CONFERENCE ADDRESSES


The Conference Chair is
Antonio Zampolli 
University of Pisa 
Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR 
via della Faggiola, 32 
56126, Pisa, ITALY 
Tel: +39 050 315 28 37
Fax: +39 50 555 013
e-mail:  lrec@ilc.pi.cnr.it 
 
The Secretariat of the LREC-2000 Conference, which will provide general information on the Conference, is:
Ms. Evita Fotinea
Institute for Language and Speech Processing
6, Artemidos & Epidavrou Str.
15125 Marousi
Athens, Greece
Tel: +301 6800959
Fax: +301 6856794
e-mail: evita@ilsp.gr 
The demonstration organiser is: 
Mr. Stelios Piperidis 
Institute for Language and Speech Processing 
6, Artemidos & Epidavrou Str. 
15125 Marousi 
Athens, Greece 
Tel: +301 6800959 
Fax: +301 6854270 
e-mail: spip@ilsp.gr  
Information on travel, accommodation and general information on Athens can be obtained from: 

Ms. Elsa Liakakou 
MOEL 
36, Eleon str, 14564, Nea Kifissia, Greece 
Tel: +301 6203625 
Fax: +301 8078342 
e-mail: liagramo@internet.gr  




CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Nicoletta Calzolari, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa, Italy
George Carayannis, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens, Greece
Khalid Choukri, ELRA, Paris, France
Harald Höge, Siemens, Munich, Germany
Bente Maegaard, CST, Copenhagen, Denmark
Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France
Antonio Zampolli, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy (Conference chair)


INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Sture Allen, professor, former permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, Sweden
Souguil Ann, Seoul National University, Korea
Roberto Cencioni, Commission of the EU, DGXIII, Luxembourg
Zhiwei Feng , The State Language Commission of China, Beijing, China
Hiroya Fujisaki, Science University of Tokyo, Japan
E. Galanis, Vice-Rector of the National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Angel Martin Municio, President of the Real Academia de Ciencias, Madrid, Spain
Mark Maybury, MITRE Corporation, Boston, USA
Bernard Quemada, Conseil Supérieur de la Langue Française, Paris, France
Gary Strong, NSF & DARPA, Washington, D.C., USA
Ath. Tsaftaris, Secretary General for Research and Technology, Athens, Greece
Piet G.J. Van Sterkenburg, International Permanent Committee of Linguists, Leiden, The Netherlands
Jialu Zhang, Academia Sinica, Institute of Acoustics, Beijing, China


SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Lars Ahrenberg ; Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University - Linköping, Sweden
Nuria Bel ; Fundacion Bosch i Gimpera (Gilcub) - Barcelona, Spain
Niels Ole Bernsen ; Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory, University of Southern Denmark - Odense, Denmark
Marc Blasband ; Compuleer - The Netherlands
Branimir Boguarev ; IBM T:J:Watson Research Center - New York, USA
Robin Bonthrone ; Fry & Bonthrone Partnerschaft, Language Consultancy Services - Mainz-Kastel, Germany
Louis Boves ; SPEX (Center for Speech Processing Expertise) - Leidschendam, The Netherlands
Anna Braasch ; Center for Sprogteknologi - Copenhagen, Denmark
Maria Teresa Cabré ; Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona, Spain
Nick Campbell ; Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute - Kyoto, Japan
Amedeo Cappelli ; Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR, - Pisa, Italy
Paul Dalsgaard ; University of Aalborg - Aalborg, Denmark
Christian Delcourt ; BELTEXT-Université de Liège - Liège, Belgium
Iannis Dologlou ; Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens, Greece
Laila Dybkjaer ; Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory, University of Southern Denmark - Odense, Denmark
Pamela-Blanchard Faber ; Facultad de Traducción e Interpreatción, Universidad de Granada - Granada, Spain
Christiane Fellbaum ; University of Princeton, Princeton, USA
Charles Fillmore ; International Computer Science Institute, University of Berkeley - Berkeley, USA
James L. Flanagan ; CAIP, Rutgers University
Christian Fluhr ; CEA - Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Sadaoki Furui ; Tokyo Institute of Technology - Tokyo, Japan
Robert Gaizauskas ; Deaprtment of Computer Science, University of Sheffield - Sheffield, UK
Maria Gavrilidou ; Institute for Language and Speech Processing - Athens, Greece
Dafydd Gibbon ; Universität Bielefeld - Bielefeld, Germany
Bjorn Granstrom ; KTH - Sweden
Gregory Grefenstette ; Xerox Research Centre Europe - Meylan, France
Annelise Grinsted ; Handelshøjskole Syd, Kolding, Denmark
Ralph Grishman ; New York University - New York, USA
Benoît Habert ; ENS - Fontenay, France
Eva Hajicova ; Charles University of Prague - Prague, Czech Republic
Donna Harman ; National Institute of Standards and Technology - Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
Ulrich Heid ; Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Henk van den Heuvel ; SPEX and Catholic University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Lynette Hirschman ; MITRE Corporation - Boston, USA
Havard Hjulstad ; Norwegian Council for Technical Terminology - Oslo, Norway
Eduard Hovy ; USC Information Sciences Institute- Marina del Rey, California, USA
Nancy Ide ; Department of Computer Science, Vassar College - Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
Shuichi Itahashi ; Institute of Information Sciences and Electronics, University of Tsukuba - Tsukuba, Japan
Ian Johnson ; Sharp Laboratories of Europe, Ltd. - Oxford, UK
Christophe Jouis ; Université Paris III - Paris, France
Norbert Kalfon ; Talis - Madrid, Spain
Margaret King ; ISSCO - Geneva, Switzerland
Sabine Kirchmeier-Andersen ; Copenhagen Business School - Copenhagen, Denmark
John Kontos ; Economic University of Athens - Athens, Greece
Steven Krauwer ; ELSNET Coordinator - Utrecht, The Netherlands
Truus Kruyt ; Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie - Leiden, The Netherlands
Lori Lamel ; LIMSI - Orsay, France
Lin-Shan Lee ; National Taiwan University and Academia Sinica - Taiwan
Joaquim Llisterri ; Instituto Cervantes - Madrid, Spain
David M.Roy ; Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory, University of Southern Denmark - Odense, Denmark
Jean Claude Martin; LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France
Mark Maybury ; MITRE Corporation - Boston, USA
Jock McNaught ; UMIST - Manchester, UK
J.Bruce Millar ; Australian National University - Canberra, Australia
Roger Moore ; Defense Research Agency - Worchester, UK
Klaus Netter ; DFKI, Germany
Sergei Nirenburg ; New Mexico State University - Las Cruces, USA
Jan Odijk ; Lernout and Hauspie Speech Products - Ieper, Belgium
Antoine Ogonowski ; LexiQuest - Paris, France
Nicholas Ostler ; Linguacubun Ltd - Bath, UK
Sharon Oviatt ; Department of Computer Science, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology - Beaverton, Oregon, USA
David S. Pallett ; National Institute of Standards and Technology - Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
Martha Palmer ; University of Pennsylvania - CIS - Philadelphia, USA
Patrick Paroubek ; LIMSI - Paris, France
Maria Teresa Pazienza ; Dept. Of Computer Science, Systems and Production, University of Roma, Tor Vergata - Roma, Italy
Vito Pirrelli ; Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR - Pisa, Italy
Louis Pols ; Amsterdam University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Irina Prodanof ; Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR - Pisa, Italy
Philip Resnik ; Department of Linguistics and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, Universit of Maryland - USA
Antonio Rubio ; University of Granada, Spain
Anna Sagvall ; Sweden
Antonio Sanfilippo ; European Commission, DGXII - Luxembourg
Laurent Schmitt ; INIST-CNRS, Vandoeuvre-les Nancy, France
Kiyohiro Shikano ; Nara Institute of Science and Technology - Nara, Japan
Harold Short ; King's College London - London, UK
Herman J.M. Steeneken ; TNO Human Factors Research Institute - Soesterberg, The Netherlands
Volker Steinbiss ; Philips Speech Processing - Aachen, Germany
Daniel Tapias ; Telefonica I&D - Madrid, Spain
Wolfgang Teubert ; Institut für Deutsche Sprache - Mannheim, Germany
Dimitri Theologitis ; European Commission Translation Service - Luxemburg
Dan Tufis ; Romanian Academy - Bucharest, Romania
Jean Vanderdonckt ; Institut d'Administration et de Gestion, Université de Louvain - Louvain-la.Neuve, Belgium
Giovanni Varile ; European Commission, DGXIII - Luxembourg
Felisa Verdejo ; Dpto. Electronica y Tecnologia de Computadores Universitŕ de Granada - Granada, Spain
Jean Veronis ; Centre Informatique pour les Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Université de Provence - Aix-en-Provence, France
Marylin Walker ; ATT Labs-Research - New Jersey, USA
John White ; PRC Inc. - USA
Peter Wyard ; Project Manager Multimodal Spoken Language Interfaces, British Telecom - Ipswich, UK
Rémi Zajac ; New Mexico State University - Las Cruces, USA


LOCAL COMMITTEE

George Babiniotis, University of Athens
Stelios Bakamidis, ILSP, Athens
George Carayannis, ILSP, Athens (Chair of the local committee)
Christophoros Charalambakis, University of Athens
Nikos Chatzigeorgiou, ILSP, Xanthi
Ioannis Dologlou, ILSP, Athens
Evita Fotinea, ILSP, Athens
Maria Gavrilidou, ILSP, Athens
Michael Kopidakis, University of Athens
Stella Markantonatou, ILSP, Athens
George Papakonstantinou, National Technical University of Athens
Stelios Piperidis, ILSP, Athens
Kostas Rekatsinas
Gregory Stainhauer, ILSP, Athens
Michael Strintzis, University of Thessaloniki ml>