warmly welcomed. Please feel free to contact the <a href="mailto:naacl2019-diversity-inclusion-chairs@googlegroups.com">Diversity and Inclusion committee</a>. We are all looking forward to helping you and your family enjoy NAACL 2019!</p>Diversity & Inclusion Committee – Childcare & Parental Inclusionnaacl2019-diversity-inclusion-chairs@googlegroups.comInitiatives to help you balance professional and family commitments.Call for livetweeters2019-04-30T00:00:00+00:002019-04-30T00:00:00+00:00/blog/livetweet-sign-up<p>Livetweeting of ACL conferences has become increasingly popular the last couple years.
Individual attendees summarize the talks they attend on Twitter, which has seen some positive feedback from the community.
Livetweeting helps include both our colleagues who can’t attend specific conferences and also attendees who are in a different parallel session.</p>
<p>This year at NAACL, based on responses to our <a href="https://twitter.com/NAACLHLT/status/1047995031859159043">preliminary survey</a> from a few months ago, we’re asking for volunteers who are willing to livetweet talks.
Coordinating community livetweeting efforts will help more papers be covered and reduce redundancy.
Volunteers will be assigned a few presentation sessions to attend and livetweet.</p>
<p>We’re still working on getting (token) material compensation for our volunteers, as well as improved Wireless services.
We’ll keep you posted on this as the conference approaches.
You can expect, if you wish, to be credited on the various scheduling platforms, boosted by our <a href="https://twitter.com/NAACLHLT/">Twitter user</a>, and get a shout-out from the session chair.</p>
<p>Never done any livetweeting before? No problem!
We’ll be running a short tutorial to help you get started, in the days leading up to the conference.
It will be based on <a href="http://www.rctatman.com/Livetweeting-Guide/">this guide</a>.</p>
<p>Interested in volunteering to help live tweet talks? Sign up <a href="https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=u5ghSHuuJUuLem1_Mvqgg75cTuxMZelAoOGAlm1SkcxUMEJVVVBMTTQzTkRQS0RUUklPT01aMUhDTS4u">here</a>!</p>Publicity & Social Media Co-Chairsnaacl-2019-social-media@googlegroups.comSign up to help cover NAACL on Twitter.Kudos, Reviewers!2019-04-15T00:00:00+00:002019-04-15T00:00:00+00:00/blog/kudos-reviewers<p>This year’s large number of submissions meant we also needed a large number of reviewers, 1321 in total. We wanted to convey our huge thanks to this heroic set of people, and a special shout out to the 348 of them who completed more than 5 reviews each! We especially want to recognize Graham Neubig and Rob van der Goot for completing the most reviews of all. The reviewers were anonymous to each other, so this is the first place their names will be revealed. This extra level of anonymity is one more way the ACL community is working to keep reviews as unbiased as they can possibly be.</p>
<p>If you work with any of these people, please give them a pat on the back today.</p>
<ul class="small">
<li>Omri Abend (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)</li>
<li>Sallam Abualhaija (SnT, University of Luxembourg)</li>
<li>Oliver Adams (Johns Hopkins University)</li>
<li>Heike Adel (Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence)</li>
<li>Stergos Afantenos (IRIT and CNRS, University of Toulouse)</li>
<li>Željko Agić (IT University of Copenhagen)</li>
<li>Wasi Ahmad (University of California, Los Angeles)</li>
<li>Mohammad Akbari (University College London)</li>
<li>Alan Akbik (Zalando Research)</li>
<li>Syed Sarfaraz Akhtar (Columbia University)</li>
<li>Md Shad Akhtar (Indian Institute of Technology Patna)</li>
<li>Khalid Al Khatib (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)</li>
<li>Nora Al-Twairesh (King Saud University)</li>
<li>Firoj Alam (QCRI)</li>
<li>Nikolaos Aletras (University of Sheffield)</li>
<li>Jan Alexandersson (DFKI GmbH)</li>
<li>Enrique Alfonseca (Google)</li>
<li>Dimitris Alikaniotis (Grammarly Inc.)</li>
<li>Miltiadis Allamanis (Microsoft Research)</li>
<li>Cissi Ovesdotter Alm (Rochester Institute of Technology)</li>
<li>Miguel A. Alonso (Universidade da Coruña)</li>
<li>Hadi Amiri (Harvard University)</li>
<li>Reinald Kim Amplayo (University of Edinburgh)</li>
<li>Antonios Anastasopoulos (Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Ion Androutsopoulos (Athens University of Economics and Business)</li>
<li>Anietie Andy (University of Pennsylvania)</li>
<li>Krasimir Angelov (University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology)</li>
<li>Mohammed Ansari (Amazon)</li>
<li>Marianna Apidianaki (CNRS)</li>
<li>Jun Araki (Bosch Research)</li>
<li>Timofey Arkhangelskiy (Universität Hamburg)</li>
<li>Caitrin Armstrong (McGill University)</li>
<li>Yoav Artzi (Cornell University)</li>
<li>Ehsaneddin Asgari (University of California, Berkeley)</li>
<li>Elliott Ash (ETH Zurich)</li>
<li>Duygu Ataman (Fondazione Bruno Kessler - University of Edinburgh)</li>
<li>Kartik Audhkhasi (IBM Research)</li>
<li>Joe Austerweil (University of Wisconsin - Madison)</li>
<li>Eleftherios Avramidis (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI))</li>
<li>amittai axelrod (Didi Chuxing)</li>
<li>Mahmoud Azab (University of Michigan)</li>
<li>Wilker Aziz (University of Amsterdam)</li>
<li>Joan Bachenko (Linguistech LLC/Montclair State University)</li>
<li>AmirAli Bagher Zadeh (Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Sanaz Bahargam (Boston University, Twitter)</li>
<li>Anusha Balakrishnan (Facebook Conversational AI)</li>
<li>Niranjan Balasubramanian (Stony Brook University)</li>
<li>Timothy Baldwin (The University of Melbourne)</li>
<li>Miguel Ballesteros (IBM Research AI)</li>
<li>David Bamman (University of California, Berkeley)</li>
<li>Trapit Bansal (University of Massachusetts Amherst)</li>
<li>Francesco Barbieri (Alpha, Telefonica)</li>
<li>Verginica Barbu Mititelu (RACAI)</li>
<li>Gianni Barlacchi (University of Trento)</li>
<li>Jeremy Barnes (University of Oslo)</li>
<li>Loïc Barrault (LIUM, Le Mans University)</li>
<li>Alberto Barrón-Cedeño (Qatar Computing Research Institute)</li>
<li>Valerio Basile (University of Turin)</li>
<li>Riza Batista-Navarro (School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester)</li>
<li>Timo Baumann (Universität Hamburg)</li>
<li>Yonatan Belinkov (MIT CSAIL)</li>
<li>Iz Beltagy (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)</li>
<li>Anja Belz (University of Brighton)</li>
<li>Yassine Benajiba (Symanto Group)</li>
<li>Farah Benamara (IRIT, Toulouse University)</li>
<li>Emily M. Bender (University of Washington)</li>
<li>Adrian Benton (Johns Hopkins University)</li>
<li>Jonathan Berant (Tel Aviv University and AI2)</li>
<li>Dario Bertero (Center for AI Research, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)</li>
<li>Nicola Bertoldi (FBK)</li>
<li>Gayatri Bhat (Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Suma Bhat (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)</li>
<li>Archna Bhatia (Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition)</li>
<li>parminder bhatia (Amazon)</li>
<li>Arnab Bhattacharya (Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur)</li>
<li>Pushpak Bhattacharyya (CSE Department, IIT Bombay)</li>
<li>Sudha Bhingardive (Research Scientist)</li>
<li>Timothy Bickmore (Northeastern University)</li>
<li>Or Biran (Elemental Cognition)</li>
<li>Yonatan Bisk (University of Washington)</li>
<li>Johannes Bjerva (Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen)</li>
<li>Johanna Björklund (Umeå University)</li>
<li>Philippe Blache (LPL CNRS)</li>
<li>Alan W Black (Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Graeme Blackwood (IBM Research AI)</li>
<li>Su Lin Blodgett (University of Massachusetts Amherst)</li>
<li>Michael Bloodgood (The College of New Jersey)</li>
<li>Théodore Bluche (Snips)</li>
<li>Victoria Bobicev (Technical University of Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova)</li>
<li>Gemma Boleda (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)</li>
<li>Danushka Bollegala (University of Liverpool)</li>
<li>Marcel Bollmann (University of Copenhagen)</li>
<li>Daniele Bonadiman (University of Trento)</li>
<li>Georgeta Bordea (Université de Bordeaux)</li>
<li>Cristina Bosco (Dipartimento di Informatica - Università di Torino)</li>
<li>Antoine Bosselut (University of Washington)</li>
<li>Florian Boudin (Université de Nantes)</li>
<li>Gerlof Bouma (University of Gothenburg)</li>
<li>Samuel R. Bowman (New York University)</li>
<li>S.R.K. Branavan (ASAPP)</li>
<li>Chloé Braud (LORIA - CNRS)</li>
<li>Felipe Bravo-Marquez (University of Waikato)</li>
<li>Chris Brew (Facebook)</li>
<li>Chris Brockett (Microsoft Research)</li>
<li>Julian Brooke (Thomson Reuters)</li>
<li>Thomas Brovelli (Meyer) (Google LLC)</li>
<li>Christopher Bryant (University of Cambridge)</li>
<li>Paweł Budzianowski (University of Cambridge)</li>
<li>Razvan Bunescu (Ohio University)</li>
<li>Laura Burdick (University of Michigan)</li>
<li>Kaylee Burns (University of California, Berkeley)</li>
<li>Jan Buys (University of Washington)</li>
<li>Bill Byrne (University of Cambridge)</li>
<li>Benjamin Börschinger (Google)</li>
<li>José G. C. de Souza (eBay Inc.)</li>
<li>Leticia Cagnina (Universidad Nacional de San Luis)</li>
<li>Renqin Cai (University of Virginia)</li>
<li>Ruket Cakici (NTENT Hispania)</li>
<li>Iacer Calixto (University of Amsterdam)</li>
<li>Hiram Calvo (Center for Computing Research)</li>
<li>Nicoletta Calzolari (ILC-CNR)</li>
<li>Jose Camacho-Collados (Cardiff University)</li>
<li>Erik Cambria (Nanyang Technological University)</li>
<li>Ricardo Campos (Polytechnique Institute of Tomar; LIAAD INESC TEC)</li>
<li>Burcu Can (Hacettepe University)</li>
<li>Marie Candito (LLF (Univ Paris Diderot / CNRS))</li>
<li>Yixin Cao (National University of Singapore)</li>
<li>Spencer Caplan (University of Pennsylvania)</li>
<li>Annalina Caputo (ADAPT Centre, Knowledge and Data Engineering Group, School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin)</li>
<li>Cornelia Caragea (University of Illinois at Chicago)</li>
<li>Doina Caragea (Kansas State University)</li>
<li>Dallas Card (Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Marine Carpuat (University of Maryland)</li>
<li>Xavier Carreras (dMetrics)</li>
<li>Lucien Carroll (Cisco)</li>
<li>Vittorio Castelli (IBM)</li>
<li>Thiago Castro Ferreira (Tilburg University)</li>
<li>Asli Celikyilmaz (Microsoft Research)</li>
<li>Fabio Celli (CIMeC - University of Trento)</li>
<li>Daniel Cer (Google Research)</li>
<li>Dustin Chacón (University of Minnesota)</li>
<li>Joyce Chai (Michigan State University)</li>
<li>Tanmoy Chakraborty (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIIT-D), India)</li>
<li>Nathanael Chambers (US Naval Academy)</li>
<li>Arjun Chandrasekaran (Georgia Institute of Technology)</li>
<li>Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran (Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International)</li>
<li>Khyathi Chandu (Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Angel Chang (Eloquent Labs)</li>
<li>Shiyu Chang (IBM Research)</li>
<li>Wei-Lun Chao (Cornell University)</li>
<li>Geeticka Chauhan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)</li>
<li>Wanxiang Che (Harbin Institute of Technology)</li>
<li>Ciprian Chelba (Google)</li>
<li>Boxing Chen (Alibaba)</li>
<li>Xilun Chen (Cornell University)</li>
<li>Danqi Chen (Stanford University)</li>
<li>Tongfei Chen (Johns Hopkins University)</li>
<li>Xinchi Chen (University of Edinburgh)</li>
<li>Francine Chen (FX Palo Alto Laboratory)</li>
<li>Kehai Chen (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)</li>
<li>Lei Chen (Liulishuo)</li>
<li>Lin Chen (Head of AI, Cambia Health Solutions)</li>
<li>Liwei Chen (Peking University)</li>
<li>Qian Chen (Alibaba Group)</li>
<li>Muhao Chen (University of California Los Angeles)</li>
<li>Nancy Chen (Institute for Infocomm Research)</li>
<li>Danlu Chen (Facebook AI Research)</li>
<li>Wenhu Chen (UCSB)</li>
<li>Yue Chen (Indiana University)</li>
<li>Yun-Nung Chen (National Taiwan University)</li>
<li>Chen Chen (Google Inc.)</li>
<li>Hao Cheng (University of Washington)</li>
<li>Weiwei Cheng (Amazon)</li>
<li>Fei Cheng (National Institute of Informatics)</li>
<li>Artem Chernodub (Grammarly)</li>
<li>Ekaterina Chernyak (National Research University – Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia)</li>
<li>Colin Cherry (Google)</li>
<li>Emmanuele Chersoni (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)</li>
<li>Jackie Chi Kit Cheung (McGill University)</li>
<li>Niyati Chhaya (Adobe Research)</li>
<li>David Chiang (University of Notre Dame)</li>
<li>Manoj Chinnakotla (Microsoft)</li>
<li>Luis Chiruzzo (Universidad de la República)</li>
<li>Eunsol Choi (University of Washington)</li>
<li>Shamil Chollampatt (National University of Singapore)</li>
<li>Leshem Choshen (Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel)</li>
<li>Prafulla Kumar Choubey (Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University)</li>
<li>Monojit Choudhury (Microsoft Research)</li>
<li>Shammur Absar Chowdhury (University of Trento)</li>
<li>Thomas Christie (University of Minnesota)</li>
<li>Chenhui Chu (Osaka University)</li>
<li>Kenneth Church (Baidu, USA)</li>
<li>Philipp Cimiano (Univ. Bielefeld)</li>
<li>Volkan Cirik (Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Seamus Clancy (MITRE)</li>
<li>Elizabeth Clark (University of Washington)</li>
<li>Stephen Clark (DeepMind)</li>
<li>Ann Clifton (Spotify)</li>
<li>Martin Cmejrek (IBM)</li>
<li>Maximin Coavoux (Naver Labs Europe)</li>
<li>Arman Cohan (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)</li>
<li>Trevor Cohen (University of Washington)</li>
<li>John Conroy (IDA Center for Computing Sciences)</li>
<li>Mathieu Constant (Université de Lorraine, ATILF, CNRS)</li>
<li>Danish Contractor (IBM Research & Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi)</li>
<li>Paul Cook (University of New Brunswick)</li>
<li>João Cordeiro (University of Beira Interior)</li>
<li>Silvio Cordeiro (Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle)</li>
<li>Caio Corro (University of Amsterdam)</li>
<li>Marta R. Costa-jussà (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)</li>
<li>Benoit Crabbé (University Paris Diderot)</li>
<li>Josep Crego (SYSTRAN)</li>
<li>Mathias Creutz (University of Helsinki)</li>
<li>Paul Crook (Facebook)</li>
<li>Xiaodong Cui (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)</li>
<li>Yiming Cui (Harbin Institute of Technology)</li>
<li>Aron Culotta (Illinois Institute of Technology)</li>
<li>Chris Culy (Independent Consultant)</li>
<li>Anna Currey (University of Edinburgh)</li>
<li>Luis Fernando D'Haro (Speech Technology Group, ETSI de Telecomunicación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)</li>
<li>Rossana da Cunha Silva (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)</li>
<li>Daniel Dahlmeier (SAP)</li>
<li>Zeyu Dai (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University)</li>
<li>Bhavana Dalvi (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)</li>
<li>Amitava Das (Mahindra Ecole Centrale)</li>
<li>Dipanjan Das (Google AI Language)</li>
<li>Rajarshi Das (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)</li>
<li>Pradeep Dasigi (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)</li>
<li>Vidas Daudaravicius (VTEX)</li>
<li>Elnaz Davoodi (Thomson Reuters)</li>
<li>Johannes Daxenberger (UKP Lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt)</li>
<li>Adrià de Gispert (SDL Research)</li>
<li>Éric de la Clergerie (INRIA)</li>
<li>Miryam de Lhoneux (Uppsala University)</li>
<li>Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam)</li>
<li>Thierry Declerck (DFKI GmbH)</li>
<li>Luciano Del Corro (Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik)</li>
<li>Louise Deléger (INRA)</li>
<li>Vera Demberg (Saarland University)</li>
<li>Thomas Demeester (Ghent University - imec)</li>
<li>Berkan Demirel (HAVELSAN Inc. & Middle East Technical University)</li>
<li>Yuntian Deng (Harvard University)</li>
<li>Lingjia Deng (Bloomberg L.P.)</li>
<li>Nina Dethlefs (University of Hull)</li>
<li>Daniel Deutsch (University of Pennsylvania)</li>
<li>David DeVault (University of Southern California)</li>
<li>Barry Devereux (Queen's University, Belfast)</li>
<li>Kuntal Dey (IBM Research India)</li>
<li>Paramveer Dhillon (MIT)</li>
<li>Bhuwan Dhingra (Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Maria Pia di Buono (University of Zagreb)</li>
<li>Haibo Ding (Bosch Research and Technology Center)</li>
<li>Shuoyang Ding (Johns Hopkins University)</li>
<li>Georgiana Dinu (Amazon AWS)</li>
<li>Dmitriy Dligach (Loyola University Chicago)</li>
<li>Li Dong (University of Edinburgh)</li>
<li>Doug Downey (Northwestern University, Allen AI)</li>
<li>Gabriel Doyle (San Diego State University)</li>
<li>Mark Dras (Macquarie University)</li>
<li>Mark Dredze (Johns Hopkins University)</li>
<li>Markus Dreyer (Amazon.com)</li>
<li>Rotem Dror (Technion)</li>
<li>Lan Du (Monash University)</li>
<li>Xinya Du (Cornell University)</li>
<li>Nan Duan (Microsoft Research Asia)</li>
<li>Philipp Dufter (Center for Information and Language Processing, LMU Munich)</li>
<li>Kevin Duh (Johns Hopkins University)</li>
<li>Ewan Dunbar (Université Paris Diderot)</li>
<li>Jonathan Dunn (University of Canterbury)</li>
<li>Nadir Durrani (QCRI)</li>
<li>Greg Durrett (UT Austin)</li>
<li>Ondřej Dušek (Charles University)</li>
<li>Tomasz Dwojak (Adam Mickiewicz University)</li>
<li>Melody Dye (Netflix Research)</li>
<li>Chris Dyer (DeepMind)</li>
<li>Stefan Dück (Universität Leipzig)</li>
<li>Steffen Eger (UKP Lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt)</li>
<li>Markus Egg (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)</li>
<li>Vladimir Eidelman (FiscalNote)</li>
<li>Jacob Eisenstein (Georgia Institute of Technology)</li>
<li>Layla El Asri (Microsoft Research Montreal)</li>
<li>Heba Elfardy (Amazon)</li>
<li>Ahmed Elgohary (University of Maryland, College Park)</li>
<li>Michael Elhadad (Ben Gurion University)</li>
<li>Hady Elsahar (Naver Labs Europe)</li>
<li>Micha Elsner (The Ohio State University)</li>
<li>Erkut Erdem (Hacettepe University)</li>
<li>Akiko Eriguchi (Microsoft Research)</li>
<li>Katrin Erk (University of Texas at Austin)</li>
<li>Marcelo Errecalde (Universidad Nacional de San Luis)</li>
<li>Hugo Jair Escalante (INAOE)</li>
<li>Maxine Eskenazi (Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Allyson Ettinger (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago)</li>
<li>Kilian Evang (University of Düsseldorf)</li>
<li>Marzieh Fadaee (University of Amsterdam)</li>
<li>Cédrick Fairon (Université catholique de Louvain, CENTAL)</li>
<li>Agnieszka Falenska (IMS, University of Stuttgart)</li>
<li>Ingrid Falk</li>
<li>Tobias Falke (Amazon)</li>
<li>James Fan (Hello Vera)</li>
<li>Hui Fang (University of Delaware)</li>
<li>Meng Fang (Tencent AI Lab)</li>
<li>Hossein Fani (University of New Brunswick)</li>
<li>Manaal Faruqui (Google)</li>
<li>Benoit Favre (Aix-Marseille University LIS/CNRS)</li>
<li>Marcello Federico (Amazon AI)</li>
<li>Mariano Felice (University of Cambridge)</li>
<li>Xiaocheng Feng (Harbin Institute of Technology,SCIR lab)</li>
<li>Song Feng (IBM Research)</li>
<li>Olivier Ferret (CEA LIST)</li>
<li>Elisabetta Fersini (University of Milano-Bicocca)</li>
<li>Besnik Fetahu (L3S Research Center / Leibniz University Hannover)</li>
<li>Simone Filice (Amazon)</li>
<li>Katja Filippova (Google)</li>
<li>Tim Finin (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)</li>
<li>Mark Finlayson (FIU)</li>
<li>Gregory Finley (EMR.AI)</li>
<li>Orhan Firat (Google AI)</li>
<li>Nicholas FitzGerald (Google)</li>
<li>Eileen Fitzpatrick (Montclair State University)</li>
<li>Jeffrey Flanigan (UMass Amherst)</li>
<li>Margaret Fleck (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)</li>
<li>Lucie Flekova (Amazon Research)</li>
<li>Michael Flor (Educational Testing Service)</li>
<li>Antske Fokkens (VU Amsterdam)</li>
<li>José A. R. Fonollosa (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)</li>
<li>Tommaso Fornaciari (Bocconi University)</li>
<li>Karën Fort (Université Paris-Sorbonne)</li>
<li>Meaghan Fowlie (Saarland University)</li>
<li>Kathleen C. Fraser (National Research Council Canada)</li>
<li>Markus Freitag (Google AI)</li>
<li>André Freitas (University of Manchester)</li>
<li>Lea Frermann (Amazon Core AI)</li>
<li>Daniel Fried (UC Berkeley)</li>
<li>Annemarie Friedrich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)</li>
<li>Jason Fries (Stanford University)</li>
<li>Lisheng Fu (New York University)</li>
<li>Michel Galley (Microsoft Research)</li>
<li>Michael Gamon (Microsoft Research)</li>
<li>Kuzman Ganchev (Google)</li>
<li>Ashwinkumar Ganesan (University Of Maryland Baltimore County)</li>
<li>Rashmi Gangadharaiah (Amazon)</li>
<li>Debasis Ganguly (IBM Research Lab, Dublin)</li>
<li>Qin Gao (Google)</li>
<li>Wei Gao (Victoria University of Wellington)</li>
<li>Jorge Garcia Flores (LIPN - Université Paris 13)</li>
<li>Claire Gardent (CNRS/LORIA, Nancy)</li>
<li>Matt Gardner (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)</li>
<li>Dan Garrette (Google Research)</li>
<li>Milica Gasic (Saarland University)</li>
<li>Albert Gatt (University of Malta)</li>
<li>Niyu Ge (IBM Research)</li>
<li>Sebastian Gehrmann (Harvard University)</li>
<li>Spandana Gella (Amazon AI)</li>
<li>Kallirroi Georgila (University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies)</li>
<li>Reza Ghaeini (Oregon State University)</li>
<li>Shabnam Ghaffarzadegan (Robert Bosch LLC)</li>
<li>Marjan Ghazvininejad (Facebook AI Research)</li>
<li>Debanjan Ghosh (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)</li>
<li>Kevin Gimpel (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago)</li>
<li>Filip Ginter (University of Turku)</li>
<li>Rahul Goel (Amazon Alexa)</li>
<li>Darina Gold (University of Duisburg-Essen)</li>
<li>Yoav Goldberg (Bar Ilan University)</li>
<li>Sujatha Gollapalli (A*STAR, I2R)</li>
<li>Helena Gomez (Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas - UNAM)</li>
<li>Fabio Gonzalez (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)</li>
<li>Julio Gonzalo (UNED)</li>
<li>Teresa Gonçalves (Department of Informatics, University of Évora)</li>
<li>Jonathan Gordon (Vassar College)</li>
<li>Anuj Goyal (Amazon Alexa)</li>
<li>Pawan Goyal (IIT Kharagpur)</li>
<li>Mario Graff (INFOTEC Centro de Investigación e Innovación en Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación)</li>
<li>Yvette Graham (Dublin City University)</li>
<li>David Grangier (Google)</li>
<li>Christan Grant (University of Oklahoma)</li>
<li>Yulia Grishina (Amazon)</li>
<li>Alvin Grissom II (Ursinus College)</li>
<li>Kristina Gulordava (University Pompeu Fabra)</li>
<li>Chulaka Gunasekara (IBM Research)</li>
<li>Jiang Guo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)</li>
<li>Weiwei Guo (LinkedIn)</li>
<li>Yufan Guo (IBM, University of Cambridge)</li>
<li>Deepak Gupta (IIT Patna)</li>
<li>Nitish Gupta (University of Pennsylvania)</li>
<li>Vivek Gupta (School of Computing, University of Utah)</li>
<li>E. Dario Gutierrez (IBM Research)</li>
<li>Francisco Guzmán (Facebook)</li>
<li>Jeremy Gwinnup (Air Force Research Laboratory)</li>
<li>Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez (Universidade da Coruña)</li>
<li>Nizar Habash (New York University Abu Dhabi)</li>
<li>Ivan Habernal (BI X GmbH)</li>
<li>Gholamreza Haffari (Monash University)</li>
<li>Udo Hahn (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)</li>
<li>Hannaneh Hajishirzi (University of Washington)</li>
<li>John Hale (University of Georgia and Deepmind)</li>
<li>Oren Halvani (Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology)</li>
<li>Michael Hammond (University of Arizona)</li>
<li>LIFENG HAN (Dublin City University)</li>
<li>Na-Rae Han (University of Pittsburgh)</li>
<li>Xu Han (Tsinghua University)</li>
<li>Abram Handler (University of Massachusetts Amherst)</li>
<li>Thomas Hanneforth (Universität Potsdam)</li>
<li>Sanda Harabagiu (University of Texas at Dallas)</li>
<li>Tatsuya Harada (The University of Tokyo)</li>
<li>Randy Harris (University of Waterloo)</li>
<li>Mohammed Hasanuzzaman (ADAPT Centre, Dublin, Ireland)</li>
<li>Chikara Hashimoto (Yahoo Japan Corporation)</li>
<li>Eva Hasler (SDL Research)</li>
<li>Hany Hassan (Microsoft Research)</li>
<li>Bradley Hauer (University of Alberta)</li>
<li>Claudia Hauff (Delft University of Technology)</li>
<li>Catherine Havasi (MIT Media Lab)</li>
<li>Serhii Havrylov (University of Edinburgh, Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation)</li>
<li>Katsuhiko Hayashi (Osaka University)</li>
<li>Devamanyu Hazarika (National University of Singapore)</li>
<li>Hua He (University of Maryland, College Park)</li>
<li>He He (Stanford University)</li>
<li>Hangfeng He (University of Pennsylvania)</li>
<li>Ji He (University of Washington)</li>
<li>Kun He (Facebook Reality Labs)</li>
<li>Ruidan He (National University of Singapore)</li>
<li>Shilin He (the Chinese University of Hong Kong)</li>
<li>Shizhu He (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences)</li>
<li>Yulan He (University of Warwick)</li>
<li>Kenneth Heafield (University of Edinburgh)</li>
<li>Peter Heeman (OHSU / CSLU)</li>
<li>Jindřich Helcl (Charles University in Prague)</li>
<li>Christian Hempelmann (Texas A&M University–Commerce)</li>
<li>John Henderson (MITRE)</li>
<li>Sam Henry (VCU)</li>
<li>Aurélie Herbelot (University of Trento)</li>
<li>Delia Irazú Hernández Farías (Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica)</li>
<li>Daniel Hershcovich (University of Copenhagen)</li>
<li>Jonathan Herzig (Tel-Aviv University)</li>
<li>Jack Hessel (cornell.edu)</li>
<li>Derrick Higgins (American Family Insurance)</li>
<li>Tsutomu Hirao (NTT Communication Science Labs.)</li>
<li>Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto)</li>
<li>Beth Ann Hockey (BAHRC)</li>
<li>Eric Holgate (University of Texas at Austin)</li>
<li>Juneki Hong (Oregon State University)</li>
<li>Enamul Hoque (York University)</li>
<li>Tobias Horsmann (Language Technology Lab, University of Duisburg-Essen)</li>
<li>Nabil Hossain (University of Rochester)</li>
<li>Yufang Hou (IBM Research)</li>
<li>Estevam Hruschka (Amazon)</li>
<li>Baotian Hu (UMass Lowell)</li>
<li>Hexiang Hu (USC)</li>
<li>Zhiting Hu (Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Junjie Hu (Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Zhichao Hu (Google)</li>
<li>Xinyu Hua (Northeastern University)</li>
<li>Yiqing Hua (Cornell University)</li>
<li>Binxuan Huang (CMU)</li>
<li>Xiaolei Huang (Dept. of Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder)</li>
<li>Hen-Hsen Huang (Department of Computer Science, National Chengchi University)</li>
<li>Lifu Huang (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)</li>
<li>Qiuyuan Huang (Microsoft Research)</li>
<li>Xuanjing Huang (Fudan University)</li>
<li>Zhongqiang Huang (Alibaba Group)</li>
<li>Mans Hulden (University of Colorado)</li>
<li>Gonzalo Iglesias (SDL)</li>
<li>Ryu Iida (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)</li>
<li>Shajith Ikbal (IBM Research, India.)</li>
<li>Kenji Imamura (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)</li>
<li>Oana Inel (Delft University of Technology)</li>
<li>Diana Inkpen (University of Ottawa)</li>
<li>Dan Iter (Stanford University)</li>
<li>Srinivasan Iyer (University of Washington)</li>
<li>Mohit Iyyer (University of Massachusetts Amherst)</li>
<li>Cassandra L. Jacobs (University of California, Davis)</li>
<li>Aaron Jaech (Facebook)</li>
<li>Sarthak Jain (Northeastern University)</li>
<li>Abhik Jana (IIT Kharagpur)</li>
<li>Hyeju Jang (University of British Columbia)</li>
<li>Peter Jansen (University of Arizona)</li>
<li>Adam Jardine (Rutgers University)</li>
<li>Adam Jatowt (Kyoto University)</li>
<li>Rahul Jha (Microsoft Corporation)</li>
<li>Harsh Jhamtani (Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Yangfeng Ji (Computer Science, University of Virginia)</li>
<li>Robin Jia (Stanford University)</li>
<li>Zhen Jia (Southwest Jiaotong University)</li>
<li>Hui Jiang (York University)</li>
<li>Jyun-Yu Jiang (University of California, Los Angeles)</li>
<li>Yong Jiang (ShanghaiTech University)</li>
<li>Zhanming Jie (Singapore University of Technology and Design)</li>
<li>Antonio Jimeno Yepes (IBM)</li>
<li>Lifeng Jin (The Ohio State University)</li>
<li>Yohan Jo (Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Anders Johannsen (Apple Inc)</li>
<li>Michael Johnston (Interactions Corporation)</li>
<li>Kristiina Jokinen (AIRC, AIST)</li>
<li>Gareth Jones (Dublin City University)</li>
<li>Aditya Joshi (CSIRO)</li>
<li>Vidur Joshi (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)</li>
<li>David Jurgens (University of Michigan)</li>
<li>Prathusha K Sarma (University of Wisconsin - Madison)</li>
<li>Jad Kabbara (McGill University - MILA)</li>
<li>Sushant Kafle (Rochester Institute of Technology)</li>
<li>Nobuhiro Kaji (Yahoo Japan Corporation)</li>
<li>Tomoyuki Kajiwara (Osaka University)</li>
<li>Jaap Kamps (University of Amsterdam)</li>
<li>Min-Yen Kan (National University of Singapore)</li>
<li>Dongyeop Kang (Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Katharina Kann (NYU)</li>
<li>Sarvnaz Karimi (CSIRO)</li>
<li>Dimitri Kartsaklis (Apple)</li>
<li>Ramakanth Kavuluru (University of Kentucky)</li>
<li>Anna Kazantseva (National Research Council Canada)</li>
<li>Chris Kedzie (Columbia University)</li>
<li>Katherine Keith (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst)</li>
<li>Frank Keller (University of Edinburgh)</li>
<li>Yova Kementchedjhieva (University of Copenhagen)</li>
<li>Kian Kenyon-Dean (McGill University)</li>
<li>Nitish Shirish Keskar (Salesforce Research)</li>
<li>Salam Khalifa (New York University Abu Dhabi)</li>
<li>Maxim Khalilov (Unbabel.com)</li>
<li>Daniel Khashabi (University of Pennsylvania)</li>
<li>Huda Khayrallah (The Johns Hopkins University)</li>
<li>Douwe Kiela (Facebook)</li>
<li>Mert Kilickaya (University of Amsterdam)</li>
<li>Halil Kilicoglu (National Library of Medicine)</li>
<li>Been Kim (Google Brain)</li>
<li>Joo-Kyung Kim (Amazon Alexa)</li>
<li>Yunsu Kim (RWTH Aachen University)</li>
<li>Gunhee Kim (Seoul National University)</li>
<li>Young-Bum Kim (Amazon Alexa Brain)</li>
<li>Sun Kim (National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI))</li>
<li>Yoon Kim (Harvard University)</li>
<li>David King (The Ohio State University)</li>
<li>Eliyahu Kiperwasser (Bar-Ilan University)</li>
<li>Svetlana Kiritchenko (NRC)</li>
<li>Andreas Søeborg Kirkedal (Interactions)</li>
<li>Christo Kirov (Google)</li>
<li>Julia Kiseleva (Microsoft Research AI)</li>
<li>Nikita Kitaev (University of California, Berkeley)</li>
<li>Roman Klinger (University of Stuttgart)</li>
<li>Rebecca Knowles (Johns Hopkins University)</li>
<li>Hayato Kobayashi (Yahoo Japan Corporation / RIKEN AIP)</li>
<li>Sosuke Kobayashi (Preferred Networks, Inc.)</li>
<li>Gregory Kobele (Universität Leipzig)</li>
<li>Thomas Kober (University of Edinburgh)</li>
<li>Ari Kobren (University of Massachusetts Amherst)</li>
<li>Ekaterina Kochmar (University of Cambridge)</li>
<li>Philipp Koehn (Johns Hopkins University)</li>
<li>Tom Kollar (n)</li>
<li>Mamoru Komachi (Tokyo Metropolitan University)</li>
<li>Kazunori Komatani (Osaka University)</li>
<li>Rik Koncel-Kedziorski (University of Washington)</li>
<li>Ravi Kondadadi (United Health Group)</li>
<li>Stasinos Konstantopoulos (NCSR Demokritos)</li>
<li>Ioannis Konstas (Heriot-Watt University)</li>
<li>Parisa Kordjamshidi (Tulane)</li>
<li>Leila Kosseim (Concordia University)</li>
<li>Emiel Krahmer (Tilburg University)</li>
<li>Brigitte Krenn (Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence)</li>
<li>Ralf Krestel (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam)</li>
<li>Julia Kreutzer (Department of Computational Linguistics, Heidelberg University)</li>
<li>Jayant Krishnamurthy (Semantic Machines)</li>
<li>Udo Kruschwitz (University of Essex)</li>
<li>Da Kuang (Amazon)</li>
<li>Marco Kuhlmann (Linköping University)</li>
<li>Vivek Kulkarni (Stanford)</li>
<li>Anjishnu Kumar (Amazon Alexa)</li>
<li>Sachin Kumar (Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Sanjeev Kumar Karn (University of Munich)</li>
<li>Anil Kumar Singh (IIT (BHU), Varanasi)</li>
<li>Jonathan K. Kummerfeld (University of Michigan)</li>
<li>Anoop Kunchukuttan (Microsoft AI and Research)</li>
<li>Gourab Kundu (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)</li>
<li>Mikko Kurimo (Aalto University)</li>
<li>Shuhei Kurita (Kyoto University)</li>
<li>Sadao Kurohashi (Kyoto University)</li>
<li>Ilia Kuznetsov (UKP Lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt)</li>
<li>Arne Köhn (Saarland University)</li>
<li>Sandra Kübler (Indiana University)</li>
<li>Ophélie Lacroix (Siteimprove)</li>
<li>Faisal Ladhak (Amazon)</li>
<li>Surafel Melaku Lakew (University of Trento and Fondazione Bruno Kessler)</li>
<li>Sobha Lalitha Devi (Au-KBC Research Centre, Anna University)</li>
<li>John P. Lalor (University of Massachusetts Amherst)</li>
<li>Mathias Lambert (Amazon.com)</li>
<li>Patrik Lambert (Iconic Translation Machines)</li>
<li>Vasileios Lampos (University College London)</li>
<li>Gerasimos Lampouras (University of Cambridge)</li>
<li>Ni Lao (mosaix.ai)</li>
<li>Mirella Lapata (School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh)</li>
<li>Mark Last (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)</li>
<li>Alon Lavie (Amazon/Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Carolin Lawrence (NEC Laboratories Europe)</li>
<li>Joseph Le Roux (Université Paris Nord)</li>
<li>Kenton Lee (Google Research)</li>
<li>Kathy Lee (Philips Research North America)</li>
<li>Lung-Hao Lee (National Central University)</li>
<li>Moontae Lee (University of Illinois at Chicago)</li>
<li>Chong Min Lee (Educational Testing Service)</li>
<li>Artuur Leeuwenberg (KU Leuven)</li>
<li>Els Lefever (LT3, Ghent University)</li>
<li>Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa)</li>
<li>Chee Wee (Ben) Leong (Educational Testing Service)</li>
<li>Sarah Ita Levitan (Columbia University)</li>
<li>Omer Levy (Facebook AI Research)</li>
<li>Mike Lewis (Facebook AI Research)</li>
<li>Chen Li (Tencent)</li>
<li>Chunyuan Li (Microsoft Research)</li>
<li>Wenjie Li (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)</li>
<li>Jian Li (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)</li>
<li>Junyi Jessy Li (University of Texas at Austin)</li>
<li>Chenliang Li (Wuhan University)</li>
<li>Jing Li (Tencent AI Lab)</li>
<li>Piji Li (Tencent AI Lab)</li>
<li>Sheng Li (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Advanced Speech Technology Laboratory)</li>
<li>Sujian Li (Peking University)</li>
<li>Xiujun Li (Microsoft Research Redmond)</li>
<li>Xiang Li (University of Massachusetts Amherst)</li>
<li>Yitong Li (University of Melbourne)</li>
<li>Wei Li (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)</li>
<li>Zhongliang Li (Google)</li>
<li>Paul Pu Liang (Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Jindřich Libovický (Charles University)</li>
<li>Timm Lichte (University of Tübingen)</li>
<li>Anne-Laure Ligozat (LIMSI-CNRS & ENSIIE)</li>
<li>Chu-Cheng Lin (Johns Hopkins University)</li>
<li>Zhouhan Lin (University of Montreal)</li>
<li>Jimmy Lin (University of Waterloo)</li>
<li>Ying Lin (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)</li>
<li>Yankai Lin (Tsinghua University)</li>
<li>Xi Victoria Lin (Salesforce Research)</li>
<li>Tom Lippincott (Johns Hopkins University)</li>
<li>Zachary Lipton (Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Pierre Lison (Norwegian Computing Centre)</li>
<li>Bing Liu (Facebook)</li>
<li>Chenxi Liu (Johns Hopkins University)</li>
<li>Xueqing Liu (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign)</li>
<li>Zhengzhong Liu (Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Jingjing Liu (Microsoft)</li>
<li>Jiangming Liu (University of Edinburgh)</li>
<li>Hongfang Liu (Mayo Clinic)</li>
<li>Bing Liu (University of Illinois at Chicago)</li>
<li>Fei Liu (The University of Melbourne)</li>
<li>Qun Liu (Huawei Noah's Ark Lab)</li>
<li>Yang Liu (Tsinghua University)</li>
<li>Ye Liu (National University of Singapore)</li>
<li>Liyuan Liu (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)</li>
<li>Zhiyuan Liu (Tsinghua University)</li>
<li>Mengwen Liu (Amazon)</li>
<li>Yijia Liu (Research Center for Social Computing and Information Retrieval, Harbin Institute of Technology)</li>
<li>Shujie Liu (Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China)</li>
<li>Tianyu Liu (Peking University)</li>
<li>Nikola Ljubešić (Jožef Stefan Institute)</li>
<li>Adam Lopez (University of Edinburgh)</li>
<li>Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura (University of Florida)</li>
<li>Annie Louis (University of Edinburgh)</li>
<li>Daniel Loureiro (University of Porto)</li>
<li>Pablo Loyola (IBM Research)</li>
<li>Sharid Loáiciga (Gothenburg University)</li>
<li>Wei Lu (Singapore University of Technology and Design)</li>
<li>Yi Luan (University of Washington)</li>
<li>Oswaldo Ludwig (Nuance Communications)</li>
<li>Stephanie M. Lukin (U.S. Army Research Laboratory)</li>
<li>Ruotian Luo (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago)</li>
<li>Anh Tuan Luu (MIT)</li>
<li>Verena Lyding (Eurac Research Bolzano/Bozen)</li>
<li>Teresa Lynn (Dublin City University)</li>
<li>Adrián Pastor López Monroy (Mathematics Research Center CIMAT)</li>
<li>Danni Ma (University of Pennsylvania)</li>
<li>Yukun Ma (Machine Learning Lab, Continental AG)</li>
<li>Mingbo Ma (Baidu Research)</li>
<li>Tengfei Ma (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)</li>
<li>Mounica Maddela (Ohio State University)</li>
<li>Pranava Madhyastha (Imperial College London)</li>
<li>Andrea Madotto (The Hong Kong University Of Science and Technology)</li>
<li>Debanjan Mahata (Bloomberg)</li>
<li>Darshini Mahendran (Virginia Commonwealth University)</li>
<li>Jean Maillard (University of Cambridge)</li>
<li>Anutosh Maitra (Accenture)</li>
<li>Navonil Majumder (CIC)</li>
<li>Peter Makarov (University of Zurich)</li>
<li>Prodromos Malakasiotis (Athens University of Economics and Business Informatics Department)</li>
<li>Chaitanya Malaviya (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)</li>
<li>Andreas Maletti (Universität Leipzig)</li>
<li>Fragkiskos Malliaros (CentraleSupelec, University of Paris-Saclay)</li>
<li>Rob Malouf (San Diego State University)</li>
<li>Suresh Manandhar (University of York)</li>
<li>Michael Mandel (Brooklyn College, CUNY)</li>
<li>Lydia Manikonda (Arizona State University)</li>
<li>Gideon Mann (Bloomberg LP)</li>
<li>Ramesh Manuvinakurike (University of Southern California)</li>
<li>Diego Marcheggiani (Amazon)</li>
<li>Michał Marcińczuk (Wrocław University of Science and Technology)</li>
<li>Daniel Marcu (Amazon)</li>
<li>Marco Marelli (University of Milano-Bicocca)</li>
<li>David Mareček (Charles University)</li>
<li>Benjamin Marie (NICT)</li>
<li>Katja Markert (Heidelberg University)</li>
<li>Ilia Markov (INRIA)</li>
<li>Edison Marrese-Taylor (The University of Tokyo)</li>
<li>Iain Marshall (King's College London)</li>
<li>Scott Martin (Facebook)</li>
<li>André F. T. Martins (Unbabel, Instituto de Telecomunicacoes)</li>
<li>David Martins de Matos (INESC ID Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa)</li>
<li>Héctor Martínez Alonso (Apple Inc)</li>
<li>Yann Mathet (GREYC - Univesity of Caen)</li>
<li>Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)</li>
<li>Takuya Matsuzaki (Nagoya University)</li>
<li>Yevgen Matusevych (University of Edinburgh)</li>
<li>Cynthia Matuszek (UMBC)</li>
<li>Jonathan May (USC Information Sciences Institute)</li>
<li>Stephen Mayhew (University of Pennsylvania)</li>
<li>Diana Maynard (University of Sheffield)</li>
<li>Bryan McCann (Salesforce)</li>
<li>Arya D. McCarthy (Johns Hopkins University)</li>
<li>Diana McCarthy (University of Cambridge (DTAL))</li>
<li>John Philip McCrae (Insight Center for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland Galway)</li>
<li>Ryan McDonald (Google)</li>
<li>Bill McDowell (Duolingo)</li>
<li>Bridget McInnes (Virginia Commonwealth University)</li>
<li>Kathy McKeown (Columbia University)</li>
<li>Oren Melamud (IBM)</li>
<li>Nurit Melnik (The Open University of Israel)</li>
<li>Arul Menezes (Microsoft Research)</li>
<li>Rui Meng (University of Pittsburgh)</li>
<li>Yuanliang Meng (University of Massachusetts Lowell)</li>
<li>Elizabeth Merkhofer (MITRE)</li>
<li>Christian M. Meyer (UKP Lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt)</li>
<li>Julian Michael (University of Washington)</li>
<li>Paul Michel (Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Lesly Miculicich (Idiap Research Institute / EPFL)</li>
<li>Sebastian J. Mielke (Johns Hopkins University)</li>
<li>Margot Mieskes (University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt)</li>
<li>Todor Mihaylov (Heidelberg University)</li>
<li>Claudiu Mihăilă (connex.ai)</li>
<li>Elena Mikhalkova (Tyumen State University)</li>
<li>Simon Mille (Pompeu Fabra University)</li>
<li>Pasquale Minervini (UCL)</li>
<li>Sabino Miranda-Jiménez (CONACyT-INFOTEC)</li>
<li>Paramita Mirza (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)</li>
<li>Abhinav Misra (Educational Testing Service (ETS))</li>
<li>Amita Misra (IBM Research)</li>
<li>Dipendra Misra (Cornell University)</li>
<li>Margaret Mitchell (Google Research and Machine Intelligence)</li>
<li>Jeff Mitchell (University of Bristol)</li>
<li>Bhaskar Mitra (Microsoft)</li>
<li>Arpit Mittal (Amazon)</li>
<li>Makoto Miwa (Toyota Technological Institute)</li>
<li>Yusuke Miyao (University of Tokyo)</li>
<li>Ashutosh Modi (Disney Research)</li>
<li>Aditya Mogadala (Saarland University)</li>
<li>Mahmoud Mohammadi (UNC Charlotte)</li>
<li>Mrinal Mohit (Facebook)</li>
<li>Diego Molla (Macquarie University)</li>
<li>Nicholas Monath (University of Massachusetts Amherst)</li>
<li>Will Monroe (Duolingo)</li>
<li>Andres Montoyo (University of Alicante)</li>
<li>Seungwhan Moon (Facebook Conversational AI)</li>
<li>Nafise Sadat Moosavi (UKP Lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt)</li>
<li>Mohamed Morchid (University of Avignon)</li>
<li>Isabel Moreno (University of Alicante)</li>
<li>Masud Moshtaghi (Amazon Alexa)</li>
<li>Nasrin Mostafazadeh (Elemental Cognition)</li>
<li>Diego Moussallem (University of Leipzig)</li>
<li>Kadri Muischnek (senior researcher)</li>
<li>Animesh Mukherjee (IIT Kharagpur)</li>
<li>Hala Mulki (Selcuk University)</li>
<li>Philippe Muller (IRIT, Toulouse University)</li>
<li>Yugo Murawaki (Kyoto University)</li>
<li>Smaranda Muresan (Columbia University)</li>
<li>Kenton Murray (University of Notre Dame)</li>
<li>Rudra Murthy (Indian Institute Of Technology Bombay)</li>
<li>Éva Mújdricza-Maydt (Department of Computational Linguistics, Heidelberg University)</li>
<li>Kaili Müürisep (University of Tartu)</li>
<li>Moin Nabi (SAP Machine Learning Research)</li>
<li>Aakanksha Naik (Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Maryam Najafian (MIT)</li>
<li>Mikio Nakano (Honda Research Institute Japan Co., Ltd.)</li>
<li>Vinay Namboodiri (IIT Kanpur)</li>
<li>Courtney Napoles (Grammarly)</li>
<li>Diane Napolitano (Laboratory for Computer Science Research at Rutgers University)</li>
<li>Jason Naradowsky (Johns Hopkins)</li>
<li>Shashi Narayan (Google)</li>
<li>Setareh Nasihati Gilani (University of Southern California)</li>
<li>Sudip Kumar Naskar (Jadavpur University)</li>
<li>Alexis Nasr (Aix Marseille University)</li>
<li>Vivi Nastase (University of Heidelberg)</li>
<li>Tristan Naumann (Microsoft Research)</li>
<li>Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome)</li>
<li>Graham Neubig (Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Mark Neumann (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)</li>
<li>Guenter Neumann (DFKI & Saarland University)</li>
<li>Vincent Ng (University of Texas at Dallas)</li>
<li>Thien Huu Nguyen (University of Oregon)</li>
<li>Dong Nguyen (Alan Turing Institute)</li>
<li>Dat Quoc Nguyen (The University of Melbourne)</li>
<li>Patrick Nguyen (Google)</li>
<li>Zhaoheng Ni (The Graduate Center, City University of New York)</li>
<li>Jianmo Ni (University of California San Diego)</li>
<li>Garrett Nicolai (Johns Hopkins University)</li>
<li>Vlad Niculae (Instituto de Telecomunicações)</li>
<li>Jian-Yun NIE (University of Montreal)</li>
<li>Thomas Niebler (University of Würzburg)</li>
<li>Vassilina Nikoulina (Naver Labs Europe)</li>
<li>Qiang Ning (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)</li>
<li>Malvina Nissim (University of Groningen)</li>
<li>Zheng-Yu Niu (Baidu Inc.)</li>
<li>Xing Niu (University of Maryland)</li>
<li>Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University)</li>
<li>Jekaterina Novikova (Heriot Watt University)</li>
<li>Debora Nozza (University of Milano-Bicocca)</li>
<li>Benjamin Nye (Northeastern University)</li>
<li>Aurélie Névéol (LIMSI-CNRS)</li>
<li>Alexander O'Connor (Autodesk)</li>
<li>Brendan O'Connor (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst)</li>
<li>Daniela Alejandra Ochoa (Conacyt-centrogeo)</li>
<li>Nir Ofek (Ben Gurion University)</li>
<li>Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar)</li>
<li>Alice Oh (KAIST)</li>
<li>Jong-Hoon Oh (NICT)</li>
<li>Kiyonori Ohtake (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)</li>
<li>Tsuyoshi Okita (Kyushuu institute of technology university)</li>
<li>Manabu Okumura (Tokyo Institute of Technology)</li>
<li>Amy Olex (Virginia Commonwealth University)</li>
<li>Shereen Oraby (University of California Santa Cruz)</li>
<li>Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton)</li>
<li>Petya Osenova (Sofia University and IICT-BAS)</li>
<li>Mari Ostendorf (University of Washington)</li>
<li>Naoki Otani (Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Deepak P (Queen's University Belfast)</li>
<li>Sebastian Padó (Stuttgart University)</li>
<li>Gustavo Henrique Paetzold (Federal University of Technology)</li>
<li>Serguei Pakhomov (University of Minnesota)</li>
<li>Shruti Palaskar (Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Martha Palmer (University of Colorado)</li>
<li>Girish Palshikar (Tata Consultancy Services Limited)</li>
<li>Alexander Panchenko (University of Hamburg)</li>
<li>Haris Papageorgiou (Institute for Language and Speech Processing ILSP/ ATHENA R.C.)</li>
<li>Nikolaos Pappas (Idiap Research Institute)</li>
<li>Emerson Paraiso (Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Parana - PUCPR)</li>
<li>Natalie Parde (University of Illinois at Chicago)</li>
<li>Pulkit Parikh (IIIT Hyderabad)</li>
<li>Joonsuk Park (University of Richmond)</li>
<li>Ji Ho Park (Oyalabs)</li>
<li>Yannick Parmentier (University of Lorraine)</li>
<li>Carla Parra Escartín (ADAPT Centre / Dublin City University)</li>
<li>Md Rizwan Parvez (UCLA)</li>
<li>Katerina Pastra (COGNITIVE SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE)</li>
<li>Ramakanth Pasunuru (UNC Chapel Hill)</li>
<li>Panupong Pasupat (Stanford University)</li>
<li>Roma Patel (Brown University)</li>
<li>Olga Patterson (University of Utah)</li>
<li>Viviana Patti (University of Turin, Dipartimento di Informatica)</li>
<li>Siddharth Patwardhan (Apple)</li>
<li>Romain Paulus (Salesforce Research)</li>
<li>Umashanthi Pavalanathan (Georgia Institute of Technology)</li>
<li>Ellie Pavlick (Brown University)</li>
<li>Sachin Pawar (Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.)</li>
<li>Haiyun Peng (School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University)</li>
<li>Nanyun Peng (University of Southern California)</li>
<li>Haoruo Peng (UIUC)</li>
<li>Jing Peng (Montclair State University)</li>
<li>Gerald Penn (University of Toronto)</li>
<li>Laura Perez-Beltrachini (School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh)</li>
<li>Matthew Peters (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)</li>
<li>Slav Petrov (Google)</li>
<li>Maxime Peyrard (EPFL)</li>
<li>Scott Piao (School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University)</li>
<li>Karl Pichotta (Google)</li>
<li>Ildiko Pilan (Develop Diverse)</li>
<li>Mohammad Taher Pilehvar (University of Cambridge)</li>
<li>Tiago Pimentel (Kunumi)</li>
<li>Mārcis Pinnis (Tilde)</li>
<li>Yuval Pinter (Georgia Institute of Technology)</li>
<li>Florina Piroi (TU Wien)</li>
<li>Emily Pitler (Google, Inc.)</li>
<li>Lidia Pivovarova (University of Helsinki)</li>
<li>Barbara Plank (IT University of Copenhagen)</li>
<li>Lahari Poddar (National University of Singapore)</li>
<li>Massimo Poesio (Queen Mary University of London)</li>
<li>Adam Poliak (Johns Hopkins University)</li>
<li>Heather Pon-Barry (Mount Holyoke College)</li>
<li>Edoardo Maria Ponti (University of Cambridge)</li>
<li>Simone Paolo Ponzetto (University of Mannheim)</li>
<li>Hoifung Poon (Microsoft Research)</li>
<li>Andrei Popescu-Belis (HEIG-VD / HES-SO)</li>
<li>Maja Popović (ADAPT Centre @ DCU)</li>
<li>Alexandros Potamianos (National Technical University of Athens)</li>
<li>Peter Potash (Microsoft Research Montreal)</li>
<li>Martin Potthast (Leipzig University)</li>
<li>Vinodkumar Prabhakaran (Google)</li>
<li>Shrimai Prabhumoye (Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Sameer Pradhan (cemantix.org and Vassar College)</li>
<li>Judita Preiss (University of Salford)</li>
<li>Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro (Bloomberg)</li>
<li>Emily Prud'hommeaux (Boston College)</li>
<li>Danish Pruthi (Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Reid Pryzant (Stanford University)</li>
<li>Adam Przepiórkowski (Institute of Computer Science at the Polish Academy of Sciences)</li>
<li>Ratish Puduppully (University of Edinburgh)</li>
<li>Robert Pugh (Educational Testing Service)</li>
<li>Rajkumar Pujari (purdue.edu)</li>
<li>Avinesh PVS (UKP Lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt)</li>
<li>Ashequl Qadir (Philips Research North America)</li>
<li>Peng Qi (Stanford University)</li>
<li>Yao Qian (Educational Testing Service)</li>
<li>Yujie Qian (MIT)</li>
<li>Likun Qiu (Ludong University)</li>
<li>Xipeng Qiu (Fudan University)</li>
<li>Lizhen Qu (Data61)</li>
<li>Chris Quirk (Microsoft Research)</li>
<li>Ella Rabinovich (University of Toronto)</li>
<li>Alexandre Rademaker (IBM Research and EMAp/FGV)</li>
<li>Will Radford (Canva)</li>
<li>Vipul Raheja (Grammarly)</li>
<li>Afshin Rahimi (The University of Melbourne)</li>
<li>Dheeraj Rajagopal (Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Nazneen Fatema Rajani (Salesforce Research)</li>
<li>Taraka Rama (University of Oslo)</li>
<li>Anil Ramakrishna (University of Southern California)</li>
<li>Gabriela Ramirez-de-la-Rosa (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana)</li>
<li>Nitin Ramrakhiyani (Tata Research Development and Design Centre, Tata Consultancy Services Limited)</li>
<li>FRANCISCO MANUEL RANGEL PARDO (Universitat Politècnica de València)</li>
<li>Aarne Ranta (University of Gothenburg)</li>
<li>Sudha Rao (University Of Maryland, College Park)</li>
<li>Farzana Rashid (University of North Texas)</li>
<li>Hannah Rashkin (University of Washington)</li>
<li>Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli (Facebook)</li>
<li>Abhilasha Ravichander (Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Vinit Ravishankar (University of Oslo)</li>
<li>Julia Rayz (Purdue University)</li>
<li>Simon Razniewski (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)</li>
<li>Livy Real (São Paulo University - B2W Labs)</li>
<li>Marta Recasens (Google)</li>
<li>Lena Reed (University of California, Santa Cruz)</li>
<li>Georg Rehm (DFKI)</li>
<li>Marek Rei (University of Cambridge)</li>
<li>Ehud Reiter (University of Aberdeen)</li>
<li>Steffen Remus (Hamburg University)</li>
<li>Shuo Ren (Beihang University)</li>
<li>Xiang Ren (University of Southern California)</li>
<li>Rezvaneh Rezapour (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)</li>
<li>Frank Richter (Goethe Universität Frankfurt)</li>
<li>Mark Riedl (Georgia Institute of Technology)</li>
<li>Laura Rimell (DeepMind)</li>
<li>Ruty Rinott (Facebook)</li>
<li>Alan Ritter (The Ohio State University)</li>
<li>Kirk Roberts (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston)</li>
<li>Gil Rocha (University of Porto)</li>
<li>Melissa Roemmele (SDL)</li>
<li>Anna Rogers (University of Massachusets Lowell)</li>
<li>Anna Rohrbach (UC Berkeley)</li>
<li>Lina M. Rojas Barahona (Orange Labs)</li>
<li>Oleg Rokhlenko (Amazon Research)</li>
<li>Stephen Roller (Facebook)</li>
<li>Alexey Romanov (UMass Lowell)</li>
<li>Salvatore Romeo (Qatar Computing Research Institute - HBKU)</li>
<li>Marc-Antoine Rondeau (Microsoft Research)</li>
<li>Amirmohammad Rooshenas (University of Massachusetts Amherst)</li>
<li>Rudolf Rosa (Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics)</li>
<li>Andrew Rosenberg (Google LLC)</li>
<li>Benjamin Roth (LMU Munich)</li>
<li>Michael Roth (Stuttgart University)</li>
<li>Sascha Rothe (Google)</li>
<li>Masoud Rouhizadeh (Johns Hopkins University)</li>
<li>Salim Roukos (IBM)</li>
<li>Bryan Routledge (Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Dwaipayan Roy (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata)</li>
<li>Alla Rozovskaya (City University of New York)</li>
<li>Yu-Ping Ruan (University of Science and Technology of China)</li>
<li>Sebastian Ruder (National University of Ireland, Galway)</li>
<li>Rachel Rudinger (Johns Hopkins University)</li>
<li>Frank Rudzicz (St Michael's Hospital; University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science)</li>
<li>Attapol Rutherford (Chulalongkorn University)</li>
<li>Derek Ruths (McGill University)</li>
<li>Neville Ryant (Linguistic Data Consortium)</li>
<li>Andreas Rücklé (UKP Lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt)</li>
<li>Mrinmaya Sachan (Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Devendra Sachan (CMU / Petuum Inc.)</li>
<li>Fatiha Sadat (UQAM)</li>
<li>Marzieh Saeidi (Facebook)</li>
<li>Saeid Safavi (University of Surrey)</li>
<li>Kenji Sagae (University of California, Davis)</li>
<li>Horacio Saggion (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)</li>
<li>Benoît Sagot (Inria)</li>
<li>Rishiraj Saha Roy (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)</li>
<li>Navanath Saharia (IIIT Manipur)</li>
<li>Sunil Kumar Sahu (University of Manchester)</li>
<li>Manfred Sailer (Goethe University Frankfurt a.M.)</li>
<li>Keisuke Sakaguchi (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)</li>
<li>Iman Saleh (Cairo University, Faculty of Computers and Information)</li>
<li>Bahar Salehi (The University of Melbourne)</li>
<li>Sylvain Salvati (Université de Lille)</li>
<li>Ramon Sanabria (Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Ivan Sanchez (Lenovo)</li>
<li>Karthik Sankaranarayanan (IBM Reseach)</li>
<li>Enrico Santus (MIT)</li>
<li>Maarten Sap (University of Washington)</li>
<li>Elvis Saravia (National Tsing Hua University)</li>
<li>Ruhi Sarikaya (Amazon)</li>
<li>Himangshu Sarma (Indian Institute of Information Technology Senapati, Manipur)</li>
<li>Hassan Sawaf (Amazon AWS)</li>
<li>Carolina Scarton (University of Sheffield)</li>
<li>Jonathan Schler (HIT)</li>
<li>Helmut Schmid (CIS, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität)</li>
<li>Martin Schmitt (Center for Information and Language Processing, LMU Munich)</li>
<li>Sylvain Schmitz (ENS Paris-Saclay)</li>
<li>Nathan Schneider (Georgetown University)</li>
<li>Sabine Schulte im Walde (University of Stuttgart)</li>
<li>Anne-Kathrin Schumann (ProTechnology GmbH)</li>
<li>Lane Schwartz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)</li>
<li>Roy Schwartz (University of Washington and The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)</li>
<li>Holger Schwenk (Facebook AI Research)</li>
<li>Djamé Seddah (Université Paris Sorbonne (Paris IV))</li>
<li>Satoshi Sekine (Riken, AIP)</li>
<li>Ethan Selfridge (Interactions Corp)</li>
<li>Shubhashis Sengupta (Accenture Technology Labs)</li>
<li>Rico Sennrich (University of Edinburgh)</li>
<li>Minjoon Seo (University of Washington)</li>
<li>Fei Sha (U of Southern California)</li>
<li>Pararth Shah (Facebook Conversational AI)</li>
<li>Samira Shaikh (UNC - Charlotte)</li>
<li>Jingbo Shang (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)</li>
<li>Pamela Shapiro (Johns Hopkins University)</li>
<li>Raksha Sharma (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)</li>
<li>Shikhar Sharma (Microsoft Research)</li>
<li>Dinghan Shen (Duke University)</li>
<li>Yilin Shen (Samsung Research America)</li>
<li>Wei Shi (Saarland University)</li>
<li>Xing Shi (University of Southern California)</li>
<li>Tomohide Shibata (Kyoto University)</li>
<li>Manish Shrivastava (International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad)</li>
<li>Vered Shwartz (Bar-Ilan University)</li>
<li>Gerardo Sierra Martínez (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)</li>
<li>Miikka Silfverberg (University of Helsinki)</li>
<li>Fabrizio Silvestri (Facebook AML)</li>
<li>Khalil Simaan (ILLC, University of Amsterdam)</li>
<li>Patrick Simianer (Lilt, Inc.)</li>
<li>Kiril Simov (Linguistic Modeling Department, IICT-BAS)</li>
<li>Abhishek Singh (UNT)</li>
<li>Gaurav Singh (UCL, LONDON, UK)</li>
<li>Kairit Sirts (University of Tartu)</li>
<li>Gabriel Skantze (KTH Speech Music and Hearing)</li>
<li>Kevin Small (Amazon)</li>
<li>Parinaz Sobhani (Director of Machine Learning- Georgian Partners)</li>
<li>Linfeng Song (University of Rochester)</li>
<li>Sandeep Soni (Georgia Institute of Technology)</li>
<li>Radu Soricut (Google Inc)</li>
<li>Irena Spasic (Cardiff University)</li>
<li>Lucia Specia (Imperial College London)</li>
<li>Matthias Sperber (Apple)</li>
<li>Damiano Spina (RMIT University)</li>
<li>Caroline Sporleder (Goettingen University)</li>
<li>Vivek Srikumar (University of Utah)</li>
<li>Felix Stahlberg (University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering)</li>
<li>Efstathios Stamatatos (University of the Aegean)</li>
<li>Miloš Stanojević (University of Edinburgh)</li>
<li>Gabriel Stanovsky (University of Washington, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)</li>
<li>Manfred Stede (University of Potsdam)</li>
<li>Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh)</li>
<li>Amanda Stent (Bloomberg)</li>
<li>Mark Stevenson (University of Sheffield)</li>
<li>Ian Stewart (Georgia Institute of Technology)</li>
<li>Svetlana Stoyanchev (Interactions Corporation)</li>
<li>Veselin Stoyanov (Facebook)</li>
<li>Carlo Strapparava (FBK-irst)</li>
<li>Kristina Striegnitz (Union College)</li>
<li>Amber Stubbs (Simmons University)</li>
<li>Hang Su (Facebook Inc.)</li>
<li>Yu Su (The Ohio State University)</li>
<li>Shivashankar Subramanian (University of Melbourne)</li>
<li>David Suendermann-Oeft (ETS)</li>
<li>Alane Suhr (Cornell University)</li>
<li>Maria Sukhareva (BMW Group)</li>
<li>Md Arafat Sultan (IBM Research AI)</li>
<li>Huan Sun (The Ohio State University)</li>
<li>Kai Sun (Cornell University)</li>
<li>Weiyi Sun (Nuance Communication Inc)</li>
<li>Weiwei Sun (Peking University)</li>
<li>Xu SUN (Peking University)</li>
<li>Yibo Sun (Harbin Institute of Technology)</li>
<li>Mihai Surdeanu (University of Arizona)</li>
<li>Simon Suster (University of Antwerp)</li>
<li>Jun Suzuki (Tohoku University / NTT Communication Science Laboratories / RIKEN Center for AIP)</li>
<li>Swabha Swayamdipta (Carnegie Mellon University; University of Washington)</li>
<li>György Szarvas (Amazon Development Center Germany GmbH)</li>
<li>Stan Szpakowicz (EECS, University of Ottawa)</li>
<li>Alon Talmor (Tel Aviv University)</li>
<li>Hao Tan (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)</li>
<li>Duyu Tang (Microsoft Research Asia)</li>
<li>Jiliang Tang (Michigan State University)</li>
<li>Jiliang Tang (Michigan State University)</li>
<li>Yi Tay (Nanyang Technological University)</li>
<li>Christoph Teichmann (Saarland University)</li>
<li>Eric Tellez (CONACyT-INFOTEC)</li>
<li>Nedelina Teneva (Amazon)</li>
<li>Nithum Thain (Jigsaw / Google)</li>
<li>Patricia Thaine (University of Toronto)</li>
<li>Mariët Theune (University of Twente)</li>
<li>Jesse Thomason (University of Washington)</li>
<li>Sam Thomson (Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>James Thorne (University of Cambridge)</li>
<li>Ran Tian (AI Research Center, AIST)</li>
<li>Jörg Tiedemann (University of Helsinki)</li>
<li>Christoph Tillmann (IBM Research)</li>
<li>Erik Tjong Kim Sang (Netherlands eScience Center)</li>
<li>Sara Tonelli (FBK)</li>
<li>Mariya Toneva (Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Fatemeh Torabi Asr (Simon Fraser University)</li>
<li>Manabu Torii (Kaiser Permanente Southern California)</li>
<li>Kentaro Torisawa (NICT)</li>
<li>Samia Touileb (University of Oslo)</li>
<li>Julien Tourille (LIMSI, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay)</li>
<li>Trang Tran (University of Washington)</li>
<li>Diana Trandabat (University Alexandru Ioan Cuza of Iasi, Romania)</li>
<li>Chen-Tse Tsai (Bloomberg LP)</li>
<li>Reut Tsarfaty (Open University of Israel)</li>
<li>Michael Tschuggnall (Department of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck)</li>
<li>Yoshimasa Tsuruoka (University of Tokyo)</li>
<li>Kewei Tu (ShanghaiTech University)</li>
<li>Lifu Tu (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago)</li>
<li>Gokhan Tur (Uber)</li>
<li>Rutuja Ubale (Educational Testing Service)</li>
<li>Nicola Ueffing (eBay)</li>
<li>Dmitry Ustalov (University of Mannheim)</li>
<li>Ozlem Uzuner (George Mason University)</li>
<li>Naushad UzZaman (Nuance Communications)</li>
<li>Preethi Vaidyanathan (LC Technologies & Rochester Institute of Technology)</li>
<li>Sowmya Vajjala (National Research Council)</li>
<li>Svitlana Vakulenko (Vienna University of Economics and Business)</li>
<li>Andreas van Cranenburgh (University of Groningen)</li>
<li>Esther van den Berg (Heidelberg University)</li>
<li>Rob van der Goot (University of Groningen)</li>
<li>Benjamin Van Durme (JHU)</li>
<li>Emiel van Miltenburg (Tilburg University)</li>
<li>Menno van Zaanen (Tilburg University)</li>
<li>Clara Vania (University of Edinburgh)</li>
<li>Aparna Varde (Dept. of ComputerScience)</li>
<li>Vasudeva Varma (IIIT Hyderabad)</li>
<li>Alakananda Vempala (University Of North Texas)</li>
<li>Suzan Verberne (LIACS)</li>
<li>Patrick Verga (UMass Amherst)</li>
<li>Rakesh Verma (University of Houston)</li>
<li>Manisha Verma (Oath inc)</li>
<li>David Vilar (Amazon Research)</li>
<li>David Vilares (Universidade da Coruña)</li>
<li>Martin Villalba (Universität des Saarlandes)</li>
<li>Esau Villatoro-Tello (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Cuajimalpa)</li>
<li>Aline Villavicencio (University of Essex, UK)</li>
<li>Veronika Vincze (University of Szeged)</li>
<li>Harit Vishwakarma (IBM Research)</li>
<li>Andreas Vlachos (University of Cambridge)</li>
<li>Rob Voigt (Stanford University)</li>
<li>Svitlana Volkova (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)</li>
<li>Nikos Voskarides (University of Amsterdam)</li>
<li>Ngoc Thang Vu (University of Stuttgart)</li>
<li>Thuy Vu (Amazon)</li>
<li>Ivan Vulić (University of Cambridge)</li>
<li>Yogarshi Vyas (University of Maryland)</li>
<li>Ekaterina Vylomova (University of Melbourne)</li>
<li>Henning Wachsmuth (Paderborn University)</li>
<li>Joachim Wagner (ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University)</li>
<li>Xiaojun Wan (Peking University)</li>
<li>Cheng Wang (NEC Laboratories Europe)</li>
<li>Di Wang (School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Wenya Wang (Nanyang Technological University)</li>
<li>Jinpeng Wang (Microsoft Research, Beijing, China)</li>
<li>Lu Wang (Northeastern University)</li>
<li>Wenlin Wang (Duke University)</li>
<li>Shuai Wang (University of Illinois at Chicago)</li>
<li>Shuohang Wang (Singapore Management University)</li>
<li>Yequan Wang (Tsinghua University)</li>
<li>Tianlu Wang (University of Virginia)</li>
<li>Tong Wang (Microsoft Research Montreal)</li>
<li>Pidong Wang (Machine Zone Inc.)</li>
<li>Qingyun Wang (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)</li>
<li>Rui Wang (NICT)</li>
<li>Wei Wang (Google Research)</li>
<li>Xing Wang (Tencent AI Lab)</li>
<li>Zhongqing Wang (Soochow University)</li>
<li>Dingquan Wang (Johns Hopkins University)</li>
<li>Longyue Wang (Tencent AI Lab)</li>
<li>Wen Wang (Alibaba Group)</li>
<li>Xin Wang (University of California, Santa Barbara)</li>
<li>Yong Wang (The University of Hong Kong)</li>
<li>Ziqi Wang (Facebook)</li>
<li>Leo Wanner (ICREA and Pompeu Fabra University)</li>
<li>Jakub Waszczuk (University of Duesseldorf)</li>
<li>Taro Watanabe (Google)</li>
<li>Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh)</li>
<li>Ingmar Weber (Qatar Computing Research Institute)</li>
<li>Furu Wei (Microsoft Research Asia)</li>
<li>Johannes Welbl (University College London)</li>
<li>Michael White (The Ohio State University)</li>
<li>Spencer Whitehead (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)</li>
<li>Michael Wiegand (Institute for German Language/Heidelberg University)</li>
<li>John Wieting (University of Illinois; TTI-Chicago; CMU)</li>
<li>Derry Tanti Wijaya (Boston University)</li>
<li>Graham Wilcock (CDM Interact Oy)</li>
<li>Adina Williams (Facebook, Inc.)</li>
<li>Colin Wilson (Johns Hopkins University)</li>
<li>Shomir Wilson (Pennsylvania State University)</li>
<li>Steven Wilson (University of Michigan)</li>
<li>Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa)</li>
<li>Sam Wiseman (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago)</li>
<li>Guillaume Wisniewski (Université Paris Sud and LIMSI)</li>
<li>Michael Wojatzki (Language Technology Lab, University of Duisburg-Essen)</li>
<li>Marcin Woliński (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences)</li>
<li>Kam-Fai Wong (Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)</li>
<li>Alina Wróblewska (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences)</li>
<li>Yuexin Wu (Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Stephen Wu (UTHealth)</li>
<li>Chien-Sheng Wu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)</li>
<li>Qi Wu (University of Adelaide)</li>
<li>Lingfei Wu (IBM Research AI)</li>
<li>Jiawei Wu (UC Santa Barbara)</li>
<li>Shijie Wu (Johns Hopkins University)</li>
<li>Fangzhao Wu (Microsoft Research Asia)</li>
<li>Joern Wuebker (Lilt, Inc.)</li>
<li>Dirk Wulff (University of Basel)</li>
<li>Rui Xia (Nanjing University of Science and Technology)</li>
<li>Tong Xiao (Northestern University)</li>
<li>Qizhe Xie (CMU)</li>
<li>Shasha Xie (Tencent)</li>
<li>Ruobing Xie (Search Product Center, WeChat Search Application Department, Tencent, China)</li>
<li>Caiming Xiong (Salesforce)</li>
<li>Wenhan Xiong (University of California, Santa Barbara)</li>
<li>Hu Xu (University of Illinois at Chicago)</li>
<li>Chenliang Xu (University of Rochester)</li>
<li>Huijuan Xu (University of California, Berkeley)</li>
<li>Ruochen Xu (Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Jiacheng Xu (University of Texas at Austin)</li>
<li>Kun Xu (Tencent AI Lab)</li>
<li>Tan Xu (AT&T)</li>
<li>Shweta Yadav (Indian Institute of Technology Patna)</li>
<li>Semih Yagcioglu (Hacettepe University, STM)</li>
<li>Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh (Microsoft Research Montreal)</li>
<li>Mohamed Yahya (Bloomberg L.P.)</li>
<li>Rui Yan (Peking University)</li>
<li>Zhao Yan (Tencent)</li>
<li>Kevin Yancey (Duolingo & Waseda University)</li>
<li>Victoria Yaneva (University of Wolverhampton)</li>
<li>Bishan Yang (Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Jie Yang (Harvard University)</li>
<li>Zhilin Yang (Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Qian Yang (Duke University)</li>
<li>Chao Yang (Amazon)</li>
<li>Baosong Yang (NLP2CT Lab, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Macau)</li>
<li>Yi Yang (ASAPP)</li>
<li>Zhaojun Yang (Facebook Inc)</li>
<li>Weiwei Yang (University of Maryland)</li>
<li>Zi Yang (Google)</li>
<li>Helen Yannakoudakis (University of Cambridge)</li>
<li>Wenlin Yao (Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University)</li>
<li>Jin-ge Yao (Peking University)</li>
<li>Mahsa Yarmohammadi (Johns Hopkins University)</li>
<li>Andrew Yates (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)</li>
<li>Ainur Yessenalina (Amazon)</li>
<li>Seid Muhie Yimam (Universität Hamburg)</li>
<li>Pengcheng Yin (Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Seunghyun Yoon (Seoul National University)</li>
<li>Naoki Yoshinaga (Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo)</li>
<li>Dian Yu (Tencent AI Lab)</li>
<li>Jianfei Yu (Singapore Management University)</li>
<li>Liang-Chih Yu (Yuan Ze University)</li>
<li>Tao Yu (Yale University)</li>
<li>Xingdi Yuan (Microsoft Research)</li>
<li>Zheng Yuan (University of Cambridge)</li>
<li>Hyokun Yun (Amazon)</li>
<li>Frances Yung (Saarland University)</li>
<li>François Yvon (LIMSI/CNRS)</li>
<li>Hamed Zamani (University of Massachusetts Amherst)</li>
<li>Marcos Zampieri (University of Wolverhampton)</li>
<li>Fabio Massimo Zanzotto (University of Rome Tor Vergata)</li>
<li>Guido Zarrella (The MITRE Corporation)</li>
<li>Sina Zarrieß (University of Bielefeld)</li>
<li>Fattane Zarrinkalam (Ryerson university)</li>
<li>Rabih Zbib (Raytheon BBN Technologies)</li>
<li>Rowan Zellers (University of Washington)</li>
<li>Luke Zettlemoyer (University of Washington)</li>
<li>Zhe Zhang (IBM Watson)</li>
<li>Tongtao Zhang (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)</li>
<li>Jiajun Zhang (Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences)</li>
<li>Justine Zhang (Cornell University)</li>
<li>Qi Zhang (Fudan University)</li>
<li>Meishan Zhang (Heilongjiang University, China)</li>
<li>Rui Zhang (Yale University)</li>
<li>Sheng Zhang (Johns Hopkins University)</li>
<li>Xingxing Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia)</li>
<li>Ye Zhang (University of Texas at Austin)</li>
<li>Yizhe Zhang (Microsoft)</li>
<li>Yuhao Zhang (Stanford University)</li>
<li>Yu Zhang (HKUST)</li>
<li>Yi Zhang (Amazon AI)</li>
<li>Shuo Zhang (Bose Corporation)</li>
<li>Boliang Zhang (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institue)</li>
<li>Bowen Zhang (University of Southern California)</li>
<li>Rui Zhang (University of Minnesota)</li>
<li>Zhirui Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China)</li>
<li>Wei Zhao (TU Darmstadt)</li>
<li>Jieyu Zhao (University of California, Los Angeles)</li>
<li>Tiancheng Zhao (Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University)</li>
<li>Guoqing Zheng (Microsoft Research)</li>
<li>Kai Zhong (Amazon)</li>
<li>Victor Zhong (University of Washington)</li>
<li>Guangyou Zhou (Central China Normal University)</li>
<li>Li Zhou (Amazon)</li>
<li>Qingyu Zhou (Harbin Institute of Technology)</li>
<li>Ming Zhou (microsoft research asia)</li>
<li>Dong Zhou (Hunan University of Science and Technology)</li>
<li>Hao Zhu (Tsinghua University)</li>
<li>Ayah Zirikly (National Institutes of Health)</li>
<li>Markus Zopf (Technische Universität Darmstadt)</li>
<li>Arkaitz Zubiaga (Queen Mary University of London)</li>
<li>Çağrı Çöltekin (University of Tübingen)</li>
<li>Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha (Apple)</li>
<li>Emily Öhman (University of Helsinki)</li>
<li>Arzucan Özgür (Bogazici University)</li>
<li>Lilja Øvrelid (Dept of Informatics, University of Oslo)</li>
<li>Sanja Štajner (Symanto Research)</li>
<li>Zdeněk Žabokrtský (Charles University)</li>
</ul>Program Co-Chairsnaacl-2019-program-chairs@googlegroups.comA big thanks to all the reviewers.A Proactive Approach to Disability Access2019-04-11T00:00:00+00:002019-04-11T00:00:00+00:00/blog/disability-access<p>As an NLP community, we have generally been a welcoming bunch with good intentions. This year the ACL Office and NAACL 2019’s <a href="/blog/introducing-the-diversity-and-inclusion-committee/">Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Committee</a> will back up their good intentions with a new approach to disability accommodations. As Rachel Dawes said in <em>Batman Begins</em>, “It’s not who we are, but what we do, that defines us.”</p>
<p>Our mission is to to make sure that anyone even considering attending the conference knows that they can request accommodations (via <a href="https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=t-mmC7Ngrk-S835t3Z6bZaQKPumvKxxDqgDQK1a8-MVURElBVEc4MElLRDZPUTZXTEtRUkNSVzJCUy4u">this form</a>).</p>
<p>First, we all know researchers who attend without requesting the accommodations they need, and so do not receive the full benefit of the conference. For example, a few years ago, one attendee could not fully hear the talks and questions. Instead, they relied on the presentation slides and PDF proceedings.</p>
<p>Second, some researchers decide not to attend at all because of accessibility woes at past conferences. As they also do not request accommodations, they do not appear on NAACL’s radar screen. They miss out on the opportunities afforded by attending the conference, and the field suffers from losing out on their diverse perspectives.</p>
<p>This year, we’re hoping to offer the following accommodations, among any others that are requested:</p>
<ul>
<li>Dedicated seating for the vision-impaired or to improve physical access</li>
<li>Captioning of talks for the hearing-impaired</li>
<li>Aides to assist attendees with mobility or other issues in navigating the conference venue</li>
<li>Quiet areas to escape the noise and intensity of the conference</li>
</ul>
<p>A significant benefit of language technology is that it can make the world of language available to those who have not had full access in the past, for example due to impaired hearing or vision. It is important that potential <em>users</em> of these technologies can participate fully in our conferences and contribute to language technology research. No one should be left out in the cold, unable to participate despite their passion for computational linguistics.</p>
<p>We invite everyone to join us in Minneapolis at NAACL 2019, and hope to see you there! Again, the special requests form is <a href="https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=t-mmC7Ngrk-S835t3Z6bZaQKPumvKxxDqgDQK1a8-MVURElBVEc4MElLRDZPUTZXTEtRUkNSVzJCUy4u">here</a>. If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to reach out via <a href="mailto:naacl2019-diversity-inclusion-chairs@googlegroups.com">naacl2019-diversity-inclusion-chairs@googlegroups.com</a>.</p>Diversity & Inclusion Committee – Disability Accessnaacl2019-diversity-inclusion-chairs@googlegroups.comIntroducing a new approach to disability accommodations.Best Paper Awards2019-04-10T00:00:00+00:002019-04-10T00:00:00+00:00/blog/best-papers<p>We have an excellent set of best paper awards at NAACL this year. Candidate papers were nominated by reviewers, using the review form, by Program Chairs and/or Area Chairs. A Best Paper Committee then reviewed all candidate papers. Here are the winners:</p>
<p><strong>Best Thematic Paper</strong><br />
<em>What’s in a Name? Reducing Bias in Bios Without Access to Protected Attributes</em><br />
Alexey Romanov, Maria De-Arteaga, Hanna Wallach, Jennifer Chayes, Christian Borgs, Alexandra Chouldechova, Sahin Geyik, Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Anna Rumshisky and Adam Kalai</p>
<p><strong>Best Explainable NLP Paper</strong><br />
<em>CNM: An Interpretable Complex-valued Network for Matching</em><br />
Qiuchi Li, Benyou Wang and Massimo Melucci</p>
<p><strong>Best Long Paper</strong><br />
<em>BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding</em><br />
Jacob Devlin, Ming-Wei Chang, Kenton Lee and Kristina Toutanova</p>
<p><strong>Best Short Paper</strong><br />
<em>Probing the Need for Visual Context in Multimodal Machine Translation</em><br />
Ozan Caglayan, Pranava Madhyastha, Lucia Specia and Loïc Barrault</p>
<p><strong>Best Resource Paper</strong><br />
<em>CommonsenseQA: A Question Answering Challenge Targeting Commonsense Knowledge</em><br />
Alon Talmor, Jonathan Herzig, Nicholas Lourie and Jonathan Berant</p>
<p>We want to thank the members of our diligent Best Paper Committee who helped us in selecting these outstanding papers:</p>
<ul>
<li>Źeljko Agić</li>
<li>Isabelle Augenstein</li>
<li>Ebrahim Bagheri</li>
<li>Christos Christodoulopoulos</li>
<li>Gerard de Melo</li>
<li>Anna Feldman</li>
<li>Zornitsa Kozareva</li>
<li>Saif Mohammad</li>
<li>Alessandro Moschitti</li>
<li>Preslav Nakov</li>
<li>Anna Rumshisky</li>
<li>Agata Savary</li>
<li>Avi Sil</li>
<li>Chenhao Tan</li>
<li>Emily Prud’hommeaux</li>
</ul>
<p>Congratulations to the authors of these papers!</p>Program Co-Chairsnaacl-2019-program-chairs@googlegroups.comBest Paper Awards for NAACL 2019.Careers in NLP Panel @ NAACL-HLT 20192019-03-30T00:00:00+00:002019-03-30T00:00:00+00:00/blog/careers-panel-survey<p>Are you a graduate student baffled by the many possible NLP careers that lie in front of you? Perhaps you are an advisor who wants to help their students navigate the modern NLP world? Or maybe you’re just curious about the options?</p>
<p>Following last year’s well received <a href="http://naacl2018.org/industry.html">“Careers in Industry” panel at NAACL 2018</a>, NAACL-HLT 2019 will feature a similarly themed panel discussion on “Careers in NLP”. To keep the panel discussion relevant and interesting to the audience, we invite you to fill out a <a href="https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=DQSIkWdsW0yxEjajBLZtrQAAAAAAAAAAAANAAYLQFrZUM0hRWUlPMzhKMUJRVlRRNFozN0ZOOE1OMS4u">survey</a>. Please complete this survey to share the questions and topics you would like to see included in the panel discussion.</p>
<p>Stay tuned for more information about the panel and the list of panelists.</p>
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<a href="https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=DQSIkWdsW0yxEjajBLZtrQAAAAAAAAAAAANAAYLQFrZUM0hRWUlPMzhKMUJRVlRRNFozN0ZOOE1OMS4u" target="_blank" class="btn btn--primary">Fill Career Panel Survey</a>
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<p><br /></p>Industry Track Co-Chairsnaacl-2019-industry-track@googlegroups.comComplete a survey to share your questions with the panelists.Why Pronouns?2019-03-13T00:00:00+00:002019-03-13T00:00:00+00:00/blog/why-pronouns<p>This year at NAACL, we are asking for information about your pronouns on
the registration form because we think this is an important aspect of
being an inclusive community. Since we are one of the first conferences
to make pronouns a printed portion of the conference badge, this may
feel like a major change, so we are using this blog post to elaborate on
our reasoning and explain the importance of using someone’s <em>stated</em>
pronouns when talking about them.</p>
<p><a href="/assets/images/pronoun-blog/badge.png"><img class="align-right" alt="example badge with pronouns" title="click to zoom" src="/assets/images/pronoun-blog/badge-thumbnail.png" /></a></p>
<p>The reason for including pronouns on your badge is to ensure that
everyone is referred to appropriately. Just as everyone has a name,
everyone has pronouns. For me personally, I use the pronouns she/her and
I would be hurt if someone used pronouns like he/him to refer to me.
Using the wrong pronouns is just like calling someone the wrong name –
I would also feel hurt if someone called me “Alex” even though I go by
Cassie. The general idea is, it’s unreasonable to expect you to know my
name and pronouns if we’ve just met, so they appear on my badge (click to zoom) to help you out.</p>
<p><a href="/assets/images/pronoun-blog/comicpage.png"><img class="align-left" alt="comic page illustrating pronouns" title="click to zoom" src="/assets/images/pronoun-blog/comicpage-thumbnail.png" /></a></p>
<p>You can’t necessarily tell from someone’s appearance or name what
pronouns they use. A person who <em>appears</em> feminine to you might actually
use he/him or they/them pronouns (or something else like xe/xir). You
may even meet people at the conference whose pronouns have changed since
you met them last year; do your best to use the pronouns they have on
their badge even if you remember using other pronouns with them in the
past.</p>
<p>All this might seem unfamiliar, but it is important to accept a person’s
pronouns as a matter of respect. By making a conscious effort to use the
pronouns provided on badges, you can help make the conference more
inclusive. Keep in mind that you are not owed an explanation as to why a
person uses the pronouns they do. If you’re ever unsure, you can ask the
other person, “What pronouns do you use?”</p>
<p>To sum up, please respect others at NAACL by using the pronouns they
want you to use when referring to them. By adding pronoun information to
badges, we hope to take the guesswork out of pronoun use and ensure that
everyone is referred to the way they want to be referred to.</p>
<p>At the registration desk when you pick up your badge, there will be a
copy of a wonderful <a href="https://onipress.com/products/a-quick-easy-guide-to-they-them-pronouns">illustrated book by Archie Bongiovanni and Tristan
Jimerson</a>
that discusses the hows and whys of pronoun use. There is also a wealth
of linguistics research on personal pronouns, including work by <a href="https://medium.com/@kconrod/how-to-do-the-absolute-minimum-with-pronouns-9be0eef5ff62">Kirby
Conrod</a>,
who helped enormously in the framing of this post.</p>Cassandra L. Jacobsjacobs dot cassandra dot l at gmail dot comhttps://cljacobs.netThis year at NAACL, pronouns matter for inclusion.In Memory of Jan Wiebe2019-03-12T00:00:00+00:002019-03-12T00:00:00+00:00/blog/in-memory-of-jan-wiebe<figure class="">
<img src="/assets/images/janwiebe.jpg" alt="Jan Wiebe" />
<figcaption>
Janyce Wiebe at EACL 2014 (April 29) in Gothenburg, Sweden. Photo source: Graeme Hirst.
</figcaption></figure>
<p><em>(With valuable contributions from Diane Litman, Claire Cardie, Ellen Riloff, Owen Rambow, Marilyn Walker, Graeme Hirst, Rebecca Bruce, Rebecca Hwa, Swapna Somasundaran, Lingjia Deng, and Rev. Dr. Matthew Bell)</em></p>
<h2 id="remembering-jan-wiebe">Remembering Jan Wiebe</h2>
<p>Janyce Wiebe – known by her friends and colleagues as “Jan” – was a Professor of Computer Science and the former director of the Intelligent Systems Program at University of Pittsburgh, and a fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics. She was an expert in the areas of opinion analysis, discourse processing, pragmatics, and word-sense disambiguation. She was one of the first to carry out research on methodology in text annotation, just in time for the rapid rise in the need for text annotation for supervised learning methods. She was a pioneer in the research area of “subjectivity analysis” – recognizing and interpreting expressions of opinions and sentiments in text, to support NLP applications such as question answering, information extraction, text categorization, and summarization.</p>
<p>Jan received her PhD in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and later was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto. Jan’s early research, in her dissertation at the State University of New York, Buffalo (1985–89) and postdoctoral years at the University of Toronto (1989–92), was on algorithms for tracking point of view in narrative. It was a unique bridge between philosophical approaches to belief contexts and empirical studies of how people actually comprehend discourse structure. In later years, she applied some of these ideas in methods for searching on the Web for expressions of opinion, and in distinguishing expressions of opinion from expressions of fact.</p>
<p>In 1992, Jan assumed an Assistant Professor position at New Mexico State University, where she stayed until 2000, when she moved to become an Associate Professor, and later Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Shortly after joining Pitt, Jan received a secondary faculty appointment in the Intelligent Systems Program (ISP), an interdisciplinary PhD-granting program focused on applied Artificial Intelligence. Soon thereafter, Jan in addition took on a major ISP administrative and leadership role, serving as co-Director from 2002-2004, Director from 2004-2010, and co-Director from 2010-2016. The main goals of the ISP are to foster interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary AI research across a wide variety of domains in a manner that is informed by the problems within those domains and that contributes to their solution. It is based on the idea that solving difficult, important, real problems in specific fields of study (domains) is a key way to achieve fundamental advances in AI. A number of Jan’s PhD students graduated from the ISP rather than from the CS department. Jan’s research in the domain of biomedical informatics was also done in collaboration with colleagues from the ISP.</p>
<p>Jan had a long and successful career, and was involved in many professional communities. These roles included ACL Program Co-Chair, NAACL Program Chair, NAACL Executive Board member, Transactions of the ACL Action Editor, Computational Linguistics and Language Resources and Evaluation Editorial Board member, AAAI Workshop Co-Chair, ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (SIGART) Vice-Chair, and ACM-SIGART/AAAI Doctoral Consortium Chair. In 2015, she was named a fellow of the ACL “for seminal contributions to Subjectivity and Sentiment analysis, Discourse Processing, and Lexical Semantics.”</p>
<h2 id="research-contributions">Research contributions</h2>
<p>Jan had a deep and abiding interest in <strong>subjective language</strong>. Her research on <em>subjective language</em> and <em>sentiment</em> was at the origin of a large amount of work on sentiment analysis in natural language processing. Back in 1999, she developed a probabilistic classifier to distinguish between subjective and objective sentences and created a manually annotated data set for the evaluation of this NLP task (which is still available on her web site!). In the early 2000s, Jan collaborated with Ellen Riloff to explore the use of information extraction techniques to learn subjective language from text corpora. They developed bootstrapping methods to learn subjective nouns and to learn multi-word subjective expressions using lexico-syntactic patterns. The learned subjective nouns were ultimately included in the subjectivity lexicon that was released with the OpinionFinder system. This research subsequently led to work on learning subjective and objective sentence classifiers using unannotated texts, as well as work showing that subjectivity classification can improve the precision of event extraction by filtering information found in subjective contexts. In another line of related work, they defined a subsumption hierarchy to capture the representational overlap and behavior of different types of subjectivity features and showed that feature selection using the hierarchy can improve opinion classification performance.</p>
<p>Complementing her work on subjectivity classification was Jan’s interest in understanding how language expresses <em>private states</em> (such as opinions, beliefs, evaluations, attitudes, emotion) , and how we can automatically analyze language to determine private states. She pioneered the study of what would come to be known as <em>fine-grained sentiment (or opinion) analysis</em> which tries to identify subjective expressions, their <em>source</em> (the opinion holder), <em>target</em> (what the opinion is about) and attributes (for example, strength and polarity). As was her trademark, Jan developed her representational framework (with her students and collaborators) into a set of annotation guidelines, ultimately producing the widely used MPQA corpus, which had a tremendous impact on the field. The framework allowed for early study of quite complex linguistic structures including nested attributions in which the attitude of person or entity X was expressed via a second entity Y. Along the same lines, Jan (with her students and collaborators) were among the first to develop a computational account of <em>stance</em> (a pro/con attitude toward a specific topic or claim) as well as to study <em>multilingual aspects of subjectivity.</em></p>
<p>In her most recent work, Jan used a combination of lexical semantics and implicature analysis to go beyond sentiment that the text expresses explicitly (<em>High healthcare costs are bad</em>). For example, in the sentence <em>The reform would lower skyrocketing healthcare costs</em>, a word-based sentiment system would discover negative sentiment because of <em>skyrocketing</em>. Maybe a sentiment system can determine that the target of the negative sentiment is the health care costs. But in addition, if we dislike something, then lowering it is good – so we can infer positive sentiment towards the lowering event. And finally, we like agents of events we like, in this case the reform. So, even though we have a single sentiment word which is negative, we can infer two instances of positive sentiment as well! These inferences are in fact implicatures, since they can be defeated. Like other implicatures, they play an important role in natural language understanding. Jan and her students proposed both a rule-based system, and an approach based on machine learning. Jan felt passionately about this line of research, and many of her ideas remain to be discovered by the broader community.</p>
<p>Jan has also made significant contributions to <strong>discourse analysis,</strong> spanning many decades. Her early work in the 80s, which explored perspectives in narratives, argued for looking at subjectivity beyond the sentence boundary. Jan called this the “subjective context”, and these comprised of one or more subjective sentences attributed to the same subjective character. She presented an algorithm in the form of a discourse process to recognize the same. The MPQA corpus in early 2000s was a result of refining and solidifying these ideas. In late 2000s, Jan and her students presented the schemes and systems for other types of discourse-level interpretations, where clear opinions in one part of the discourse could be used to interpret ambiguous opinions in other parts of the discourse. Opinion graphs were constructed from entity relations in the discourse to enable inference. These ideas also resulted in the first works on stance detection in online texts. As all her students will attest, Jan made sure that the ideas were followed through with schemas, schemas were substantiated with annotated corpora, corpora were used to build empirical systems and smart applications. All through this, she made sure the works were very accessible and readily available, thus encouraging the rest of the community to pursue these research directions.</p>
<p>During the early and mid 90s, together with her students – mainly Rebecca Bruce and Thomas O’Hara – Jan has devoted significant research effort to the problem of <strong>word sense disambiguation</strong>. In some of her early work, she introduced a probabilistic model that relied on multiple contextual features to disambiguate the meaning of words; to provide an experimental testbed for that work, she also introduced and made available a corpus of manually annotated senses for the word ``interest’’, which was instrumental for several follow-up research projects on word sense disambiguation. The public release of data was not very common at that time, and yet Jan has always strived to make the datasets that she worked on publicly available. Her continuous efforts to create natural language processing benchmarks have paid off, as a large body of research in our field has built upon Jan’s work on creating annotated datasets.</p>
<p>After taking what seemed like a short break from her earlier work on word sense disambiguation, Jan came back to this problem in 2005 with a novel view that also brought in her research on subjectivity. The hypothesis of this new line of research was that words have subjective and objective senses that are coarser grained than the traditional dictionary word meanings, and thus presumably also more tractable for automatic disambiguation methods. Together with students and collaborators, Jan developed methods to automatically annotate the subjectivity of word senses in lexicons, as well as methods to identify the contextual subjectivity of a word sense. This work has eventually resulted in a new release of MPQA, which also included these new sense annotations.</p>
<h2 id="memories-from-close-friends-students-collaborators">Memories from close friends, students, collaborators</h2>
<p>Jan had a lasting impact on all the students and colleagues who came in contact with her and her research. Among them, several became close friends and long-term collaborators.</p>
<p><strong>Diane Litman, Professor, University of Pittsburgh</strong></p>
<p>It was so long ago that I am not exactly sure when I first met Jan – perhaps at COLING in 1990 or at the AAAI Fall Symposium on Discourse Structure in Natural Language Understanding and Generation in 1991. Both of us were fairly fresh PhDs at the time. Wherever we originally met, two things still stick in my mind. First, the session chair introduced Jan using her full name “Janyce” but mispronounced her name. Jan very nicely but firmly gave a little lecture on how to correctly pronounce “Janyce” before beginning her presentation. Over the years I had many opportunities to witness Jan firmly but nicely push for things that were important to her. Second, Jan was so far ahead of the field in her research interests that the audience wasn’t quite sure what to make of her work on subjectivity, as this was years before opinion mining and sentiment analysis really took off. Jan was a true NLP pioneer, exploring new research directions that later become major research areas in their own right.</p>
<p>Due to our mutual interests in discourse and Jan’s outgoing and approachable nature, after our initial meeting Jan and I became good conference buddies. Skipping to NAACL 2000, I remember sitting in the hotel lobby and talking to Jan about her upcoming move to the University of Pittsburgh. Little did I know that my enthusiasm at this chat would lead Jan to recruit me to Pitt only a year later!</p>
<p>After I moved to Pitt in 2001, Jan not only became my faculty colleague but also a great personal friend. Jan was everything one could hope for in a faculty colleague. She was a collegial, positive, and hardworking faculty member, taking the larger interests of both the department and the students to heart. She was a great mentor to me personally, as I was moving to academia from industry while she had many years of prior academic experience. She was also a great NLP resource for my graduate students as well as for me. She always critiqued papers in terms of their ability to “tell a story,” a useful perspective that I quickly adopted. Jan’s office was only a hallway away, so we talked almost daily about NLP and so many other things. Her voice and infectious laugh ringing through the halls are sounds I greatly miss.</p>
<p>Together Jan and I spent many years exploring and enjoying Pittsburgh. We took walks along the rivers or through the city’s many neighborhoods. We went to the opera, the ballet, concerts, museums, art shows, garden tours, pierogi festivals, shopping, etc. We went out for high tea or to the local diner. We attended Pirates and Steelers games. We watched fireworks from her house, which had an amazing view of downtown. After Jan started battling cancer, we just spent a lot of hours hanging out at her home or in the hospital.</p>
<p>Jan’s death leaves a hole in my heart both professionally and personally that will be difficult to heal.</p>
<p><strong>Claire Cardie, Professor, Cornell University</strong></p>
<p>My first encounter with Jan was actually something of a run-in with her: in 1997 Ralph Weischedel and I had accepted for publication one of her two submissions to the 2nd EMNLP Conference and it was Jan’s firm belief that we had accepted the WRONG ONE! I don’t know if that was the case, but I knew then and there that Jan was someone you wanted on <em>your</em> team rather than on the opposing team — she was polite, but formidable in argumentation on issues she cared about and believed in. Happily, I had the honor of teaming up with Jan many many times — to write grant proposals, organize workshops and panels, prepare presentations, write reports…and to do what Jan loved most: research! Our research collaborations gave me the chance to get to know Jan well. We became good friends, sharing meals, conversations, opinions and adventures. I remember especially fondly our two-day jaunt in Paris en route to Bulgaria for ACL 2013 — we must have traversed all 20 arrondissements by foot! Jan loved to walk. We were walking partners at pretty much every NLP event we attended, more often than not finding ourselves somehow on streets or beaches or stretches of highway not particularly amenable to foot travel. No matter, Jan loved to walk! I am missing the walking and the talking and the laughing with Jan. She was a wonderful friend and an inspirational colleague.</p>
<p><strong>Ellen Riloff, Professor, University of Utah</strong></p>
<p>Jan was an outstanding researcher, collaborator, and friend. I first met Jan at a conference in 2000, when she approached me with the idea of using information extraction techniques for subjectivity analysis. Shortly thereafter, she traveled to Baltimore (where I was on sabbatical) to brainstorm in person and plan a collaborative project. This led to a decade-long collaboration involving several research projects and many joint publications. The success of our collaboration was a direct result of her vision to bring IE and subjectivity analysis together, and her willingness to educate me about the many fascinating problems related to subjectivity. Thanks to Jan’s infectious enthusiasm for the topic, I came to love it myself, so much so that I continue working in this area to this day.</p>
<p>A friendship also emerged from our collaboration. Jan had a terrific sense of humor and loved to laugh. We regularly exchanged examples of funny or interesting subjective language encountered in everyday life. At conferences, we often escaped for a few hours to explore local tourist sites. One of my favorite memories of Jan will be our visit to a botanical garden in Lisbon for EMNLP 2015. We encountered a flock of ducks at a pond, who waddled toward us, somewhat aggressively. Concerned that they felt threatened, we backed away from the pond and continued walking down the path. But the ducks followed and Jan got hysterical laughing at the comical scene of a dozen agitated ducks quacking loudly and waddling behind us. Most of the ducks soon lost interest and wandered off, but one large duck fixated on Jan and relentlessly chased after her. For several minutes, I watched Jan run from the large duck, turning around every few seconds to see where it was and breaking into a new round of laughter every time (which only egged on the duck even more!). This episode became a favorite story, re-told many times, and to me epitomized Jan’s easy laugh and joy for life. I will miss her greatly, as both a colleague and as a friend.</p>
<p><strong>Rada Mihalcea, Professor, University of Michigan</strong></p>
<p>Jan has been an extraordinary presence in my life - both professionally and personally. I remember my first meeting with her, sometime in 2004. In my view of the NLP world, Jan was one of the main figures in the field, and as someone who was just starting as an assistant professor I felt a bit nervous when she invited me to have lunch “to talk about research.” We talked about subjectivity (which was Jan’s main research focus) and word senses (which was my main line of work at that time). That lunch marked the beginning of a long friendship and a fruitful collaboration – over the years, we explored together word sense subjectivity, multilingual subjectivity, good-for/bad-for effect in word senses. We had lengthy and inspiring conversations on subjectivity and sentiment, narrative, semantics, and so many more. We came up with ideas, we imagined algorithms, we wrote papers, we exchanged annotations, we advised students, we wrote proposals; and along the way we became close friends.</p>
<p>I am incredibly grateful to Jan for the amazing nearly 15 years of friendship and collaboration; for having had confidence in me when I was just starting; and in recent years, for teaching me what it means to be strong. In an email she sent in late summer she said ``My mindset is that we will fight and we will win.” That has always been Jan’s spirit! And even if she did not win against cancer, she won in so many other ways. She has and will continue to be a strong presence in the NLP world; and she permanently marked my own – and I am sure so many others’ – world.</p>
<p><strong>Owen Rambow, Research Scientist, Elemental Cognition</strong></p>
<p>I of course knew Jan by professional reputation, but the first time I met her in person was quite memorable. At a conference, friends invited me along to dinner with her. Conversation immediately was easy and interesting. And fun, too. Though it was a rather staid restaurant, the four of us at one point broke out in a <em>fou rire</em> — an uncontrollable attack of shared laughter. It seemed to me at the time an auspicious introduction.</p>
<p>Jan and I continued our acquaintance over the years, and a few years ago we started talking about the work we were doing. Jan was investigating the relation between expressions of sentiment and belief, and I was interested in how language signals who believes what. She invited me to join her in a tutorial at ACL in Beijing on belief and sentiment. We agreed that at ACL we would also explore ideas for a joint NSF proposal. We ended up attending very few talks. Instead, we spent the days in my AirBnB or in cafés and restaurants in Andingmen (she was very adventurous about food, and appreciated good food). We talked about how our subjectivity, and our models of our fellow discourse participants’ subjective states, are expressed in language. But we also talked about anything and everything. We would get excited about what we were talking about (be it subjectivity, politics, or gossip), and occasionally Jan wold look around and decide we needed to lower our voices. It was a very satisfying week for me — both the sense of exploring new scientific ideas, and of getting to know someone.</p>
<p>I was looking forward to a long collaboration and friendship. Alas, that was not to be. I will always treasure the memory of the week in Beijing with Jan, and its sense of potential and excitement.</p>
<p><strong>Marilyn Walker, Professor, University of California Santa Cruz</strong></p>
<p>I first met Jan at ACL 1988 in Buffalo, where she presented a paper on her Ph.D. thesis work on subjectivity in narrative “A computational theory of perspective and reference in narrative”. In those days, ACL was single track, and I can still visualize the room and Jan’s presentation. I remember thinking “This is interesting but weird stuff!”. I admired her for following and working on something that she was interested in, when it seemed that no-one else was working on the same thing. Who could have predicted at that point in time that this interest of Jan’s would grow into the whole field of subjectivity analysis with its ties to sentiment analysis, attribution and perspective?</p>
<p>Over the following 30 years, I have always thought that whatever Jan was working on was interesting, but I also grew to strongly value her as a friend. When I think of her now, what I remember the most is her quick wit and sarcasm and that contagious laugh! Whenever we were at a conference or a meeting together, we always had a great time, getting together for dinner (e.g. a restaurant that specialized in horse meat in Prague), or ducking out to play amateur naturalist and go look at wildlife. I got to stay at her house once, with the fantastic views of Pittsburgh. She was an amazing person and colleague, and I feel lucky to have known her.</p>
<p><strong>Rebecca Bruce, Professor, University of North Carolina Asheville</strong></p>
<p>I was Jan’s first PhD student. I had already begun my dissertation research when she agreed to accept me as her student. I shared with her my passion for statistical modeling and she shared with me her expertise in NLP research. Jan always had a keen sense of what needed to be done and the ability and perseverance to get it done. She was meticulous and thorough in her research as well as clear and insightful in her presentations; I strove to be the same. Our relationship shaped not only my research but my life. When I completed by PhD, we traveled frequently to see each other. I will never forget the days she spent traveling in North Carolina with me and my young daughter. Although I have not been active in the field of NLP for a number of years, Jan’s friendship was constant. She was steadfast, someone you could count on. She was my touchstone and I will miss her greatly.</p>
<p><strong>Rebecca Hwa, Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh</strong></p>
<p>I met Jan when I was still a postdoc, looking for my first position. Her warm and friendly personality was one of the reasons that made Pitt a great place to work. Over the past fifteen years, I have come to know Jan as a mentor, a collaborator, and a friend. I admire Jan because she always spoke up for what she believed in — not only for her work, her students, and her research community but also for her local neighborhood, her favorite sports teams, and her political candidates. Once, when I was still a new junior faculty, I tried to introduce myself to a program director from a funding agency, who was swarmed by a crowd of people. I was not sure how to break in when Jan strode up confidently right into the crowd, politely discussed her project with the director; when she was done, in what seemed like a magic move, she maneuvered me in front of herself and introduced me to the director. There were countless examples of these small but impactful gestures that Jan performed to promote people who are junior to her. What I will miss the most is her energy and her love of life. She had an infectiously bright laughter; although she would sometimes apologize for “being too loud,” our corridor was a more lively place when she was around. Her presence is greatly missed.</p>
<p><strong>Swapna Somasundaran, Research Scientist, ETS</strong></p>
<p>I was extremely blessed to have had Jan as my guru. What struck me when I met Jan for the first time, as a new graduate student visiting the university, was how simple and approachable she was. Jan was then already a very well-known researcher in the ACL community and had established the field of Subjectivity analysis. I had anticipated to be in awe of a famous professor, and what I found was a most friendly and unassuming person who went out of her way to put me at ease. She simply came to pick me up personally, took me to all the meetings through the day, and dropped me off in the evening – and this was on the eve of an important grant deadline!</p>
<p>As an advisor, Jan was perceptive, pragmatic and flexible. She had awe-inspiring grit and I try to live by what she told me often during my student days: what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Her research lab was just as much fun as it was productive. With Jan’s effervescent lead, detailed discussions of Austen and Gaskell novels, movie screenings and outings were all very much a part of what we did as a group. Discussions and debates would move seamlessly between Mr. Darcy’s letter to Elizabeth Bennet and nuances of subjectivity annotations. Coming up with linguistic schemes and annotations to computationally model language seemed to be a natural extension of the fun. Jan’s love for language in all its explicit and implicit layers was infectious and an inspiration.</p>
<p>Over the years after graduation, Jan continued to be a friend, philosopher, guide and family – she was always just a call or email away to discuss a quandary, to share a good news, or to just chat about a good book. I will be forever grateful for her guidance and presence in my life.</p>
<p><strong>Lingjia Deng, Research Scientist, Bloomberg</strong></p>
<p>Jan is more than a Ph.D. advisor to me. In the school, she was very knowledgeable. Jan was extremely patient with teaching, especially for international students including me whose native language is not English. Her teaching not only gave us knowledge but also comforted me and encouraged me to adapt to a totally new environment. During my Ph.D. study, Jan always discussed research questions with me. She didn’t have a condescending look on students. On the contrary, Jan was open to new ideas and listened to my proposals all the time. After we made a decision on an idea, Jan was strict and rigorous in the scientific experiments. It was like we two were exploring in a forest. We had many directions to go. Jan allowed me to choose the one direction that I was interested in. She then would carefully exclude the barriers for me. As a female scientist, Jan was super confident in girls learning science and choosing science and engineering as their jobs. She was a role model herself.</p>
<p>Outside the school, Jan also guided me a lot. She was curious about many new things and new cultures. Jan was very brave, too. When she visited Beijing during the ACL conference, she booked a local hotel in Beijing’s old town instead of the conference hotel where everyone was able to speak English there. That local hotel was difficult to find, even for me. She even declined my offer of my friend guiding her to that hotel. I still don’t know how she figured out getting there today. Jan was very open-minded and welcomed students from different countries.</p>
<p>Jan will be my advisor for the rest of my life. The knowledge she taught me and the experiences we shared together will influence me forever.</p>
<p><strong>Rev. Dr. Matthew Bell, Whitworth University</strong></p>
<p>I first met Jan as an undergraduate at New Mexico State University around 1996, and I cannot imagine my life apart from her impact. It was her encouragement – and the interest she took in me, even as a very “green” undergraduate – that transformed my university experience from one of directionless intellectual interest into the seed of a life-long vocation. When, despite good grades and due largely to calf-at-a-new-gate naiveté I dropped the ball on applying to graduate school, it was Jan’s mentoring and guidance that took me from the desert southwest to the University of Pittsburgh to complete a masters of science. When my interests developed down surprising channels (to me) once in Pittsburgh, Jan’s council helped push me towards switching tracks from informatics to theology and the pastoral arts, sending me down the street to Pittsburgh Seminary. Finally, years down the road, when my seemingly irreconcilable career interests in teaching computer science and teaching theology began, oddly, to my eye, to come together, Jan was waiting in the wings on social media to welcome me back to the world of computer science. If I could think of one phrase to describe Jan’s influence, it is: “undisturbed, optimistic encouragement.” I thank God for Jan; my ambition for the future is to mimic her influence.</p>Rada Mihalceamihalcea at umich dot eduhttps://web.eecs.umich.edu/~mihalcea/A tribute to Jan Wiebe from friends, students, and collaborators.