Area Chairs

- Linguistics and Cognitive Science:
Renfen Hu (Beijing Normal University), Xiaofei Lu (The Pennsylvania State University)

- Basic Theories and Methods of Computational Linguistics:
Zhenghua Li (Soochow University), Pengfei Liu (Carnegie Mellon University)

- Information Retrieval, Dialogue System and Q&A:
Jiafeng Guo (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Qingyao Ai (The university of Utah)

- Text Generation and Text Abstracts:
Rui Yan (Peking University), Jing Li (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

- Knowledge Mapping and Information Extraction:
Wenliang Chen (Soochow University), Bowei Zou (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)

- Machine Translation:
Shujian Huang (Nanjing University), Hui Huang (University of Macau)

- National Language Processing:
Yating Yang (Xinjiang Physics and Chemistry Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Chenhui Chu (Kyoto University)

- Language Resources and Evaluation:
Junsheng Zhou (Nanjing Normal University), Wei Lu (Singapore University of Technology and Design)

- Social Computing and Sentiment Analysis:
Rui Xia (Nanjing University of Science and Technology), Lin Gui (The University of Warwick)

- Natural Language Processing Applications:
Chenliang Li (Wuhan University), Jiashu Zhao (Wilfrid Laurier University)