Committee
General Chair
Kazumasa Enami, NICT, Japan
General Vice Co-Chairs
Thomas DeFanti, University of California, San Diego, USA
Qun Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Hiromitsu Wakana, NICT, Japan
Technical Program Committee
Co-Chairs
Kentaro Inui, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Satoshi Nakamura, NICT, Japan
Fumio Okano, NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories, Japan
Track Chairs
Track 1: <Speech and Language Processing>: Atsushi Fujii, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Track 2: <Ultra Realistic Communications>: Naomi Inoue, NICT, Japan
Track 3: <Sensor and Human-interaction>: Tatsuya Yamazaki, NICT, Japan
- Akio Ando, NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories, Japan
- Hiroshi Ando, NICT, Japan
- Martin S. Banks, UC Berkeley, USA
- HyunSang Cho, KAIST, Korea
- Khalid Choukri, ELDA, France
- Marcello Federico, FBK/IRST, Italy
- Jukka Häkinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Munpyo Hong, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
- Hitoshi Isahara, NICT, Japan
- Yukio Iwaya, Tohoku University, Japan
- Ken Kaneiwa, NICT, Japan
- Takashi Kawai, Waseda University, Japan
- Kentaro Kayama, NICT, Japan
- Junichi Kazama, NICT, Japan
- Yutaka Kidawara, NICT, Japan
- Kyeong Soo Kim, Swansea University, UK
- Youngjae Kim, KAIST, Korea
- Taiichiro Kurita, NICT, Japan
- Yongjin Kwon, Korea AeroSpace University, Korea
- Hisashi Miyamori, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan
- Yohei Murakami, NICT, Japan
- Masaki Murata, NICT, Japan
- Keisuke Nakano, Niigata University, Japan
- Makoto Okui, NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories, Japan
- Tanja Schultz, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
- Mahdad N. Shirazi, NICT, Japan
- Yasuyuki Sumi, Kyoto University, Japan
- Eiichiro Sumita, NICT, Japan
- Yoiti Suzuki, Tohoku University, Japan
- Yasuhiro Takaki, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
- Kazuya Takeda, Nagoya University, Japan
- Kentaro Torisawa, NICT, Japan
- Chiu-yu Tseng, Institute of Linguistics Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- Kiyotaka Uchimoto, NICT, Japan
- Takehito Utsuro, University of Tsukuba, Japan
- Andy Way, Dublin City University, Ireland
- Andrew Woods, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
- Wieslaw Woszczyk, McGill University, Canada
- Xing Xie, Microsoft Research Asia, China
- Daqing Zhang, Institut TELECOM & Management SudParis, France
- Aoying Zhou, East China Normal University, China
Publicity Co-Chairs
Jung-Young Son, Daegu University, Korea
Kentaro Torisawa, NICT, Japan
Local Arrangement Co-Chairs
Kiyoharu Aizawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Taiichiro Kurita, NICT, Japan
Finance Co-Chairs
Kazuhiro Kimura, NICT, Japan
Fumio Okano, NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories, Japan
Publication Co-Chairs
Hiroyuki Morikawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Tatsuya Yamazaki, NICT, Japan
Demo Chair
Kazuhiro Kimura, NICT, Japan
Technical Advisors
Michitaka Hirose, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Takashi Matsuyama, Kyoto University, Japan
Steering Committee
- Kiyoharu Aizawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan
- Carl K. Chang, Iowa State University, USA
- Thomas DeFanti, University of California, San Diego, USA
- Kazumasa Enami, NICT, Japan
- Kentaro Inui, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
- Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto University, Japan
- Yutaka Kidawara, NICT, Japan
- Kazuhiro Kimura, NICT, Japan
- Taiichiro Kurita, NICT, Japan
- Qun Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Hiroyuki Morikawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan
- Satoshi Nakamura, NICT, Japan
- Fumio Okano, NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories, Japan
- Makoto Okui, NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories, Japan
- Jung-Young Son, Daegu University, Korea
- Kentaro Torisawa, NICT, Japan
- Alex Waibel, Carnegie Mellon University, USA and University of Karlsruhe, Germany
- Hiromitsu Wakana, NICT, Japan
- Tatsuya Yamazaki, NICT, Japan
- Aoying Zhou, East China Normal University, China
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