Applications Involving LRs and Evaluation for any area/domain of language and speech processing
- Sophia Ananiadou (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
- José M. Gómez Pérez (Expert.AI, Spain)
Bias, Offensive and Non-inclusive Language; Guardrails, filters
- Tommaso Caselli (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands)
- Flor Miriam Plaza Del Arco (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Corpora, Treebanks and Annotation; Tools, Systems and Platforms
- Amir Zeldes (Georgetown University, USA)
- Ines Rehbein (University of Münster/U-Mannheim, Germany)
- Deniz Zeyrek (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)
- Sandra Kuebler (Indiana University, USA)
Dialogue, Conversational Systems, Chatbots, Human-Robot Interaction
- Zoraida Callejas (University of Granada, Spain)
- Kallirroi Georgila (University of Southern California (USC), USA)
Digital Humanities, Cultural Heritage and Computational Social Science
- Petya Osenova (Sofia University “St. Kl Ohridski” and IICT-BAS, Bulgaria)
- Alexander Mehler (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
Discourse and Pragmatics
- Massimo Poesio (Queen Mary Uni, United Kingdom)
- Yulia Grishina (Amazon, Germany)
Document Classification, Information Retrieval and Cross-lingual Retrieval
- William Hersh (Oregon Health & Science University, USA)
- Gareth J. F. Jones (Dublin City University, Ireland)
- Kirk Roberts (UTHealth Houston, USA)
Evaluation, Validation, Quality Assurance and Benchmarking Methodologies
- Elena Cabrio (Université Côte d’Azur, Inria, CNRS, I3S, France)
- Paolo Rosso (Univeridad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain)
Inference, Reasoning, Question Answering
- Yiming Cui (iFLYTEK Research, China)
- Yao Lu (University College London, United Kingdom)
Information Extraction and Text Mining
- Mark Finlayson (Florida International University, USA)
- Diana Inkpen (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Interpretability/explainability of language models and language and speech processing tools
- Fabio Massimo Zanzotto (Uni Roma 2, Italy)
- Giuseppe Attanasio (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
Knowledge discovery/representation (knowledge graphs, linked data, terminologies, lexicons, ontologies, etc.)
- Paul Buitelaar, Galway (University of Galway, Ireland)
- Jorge Gracia (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Language Modeling and LRs (including training, fine-tuning, representation learning, and generation of synthetic data)
- Lucia Passaro (Uni Pisa, Italy)
- Suzan Verberne (Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands)
Less-Resourced/Endangered/Less-studied Languages
- David Ifeoluwa Adelani (McGill University / MILA, Canada)
- Antonios Anastasopoulos (Geroge Mason University and Archimedes, Athena RC, USA)
Lexicon and Semantics
- Gerardo Sierra (UNAM, Mexico)
- Martha Lewis (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- Annemarie Friedrich (University of Augsburg, Germany)
Machine Learning Methods and Techniques for Language and Speech Processing, including efficient/low-resource methods
- Vincent Vandeghinste (KU Leuven / INT, Belgium)
- Bram Vanroy (KU Leuven / INT, Belgium)
Multilinguality, Machine Translation (including Speech-to-Speech) and Translation Aids
- Taro Watanabe (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
- Houda Bouamor (Carnegie Mellon Universtity in Qatar, Qatar)
Multimodality, Cross-modality (including Sign Languages, Vision and Other Modalities), Multimodal Applications, Grounded Language Acquisition
- Sarah Ebling (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
- Sriparna Saha (Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India)
Natural Language Generation and Summarization
- Marko Robnik Šikonja (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
- Antoine Doucet (University of La Rochelle, France)
Simplification, Plain Language and Assistive Technologies
- Horacio Saggion (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
- Anna Matamala (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain)
Opinion & Argument Mining, Sentiment Analysis, Emotion Recognition/Generation
- Luis Espinosa Anke (Cardiff University, United Kingdom)
- Haris Papageorgiou (ILSP/Athena RC, Greece)
Parsing, Tagging, Chunking, Grammar, Syntax, Morphosyntax, Morphology
- Magda Ševčíková (UFAL, Czechia)
- Parameswari Krishnamurthy (NITI, Hyderabad, India)
Policy and Legal Issues (including Language Resource Infrastructures, Interoperabillity, Standards for LRs, Metadata) – Ethics, Research Reproducibility and Replicability, and Environmental Issues
- Catia Cucchiarini (DLU/ Radboud University, The Netherlands)
- Tommi Jauhiainen (U Helsinki, Finland)
Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Linguistics and Linguistic Theories
- Rui Mao (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
- Tan Yue (Peking University, China)
Social Media Processing
- Costanza Navarretta (UCPH, Denmark)
- Jose Camacho-Collados (Cardiff University, United Kingdom)
Speech Resources and Processing (including Phonetic Databases, Phonology, Prosody, Speech Recognition, Synthesis and Spoken Language Understanding)
- Christoph Draxler (LMU Munich, Germany)
- Isabel Trancoso (INESC-ID, Portugal)