40th Anniversary Meeting
July 7 - 12, 2002
Hosted by
The Computer and Information Science Department
and the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
General Conference Chair
Pierre Isabelle (XRCE Grenoble, France)
Program Commitee
Program Co-Chairs
Eugene Charniak (Brown University, USA)
Dekang Lin (University of Alberta, Canada)
Area Chairs
Discourse and Dialogue: Daniel Marcu (Information Sciences Institute, USC)
Generation and Multi-Modality: Stephan Busemann (DFKI GmbH)
Translation and Multilinguality: Keh-Yih Su (Behavior Design Corp.)
Lexicon and Semantics: Bonnie Dorr (University of Maryland)
Speech, Language Modeling and Statistical Methods: Steve Abney (AT&T Research)
Word Segmentation, Shallow Parsing, Chunking and Tagging: Jan Hajic (Charles University, Prague)
Syntax, Grammars, Morphology and Phonology: Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh)
Parsing: John Carroll (University of Sussex)
NLP Applications: Ellen Riloff (University of Utah)
Local Arrangements Chair
Martha Palmer (University of Pennsylvannia, USA)
Student Workshop Chairs
Alexander Koller (University of Saarbrucken, Germany)
Gideon Mann (John Hopkins University, USA)
Exhibits/Sponsorships Chair
Deborah Dahl (UNISYS, USA)
Tutorials Chair
Hwee Tou Ng (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Workshops Chair
Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Demos Chair
Ronnie Smith (East Carolina University, USA)
Publications Chair
Dragomir Radev (University of Michigan, USA)
Conference dates
Tutorials: Sunday, July 7, 2002
Main Meeting: Monday, July 8, 2002 through Wednesday, July 10, 2002
Workshops: Thursday, July 11, 2002 and Friday, July 12, 2002
Conference locations
Main conference: Perelman Quadrangle on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania
Parallel sessions: Houston Hall
Exhibit hall: Logan Hall
Plenary sessions: Irvine Auditorium
Open house: Institute for Research in Cognitive Science