Conference Chair:
Fuji Ren (The University of Tokushima, Japan)

International Advisory Committee Co-Chairs:
Christian Boitet (GETA, CLIPS-IMAG, France)
Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR, Italy)
Taiyi Huang (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Ruslan Mitkov (The University of Wolverhampton, UK)
Jun-ichi Tsujii (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Lotfi Zadeh (The University of California, USA)
Zixin Zhuang (Beijing Multimedia & Network Lab, China)

Keynote Speakers
Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR, Italy)
Eduard Hovy (The University of Southern California, USA)
Adam Kilgarriff (The University of Brighton, UK)
Ruslan Mitkov (The University of Wolverhampton, UK)
Jun-ichi Tsujii (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Lotfi Zadeh (The University of California, USA)

Program Committee Chair
Yixin Zhong (The University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Program Committee Co-Chairs
Alexander Gelbukh (National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico)
Kang K. Yen (Florida International University, USA)
Chengqing Zong (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Program Committee
Eneko Agirre (Basque Country University, Spain)
Kenji Araki (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Kalina Bontcheva (The University of Sheffield, UK)
Keh-Jiann Chen (Academia Sinica, Taiwan, China)
Zhaoxiong Chen (RCCLIE, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Key-Sun Choi (KAIST, Korea)
Walter Daelemans (The University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Zhendong Dong (RCCLIE, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Limin Du (Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Antje Duesterhoeft (The University of Applied Science Wismar, Germany)
Zhiwei Feng (Institute of Applied Linguistics, Ministry of Education, China)
Koiti Hasida (Electrotechnical Laboratory, Japan)
Chu-Ren Huang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan, China)
Heyan Huang (RCCLIE, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Taiyi Huang (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Aravind Joshi (The University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Martin Kay (Stanford University, USA)
Kenji Kita (The University of Tokushima, Japan)
Richard Kittredge (The University of Montreal, Canada)
Shingo Kuroiwa (The University of Tokushima, Japan)
K.L. Kwok (The City University of New York, USA)
Kim-Teng Lua (NUS, Singapore)
Robert W.P. Luk (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China)
Qing Ma (Ryukoku University, Japan)
Petros Maragos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Elisabeth Metais (CEDRIC/CNAM, France)
Dan Moldovan (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Diego Molla (Macquarie University, Australia)
Jian-Yun Nie (The University de Montreal, Canada)
Wee Keong Ng (NTU, Singapore)
Manuel Palomar (The University of Alicante, Spain)
Ted Pedersen (The University of Minnesota in Duluth, USA)
Horacio Rodriguez (The Universitat Polit┬cnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Ivan Sag (Stanford University, USA)
Grigori Sidorov (National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico)
Hongchi Shi (The University of Missouri, USA)
Keh-Yih Su (Science-based Industrial Park, Taiwan, China)
Junping Sun (Nova Southern University, USA)
Maosong Sun (Tsinghua University, China)
John Tait (University of Sunderland, UK)
Arturo Trujillo (Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd in Bracknell, UK)
Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Germany)
Felisa Verdejo (ETS Ingenieros Industriales, Spain)
Manuel Vilares-Ferro (University of Vigo, Spain)
Huilin Wang (Institute of Scientific and Technical Information, China)
Yorick Wilks (The University of Sheffield, UK)
Dekai Wu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
Fei Xia (IBM, USA)
Bo Xu (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Tianshun Yao (North-east University, China)
David Yarowsky (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Shiwen Yu (Peking University, China)
Zaharin Yusoff (University of Sains, Malaysia)
Bo Zhang (Tsinghua University, China)

Organizing Committee Co-Chairs
Mengqi Zhou (Chinese Institute of Electronics, China)
Youqi Cao (Chinese Information Processing Society of China, China)

Publication Co-chairs
Amaury Caballero (Florida International University, USA)
Mengqi Zhou (Chinese Institute of Electronics, China)

Publicity Chair
Weiquan Liu (Beijing Multimedia & Network Lab, China)