Conference Programme Committee
Conference Programme Committee
- Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference chair), Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR, Pisa, Italy - Khalid Choukri, ELRA, Paris, France
- Aldo Gangemi, Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione del CNR, Roma, Italy
- Bente Maegaard, CST, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France
- Jan Odijk, Nuance Communications International, Merelbeke, Belgium and UIL-OTS, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Daniel Tapias, Telefonica Moviles, Madrid, Spain
International Advisory Committee
- 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
Scientific Committee
- Adda Gilles, LIMSI/CNRS France
- Adda-Decker Martine, LIMSI-CNRS France
- Agirre Eneko, University of the Basque Country Spain
- Ahmad Khurshid, Trinity College, Dublin Ireland
- Ahrenberg Lars, Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University Sweden
- Alonge Antonietta, Dipartimento di Filosofia, Linguistica e Letterature - Università di Perugia Italy
- Alt Susanne ATILF-CNRS, France
- Ananiadou Sophia, University of Manchester UK
- Atwell Eric, University of Leeds UK
- Bacelar Maria Fernanda, Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa Portugal
- Badia Toni, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Spain
- Baldwin Timothy ,University of Melbourne Australia
- Basili Roberto, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Roma Tor Vergata Italy
- Béjoint Henri ,Université Lyon 2 France
- Bel Núria, IULA - Universitat Pompeu Fabra Spain
- Bergler Sabine, Concordia University Canada
- Bernsen Niels Ole, NISLab Denmark
- Bertagna Francesca, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, CNR, Pisa Italy
- Bettencourt José, Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa Portugal
- Bhattacharya Pushpak, Professor of Computer Science, IIT Bombay India
- Biber Hanno, Austrian Academy of Sciences, AAC - Austrian Academy Corpus Austria
- Bimbot Frédéric, IRISA (CNRS & INRIA) France
- Boas Hans C., University of Texas at Austin USA
- Bonastre Jean-François, LIA - University of Avignon France
- Bonneau-Maynard Hélène, LIMSI/CNRS France
- Bontcheva Kalina, University of Sheffield UK
- Bosch Sonja E., University of South Africa South Africa
- Bouillon Pierrette, Université de Genève Switzerland
- Bouma Gosse, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen The Netherlands
- Boves Lou Radboud, University Nijmegen The Netherlands
- Braasch Anna, Center for Sprogteknologi, University of Copenhagen Denmark
- Branco António, University of Lisbon Portugal
- Brew Chris, The Ohio State University USA
- Budin Gerhard, University of Vienna Austria
- Buitelaar Paul, DFKI GmbH Germany
- Bunt Harry, Tilburg University The Netherlands
- Busemann Stephan, DFKI GmbH Germany
- Cabré Maria Teresa, IULA-Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona) Spain
- Caelen Jean, CNRS France
- Caminero Javier, Telefonica I+D Spain
- Campbell Nick, ATR Japan
- Cañas José Juan, University of Granada, Spain
- Cartoni Bruno, TIM/ETI, University of Geneva Switzerland
- Castellon Irene, University of Barcelona Spain
- Cavalli-Sforza Violetta, Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University USA
- Cernocky Jan, Brno University of Technology Czech Republic
- Choi Key-Sun, KAIST Japan
- Chollet Gérard, CNRS-LTCI, GET-ENST France
- Choukri Khalid, ELRA/ELDA France
- Ciaramita Massimiliano, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC-CNR) Italy
- Cieri Christopher, University of Pennsylvania, Linguistic Data Consortium USA
- Ciravegna Fabio, University of Sheffield UK
- Comeyne Robrecht J., Nuance Communications International Belgium
- Concejero Pedro, Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo Spain
- Copestake Ann, University of Cambridge UK
- Costa Rute, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Portugal
- Cristea Dan, "Al.I.Cuza" University of Iasi Romania
- Cucchiarini Catia, Nederlandse Taalunie The Netherlands
- Daelemans Walter, CNTS University of Antwerp Belgium
- Daille Beatrice, LINA FRE CNRS 2729 - Université de Nantes France
- Dalianis Hercules, DSV-KTH-Stockholm university Sweden
- De Jong Franciska, University of Twente Belgium
- De Loupy Claude, ---
- Declerck Thierry, DFKI GmbH Germany
- Delcourt Christian, University of Liège Belgium
- Delmonte Rodolfo ,Department of Language Sciences - University of Venice Italy
- Devillers Laurence, LIMSI-CNRS France
- Di Eugenio Barbara, University of Illinois - Chicago USA
- Dimitrov Marin, Ontotext Lab. / Sirma Group Bulgaria
- Ding Ying, University of Innsbruck Austria
- Dini Luca, CELI s.r.l Italy
- Dologlou Ioannis, Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP) Greece
- Draxler Christoph ,University of Munich, Phonetics Institute Germany
- Dutoit Dominique, Memodata France
- Dybkjaer Laila, NISLab Denmark
- Edmonds Phil, Sharp Laboratories of Europe UK
- Emam Ossama, IBM Egypt
- Erbach Gregor, European Parliament Belgium
- Erdogan Hakan, Sabanci University Turkey
- Estival Dominique, DSTO Australia
- Evans Richard, University of Wolverhampton UK
- Evert Stefan, University of Osnabrück Germany
- Fakotakis Nikos, University of Patras Greece
- Farwell David, Instituciò Catalana de Reserca i Estudis Avançats Spain
- Federico Marcello, ITC-irst Italy
- Ferrari Giacomo, DSU - Università del Piemonte Orientale Italy
- Ferret Olivier, CEA-LIST France
- Fersøe Hanne, Center for Sprogteknologi, University of Copenhagen Denmark
- Flickinger Dan, Stanford University and University of Oslo Norway
- Fluhr Christian, CEA France
- Fontenelle Thierry, Microsoft Speech & Natural Language USA
- Fourcin Adrian, LARYNGOGRAPH UK
- Francopoulo Gil, INRIA + Tagmatica France
- Garcia-Mateo Carmen, University of Vigo Spain
- Gardent Claire, CNRS/LORIA France
- Gavrilidou Maria, Institute for Language and Speech Processing Greece
- Gelbukh Alexander, National Polytechnic Institute Mexico
- Geoffrois Edouard, DGA/CEP France
- Gibbon Dafydd, Universität Bielefeld Germany
- Gliozzo Alfio , ITC-irst Italy
- Gómez Hernández Luis, ETSIT Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Spain
- Granström Bjorn ,Center for Speech Technology, KTH Sweden
- Grau Brigitte, LIMSI (CNRS) et IIE France
- Grefenstette Gregory, CEA LIST France
- Grover Claire, University of Edinburgh UK
- Guarino Nicola, ISTC-CNR Italy
- Guyomard Mark, IRIAS/Enssat Lannion France France
- Habash Nizar, Columbia University USA
- Hajicova Eva, Charles University in Prague Czech Republic
- Hanks Patrick, Brandeis University USA
- Harabagiu Sanda, University of Texas at Dallas USA
- Harman Donna, NIST USa
- Hartley Anthony, University of Leeds, Centre for Translation Studies UK
- Heid Ulrich, IMS, University of Stuttgart Germany
- Hepple Mark, University of Sheffield UK
- Hjulstad Håvard, Standards Norway Norway
- Hoege Harald, Siemens AG Germany
- Hofland Knut, Aksis / University of Bergen Norway
- Hovy Eduard, USC Information Sciences Institute USA
- Huang Chu-Ren, Academia Sinica Taiwan
- Hughes Baden, The University of Melbourne Australia
- Hunt Melvyn, Novauris Technologies UK
- Ide Nancy, Vassar College USA
- Isahara Hitoshi, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology Japan
- Itahashi Shuichi, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Japan
- Jouis Christophe, Universite PARIS III Sorbonne Nouvelle France
- Junqua Jean-Claude, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.,Ltd. Japan
- Kacic Zdravko, University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Slovenia
- Kanzaki Kyoko, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) Japan
- Kiessling Andreas, Teleca Systems GmbH Germany
- King Margaret, ISSCO/TIM/ETI, University of Geneva Switzerland
- Kirchmeier-Andersen Sabine, CBS Copenhagen Business School Denmark
- Kitazawa Shigeyosh, Shizuoka University Japan
- Klatt Stefan, OFAI, Vienna Austria
- Kokkinakis Dimitrios, Göteborg University Sweden
- Korhonen Anna, University Of Cambridge UK
- Krauwer Steven, Utrecht University / ELSNET The Netherlands
- Kruyt Truus, Institute for Dutch Lexicology INL The Netherlands
- Kunzmann Siegfried, IBM AIM Voice Germany
- Kwong Oi Yee, City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
- Lafourcade Mathieu, LIRMM France
- Lamel Lori, CNRS-LIMSI France
- Laporte Eric, University of Marne-la-Vallée France
- Lenci Alessandro, Università di Pisa - Dipartimento di Linguistica Italy
- Lesmo Leonardo, Dipartimento di Informatica - Università di Torino Italy
- LHomme Marie-Claude, OLST. University of Montreal Canada
- Lindberg Borge, Aalborg University Denmark
- Lino Teresa, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Portugal
- Lombardo Vincenzo, Università di Torino Italy
- López Eduardo, Proffessor at Polytechnical University Madrid Spain
- Macklovitch Elliott, Universite de Montreal Canada
- Magnini Bernardo, ITC-irst Italy
- Magnusdottir Gudrun, ESTeam AB Greece
- Mani Inderjeet, MITRE USA
- Marasek Krzysztof, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology Poland
- Marimon Montserrat, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Spain
- Marrafa Palmira, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras Portugal
- Martens Jean-Pierre, ELIS - UG Belgium
- Martin Jean-Claude, CNRS-LIMSI / Univ. Paris 8-LINC France
- Matsumoto Yuji, Nara Institute of Science and Technology Japan
- Maybury Mark, MITRE USA
- McNaught John, University of Manchester and UK National Centre for Text Mining UK
- Melby Alan, Brigham Young University at Provo USA
- Millar J. Bruce, Australian National University Australia
- Miller Keith J., The MITRE Corporation USA
- Minker Wolfgang, University of Ulm Germany
- Mitkov Ruslan, University of Wolverhampton UK
- Monachesi Paola, Utrecht University The Netherlands
- Monachini Monica, ILC-CNR Italy
- Montemagni Simonetta, ILC-CNR Italy
- Moreno Asuncion, UPC Spain
- Moreno-Sandoval Antonio, Universidad Autonoma Madrid Spain
- Mühlenbock Katarina, DART, Sahlgrenska University Hospital Sweden
- Murata Masaki, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology Japan
- Navarretta Costanza, Centre for Language Technology -DK Denmark
- Navigli Roberto, Università di Roma "La Sapienza" Italy
- Nazarenko Adeline, Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris-Nord France
- Nerbonne John, University of Groningen The Netherlands
- Neumann Günter, DFKI Germany
- Nimb Sanni, University of Copenhagen, Center for Sprogteknologi Denmark
- Nissim Malvina, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh UK
- Nistrup Madsen, Bodil Copenhagen Business School, Dept. of Computational Linguistics Denmark
- Nuopponen Anita, University of Vaasa Finland
- Nyberg Eric, Carnegie Mellon University USA
- Ogonowski Antoine, freelance
- Oltramari Alessandro, LOA (ISTC CNR) & University of Trento Italy
- Omologo Maurizio, ITC-irst, Trento Italy
- Oostdijk Nelleke ,Radboud University Nijmegen The Netherlands
- Ordelman Roeland, University of Twente The Netherlands
- Ortega-Garcia Javier, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Spain
- Padró Lluís, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Spain
- Paggio Patrizia, University of Copenhagen, CST Denmark
- Pala Karel, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Czech Republic
- Palmer Martha, University of Colorado USA
- Paoloni Andrea, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni Italy
- Paroubek Patrick ,LIMSI-CNRS France
- Passonneau Rebecca, Columbia University USA
- Pastra Katerina, Institute for Language and Speech Processing Greece
- Pazienza Maria Teresa, DISP - University of Roma Tor Vergata Italy
- Pease Adam, Articulate Software USA
- Pedersen Bolette, University of Copenhagen Denmark
- Pelachaud Catherine ,University of Paris8 France
- Petek Bojan, University of Ljubljana Slovenia
- Peters Carol Ann, ISTI-CNR, Pisa Italy
- Pezzulo Giovanni, Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione del CNR, Roma Italy
- Pianesi Fabio, ITC-irst Italy
- Pianta Emanuele, ITC-irst Italy
- Picone Joseph, Mississippi State University USA
- Piperidis Stelios, Institute for Language and Speech Processing Greece
- Pirrelli Vito, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale CNR, Pisa Italy
- Poesio Massimo, University of Essex / Universita’ di Trento UK/Italy
- Pols Louis, Inst. of Phonetic Sciences / ACLC, Univ. of Amsterdam The Netherlands
- Popescu-Belis Andrei, ISSCO/TIM/ETI, University of Geneva Switzerland
- Popov Borislav, Ontotext, Sirma Group Bulgaria
- Povlsen Claus, University of Copenhagen Denmark
- Power Richard, CRC, Open University UK
- Prodanof Irina, CNR-Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale Pisa Italy
- Proszeky Gabor, MorphoLogic & Pázmány University, Budapest Hungary
- Quasthoff Uwe, Leipzig University, Computer Science Dept. Germany
- Radev Dragomir, U. Michigan USA
- Rajman Martin, EPFL Switzerland
- Rambow Owen, Columbia University USA
- Reeder Florence, MITRE Corporation USA
- Relaño Jose, Telefónica I+D Spain
- Ribarov Kiril, Charles University Czech Republic
- Riccardi Giuseppe, University of Trento Italy
- Rinaldi Fabio IFI, University of Zurich Switzerland
- Rodriguez Juan Jose, Telefónica Research & Development Spain
- Role François, University of Paris 5 France
- Romary Laurent, CNRS France
- Rose Carolyn, Carnegie Mellon University, LTI-HCII USA
- Rösner Dietmar, Otto-von-Guericke Univ. Magdeburg Germany
- Roux Justus, Stellenbosch University Centre for Language and Speech Tech., Stellenbosch South Africa
- Rubio Antonio, Universidad de Granada Spain
- Ruimy Nilda, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR, Pisa Italy
- Ruus Hanne, Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen Denmark
- Saggion Horacio, University of Sheffield UK
- Sagisaka Yoshinori, Waseda univ. / ATR Japan
- Sågvall-Hein Anna, Uppsala University Sweden
- Saint-Dizier Patrick, IRIT-CNRS France
- Sanfilippo Antonio, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory USA
- Santos Diana, Linguateca & SINTEF ICT Norway
- Schmitt Laurent, INIST-CNRS France
- Schulte im Walde Sabine, Computational Linguistics, Saarland University Germany
- Schütz Jörg, IAI Saarbrücken Germany
- Semmar Nasredine, CEA France
- Sharoff Serge, University of Leeds UK
- Shirai Kiyoaki, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Japan
- Siegel Melanie, DFKI GmbH Germany
- Siemund Rainer, Nuance Communications Germany
- Simov Kiril, Linguistic Modelling Laboratory, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Bulgaria
- Siroux Jacques ,INRIA/IRISA/CORDIAL France
- Smrz Pavel Brno, University of Technology Czech Republic
- Sonntag Daniel, DFKI Germany
- Soria Claudia, CNR-ILC Italy
- Sornlertlamvanich Virach, TCL, NICT Thailand
- Stevenson Suzanne, University of Toronto Canada
- Strapparava Carlo, ITC-irst Italy
- Strassel Stephanie, Linguistic Data Consortium USA
- Su Keh-Yih, Behavior Design Corporation Taiwan
- Suzuki Hisami, Microsoft Research USA
- Tadic Marko, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb Croatia
- Takezawa Toshiyuki, ATR Spoken Language Communication Research Laboratories Japan
- Talley Jim, Motorola Labs, Center for Human Interaction Research USA
- Teunissen Lisanne, Nederlandse Taalunie The Netherlands
- Thoiron Philippe, CRTT, Université Lyon 2 France
- Thurmair Gregor, linguatec Germany
- Tokunaga Takenobu, Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan
- Toledano Doroteo T., Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Spain
- Toporowska Gronostaj Maria, Institutionen för svenska språket; Språkdata, Göteborgs Univ. Sweden
- Trancoso Isabel, INESC ID / IST Portugal
- Trippel Thorsten, Universität Bielefeld, Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft Germany
- Tsujii Junichi, Univeristy of Tokyo and University of Manchester Japan/UK
- Tufis Dan, Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence Romania
- Uí Dhonnchadha Elaine, Trinity College Dublin Ireland
- Underwood Nancy, ISSCO/TIM/ETI, University of Geneva Switzerland
- Van den Bosch Antal, Tilburg University The Netherlands
- Van den Heuvel Henk, SPEX/CLST, Radboud University Nijmegen The Netherlands
- Van Leeuwen David, TNO Human Factors The Netherlands
- Vanderwende Lucy, Microsoft Research USA
- Vanni Michelle, US Army Research Laboratory USA
- Verdejo M. Felisa, NLP&IR Group- UNED Portugal
- Verhagen Marc, Brandeis University USA
- Vertan Cristina, University of Hamburg, Dept. of Natural Language Processing Germany
- Vetulani Zygmunt, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan Poland
- Vieu Laure ,IRIT-CNRS & LOA-ISTC-CNR Italy
- Villada Moiron, Begoña Alfa-Informatica, University of Groningen The Netherlands
- Villarrubia Luis, Telefonica I+D Spain
- Villemonte de La Clergerie Eric, INRIA France
- Vilnat Anne, LIMSI-CNRS France
- Vivaldi Jorge, Applied Linguistic Institute - Pompeu Fabra University Spain
- Voss Clare , ARL USA
- Vossen Piek, Irion Technologies The Netherlands
- Waals Juliette , A.J.S. Fontys Hogescholen, Tilburg The Netherlands
- Wanner Leo ,ICREA and Pompeu Fabra University Spain
- Wedekind Jürgen, Center for Language Technology, University of Copenhagen Denmark
- White John, Northrop Grumman Corporation USA
- Wilks Yorick, University of Sheffield UK
- Wittenburg Peter, MPI for Psycholinguistics The Netherlands
- Yankova Milena, Ontotext Lab, Sirma Group Bulgaria
- Zanzotto Fabio Massimo, University of Milano-Bicocca Italy
- Zhao Jun Chinese, Academy of Sciences China
Local Advisory Committee
- Giovanni Adorni, Università degli Studi di Genova, Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Telematica, Genova, Italy
- Daniele Caviglia, Università degli Studi di Genova, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Biofisica e Elettronica, Genova, Italy
- Anna Maria Colla, ELSAG, Genova, Italy
- Ana Lourdes De Heriz, Università degli Studi di Genova, Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere, Genova, Italy
- Maria Ferraris, Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattiche del CNR, Genova, Italy
- Maurizio Martelli, Università degli Studi di Genova, Dipartimento di Informatica e Scienze dell’Informazione, Genova, Italy
- Franco Montanari, Universita’ degli Studi di Genova, Facolta’ di Lettere e Filosofia, Dipartimento di Archeologia e Filologia Classica, Genova, Italy
- Giovanna Morgavi, Istituto di Elettronica e di Ingegneria dell’Informazione e delle Telecomunicazioni del CNR, Genova, Italy
- Michela Ott, Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattiche del CNR, Genova, Italy
Local Organising Committee
- Lucia Marconi (Chair), ILC-CNR - Genova Unit
- Paola Cutugno, ILC-CNR - Genova Unit
- Daniela Ratti, ILC-CNR - Genova Unit
LREC Organising Committee
- Paola Baroni, ILC-CNR - Pisa, Italy
- Martine Chollet, ELRA/ELDA - Paris, France
- Sara Goggi, ILC-CNR - Pisa, Italy
- Olivier Hamon, ELRA/ELDA - Paris, France
- Anne Kuhn, ELRA/ELDA - Paris, France
- Hélène Mazo, ELRA/ELDA - Paris, France
- Vincenzo Parrinelli, ILC-CNR - Pisa, Italy
- Valérie Raymond-El Moussaid, ELRA/ELDA - Paris, France
- Mathieu Robin-Vinet, ELRA/ELDA - Paris, France
- Sergio Rossi, ILC-CNR - Pisa, Italy