- Georges Carayannis, Institute for Language and Speech Processing - Athens, Greece
- Roberto de Mattei, Vice-President of Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Roma, Italy
- Charles J. Fillmore, University of California at Berkeley - Berkeley, USA
- Hiroya Fujisaki, Science University of Tokyo - Tokyo, Japan
- Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology - Tokyo, Japan
- Tanya Korelsky, Program Director, Human Language and Communication Division of Information and Intelligent Systems
Directorate for Computer and Information Sciences
National Science Foundation - Arlington, USA
- Makoto Nagao, University of Kyoto - Kyoto, Japan
- Joseph Olive, DARPA (Information Processing Technology Office) - Arlington, USA
- Bernard Quemada, Conseil Supérieur de la Langue Française - Paris, France
- Bernard Smith, European Commission - Information Society and Media Directorate-General, Directorate E: Content, Unit E.1: Interfaces, Luxembourg
- Piet G.J. Van Sterkenburg, International Permanent Committee of Linguists - Leiden, The Netherlands
- Shiwen Yu, School of Electronics Engineering & Computer Science, Peking University - Beijing, China