Officers & Organizing Committee

SIGDAT is run by consensus vote of its organizing committee, consisting of the original SIGDAT organizers and subsequent SIGDAT conference chairs and co-chairs. SIGDAT has established a Conference Board to help organize the selection of the locations of upcoming EMNLP conferences.

Officers in 2024

• President: Isabelle Augenstein, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  
• Vice President: Alice Oh, KAIST, Republic of Korea
  
• Vice President-Elect: Kai-Wei Chang, UCLA, USA
  
• Secretary-Treasurer: Juan Pino, Meta, USA
  

Previous Officers

Conference Board Members

• All current SIGDAT officers
  
• The current ACL treasurer, ex-officio
  
• Priscilla Rasmussen
  
• Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto, Canada
  
• David Yarowsky, Johns Hopkins University, USA (North American Representative)
  
• Sebastian Riedel, University College London, UK (European Representative)
  
• Pascale Fung, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, China (Asian Representative)
  
• Yuji Matsumoto, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan (Asian Representative)

Advisory Board Members

• Iryna Gurevych, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
  
• Ani Nenkova, Adobe, USA
  
• Regina Barzilay, MIT, USA
  
• Chris Callison-Burch, University of Pennsylvania, USA
  
• Claire Cardie, Cornell University, USA
  
• Xavier Carreras, Naver Labs Europe, France
  
• Eugene Charniak, Brown University, USA
  
• David Chiang, University of Notre Dame, USA
  
• Ken Church, IBM, USA
  
• Michael Collins, Columbia University, USA
  
• Ido Dagan, Bar Ilan University, Israel
  
• Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium
  
• Kevin Duh, Johns Hopkins University, USA
  
• Jason Eisner, Johns Hopkins University, USA
  
• Eva Ejerhed, Umea University, Sweden
  
• Zhou Fuqiu, ZTE, China
  
• Pascale Fung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
  
• Eric Gaussier, Université Joseph Fourier, France
  
• Changning Huang, Microsoft, China
  
• Jan Hajic, Charles University, Czech Republic
  
• Donna Harman, NIST, USA
  
• James Henderson, XRCE, France
  
• Julia Hockenmaier, UIUC, USA
  
• Rebecca Hwa, University of Pittsburgh, USA
  
• Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA
  
• Kentaro Inui, Tohoku University, Japan
  
• Pierre Isabelle, CNRC-NRC, Canada
  
• Jing Jiang, Singapore Management University, Singapore
  
• Dan Jurafsky, Stanford University, USA
  
• Philipp Koehn, Johns Hopkins University, USA
  
• Mark Johnson, Macquarie University, Australia
  
• Hang Li, Toutiao, China
  
• Dekang Lin, Google, USA
  
• Lluís Màrquez, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
  
• Yuji Matsumoto, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
  
• Paola Merlo, Université de Genève, Switzerland
  
• Rada Mihalcea, University of Michigan, USA
  
• Ray Mooney, University of Texas, USA
  
• Alessandro Moschitti, Qatar Computing Research Institute
  
• Hwee Tou Ng, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  
• Vincent Ng, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
  
• Martha Palmer, University of Colorado Boulder
  
• Marius Pasca, Google, USA
  
• Bo Pang, Google, USA
  
• Sebastian Riedel, University College London, UK
  
• Ellen Riloff, University of Utah, USA
  
• Hinrich Schütze, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  
• Noah Smith, University of Washington/AI2, USA
  
• Jian Su, I2R, Singapore
  
• Keh-Yih Su, IIS Sinica, Taiwan
  
• Jun’ichi Tsujii, AIST, Japan
  
• Evelyne Tzoukermann, Streamsage, USA
  
• Xiaojun Wan, Peking University, China
  
• Ralph Weischedel, BBN, USA
  
• Dekai Wu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
  
• David Yarowsky, Johns Hopkins University, USA