Senior Area Chairs

​Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics

SACs: Tanmoy Chakraborty, David Jurgens, Diyi Yang

Dialogue and Interactive Systems

SACs:  Srinivas Bangalore, Yun-Nung Chen,  Dilek Hakkani-Tur,  David Traum, Zhou Yu

Discourse and Pragmatics

SACs: Junyi (Jessy) Li, Manfred Stede, Bonnie Webber

Ethics in NLP

SACs: Saif  Mohammad, Malvina Nissim

Generation

SACs:  Asli Celikyilmaz, Michael Elhadad, Claire Gardent, Chenghua Lin

Information Extraction

SACs: Heng Ji, Marius Pasca, Alan Ritter, Satoshi Sekine, Veselin Stoyanov

Information Retrieval and Text Mining

SACs: Marti Hearst, Jing Jiang, Hang Li

Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP

SACs: Yonatan Belinkov, Anna Rogers, Hassan Sajjad , Anders Søgaard

Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics, and Beyond

SACs: Marie-Francine Moens, William Wang

Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics

SACs: Afra Alishahi,  Frank Keller

Machine Learning for NLP

SACs: Nikolaos  Aletras, Mohit Bansal, Shafiq Joty, Andre Martins, Kristina Toutanova, Andreas Vlachos

Machine Translation and Multilinguality

SACs: Francisco (Paco) Guzmán,  Kenneth Heafield, Philipp Koehn, Rico Sennrich, Thamar Solorio, Taro Watanabe

NLP Applications

SACs:  Wei Gao, Beata Beigman Klebanov, Jimmy Lin, Horacio Saggion, Joel Tetreault, Karin Verspoor

Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation

SACs: Ryan Cotterell, Alexis Palmer

Question Answering

SACs:Mohit Iyyer, Sanda Harabagiu, Alessandro Moschitti 

Resources and Evaluation

SACs: Katrin Erk, Pablo Gamallo, Agata Savary, Torsten Zesch

Semantics: Lexical

SACs: Carlos  Ramisch, Ekaterina Shutova, Ivan Vulic

Semantics: Sentence level, Textual Inference and Other areas

SACs: Sam Bowman, Goran Glavaš, Wei Lu, Valeria de Paiva, Renata Vieira

Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining

SACs: Iryna  Gurevych, Yulan He, Roman  Klinger, Bing Liu

Speech and Multimodality

SACs: Grzegorz Chrupała, Yang Liu

Summarization

SACs: Annie Louis, Kathleen McKeown, Dragomir Radev

Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing

SACs: Joakim Nivre, Barbara Plank

Theme (Language Diversity: From Low Resource to Endangered Languages 

SACs: Emily  Bender, Laurent Besacier, Steven Bird