Senior Area Chairs

Society and NLP

Wei Gao
Singapore Management University

Dialogue and Interactive Systems

Michel Galley
Microsoft Research

Generation and Summarization

Yue Dong
University of California, Riverside
Dimitra Gkatzia
Edinburgh Napier University

Information Extraction

Ruihong Huang
Texas A&M University
Makoto Miwa
Toyota Technological Institute

Information Retrieval and Text Mining

Sophia Ananiadou
University of Manchester
Muhao Chen  
University of Southern California

Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP

Kai-Wei Chang
University of California, Los Angeles

Multimodality: Speech, Vision, Robotics, and Beyond

Li Dong
Microsoft Research
Sakti Sakriani  
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)

Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling, and Psycholinguistics

Ashutosh Modi
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Yohei Oseki
The University of Tokyo

Language Modeling and Analysis

Yang Liu
Microsoft Research
Naoya Inoue
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Machine Learning for NLP

Lingpeng Kong
University of Hong Kong
Sinno Jialin Pan
Chinese University of Hong Kong

Machine Translation and Multilingualism

Deyi Xiong
Tianjin University
Longyue Wang
Tencent AI Lab

NLP Applications

Jey Han Lau
The University of Melbourne
Mingxuan Wang
Bytedance AI Lab

Question Answering

Wenpeng Yin
Penn State University

Resources and Evaluation

Joel Tetreault
Dataminr
Eduardo Blanco
Unviersity of Arizona

Semantics: Lexical, Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference, etc.

Preslav Nakov
MBZUAI

Discourse and Pragmatics

Bonnie Webber
The University of Edinburgh

Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining

Vincent Ng
University of Texas at Dallas

Syntax: Tagging, Chunking, Parsing etc.

Kewei Tu
ShanghaiTech University

Theme

Imed Zitouni
Google
Lei Li
University of California, Santa Barbara