- Eneko Agirre, UBC
- Breck Balwin, Alias-i
- Danushka Bollegala, Tokyo University
- Jeremy Ellman, Northumbria University
- Donna Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- Eduard Hovy, ISI
- Dmitri Kalashnikov, U. of California, Irvine
- Paul Kalmar, Fair Issac
- Bernardo Magnini, FBK-irst, Italy
- Gideon Mann, Google
- Yutaka Matsuo, Tokyo U.
- Manabu Okumura, Tokyo Inst. of Tech.
- Ted Pedersen, U. of Minnesota
- Massimo Poesio, U. of Essex
- Maarten de Rijke, U. of Amsterdam
- Jamie Taylor, Freebase
- Mark Sanderson, U. of Sheffield
- Arjen P. de Vries, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica