Organizing Committee

• General Chair:
• Keikichi Hirose (The University of Tokyo)
• General Co-Chair:
• Yoshinori Sagisaka (Waseda University)
• Technical Program Committee Chair:
• Satoshi Nakamura (NICT)
• Technical Program Committee Co-Chair:
• Minoru Tsuzaki (Kyoto City University of Arts)
• Special Sessions:
• Keiichi Tokuda (Nagoya Institute of Technology)
• Hiroaki Kato (NICT)
• Tutorials:
• Masato Akagi (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
• Tatsuya Kawahara (Kyoto University)
• Satellite Events:
• Hideki Kawahara (Wakayama University)
• Yoichi Yamashita (Ritsumeikan University)
• Student Award:
• Tomoki Toda (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
• Exhibits & Industries:
• Kazuya Takeda (Nagoya University)
• Makoto Shozakai (Asahi Kasei Corporation)
• Finance:
• Takayuki Arai (Sophia University)
• Publication:
• Takao Kobayashi (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
• Local Arrangement:
• Tetsunori Kobayashi (Waseda University)
• Shigeki Okawa (Chiba Institute of Technology)
• Kazunori MANO(Shibaura Institute of Technology)
• Hideaki Kikuchi (Waseda University)
• Minoru Kohata (Chiba Institute of Technology)
• Registration:
• Shigeki Sagayama (The University of Tokyo)
• Koji Iwano (Tokyo City University)
• Publicity:
• Koichi Shinoda (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
• Secretary:
• Nobuaki Minematsu (The University of Tokyo)
• International Affairs:
• Goh Kawai (Hokkaido University)
• Web master:
• Noboru Takahashi (The University of Tokyo)

International Liaison

• Nick CAMPBELL ( Trinity College Dublin)

Advisory Members

• Denis Burnham (University of Western Sydney, Australia)
• Anne Cutler (Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands)
• Hiroya Fujisaki (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Sadaoki Furui (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
• Roger K. Moore (The University of Sheffield, UK)
• John Ohala (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
• Douglas O' Shaughnessy (Université du Québec, Canada)
• Tanja Schultz (Universität Karlsruhe, Germany)
• Katsuhiko Shirai (President, Waseda University, Japan)
• Isabel Trancoso (INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal)

Area Coordinators

• Masahiro Araki (Kyoto Institute of Technology)
• Mary Beckman (The Ohio State University)
• Jared Bernstein (Ordinate Corp.)
• Alan Black (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Nick Campbell (Trinity College)
• Jianwu Dang (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
• Li Deng (Microsoft Research)
• Pascale Fung (The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology)
• Mark Gales (University of Cambridge)
• Jean-Luc Gauvain (The Computer Sciences Laboratory for Mechanics and Engineering Sciences [LIMSI])
• Satoshi Imaizumi (Prefectural University of Hiroshima)
• Toshio Irino (Wakayama University)
• Akinori Ito (Tohoku University)
• Naoto Iwahashi (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)
• Hisashi Kawai (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)
• Diane Kewley-Port (Indiana University)
• Genichiro Kikui (NTT Cyber Communications Laboratory Group)
• Norihide Kitaoka (Nagoya University)
• Bastiaan Kleijn (Royal Institute of Technology [KTH])
• Akinobu Lee (Nagoya Institute of Technology)
• Haizhou Li (Institute for Infocomm Research)
• Kikuo Maekawa (The National Institute for Japanese Language)
• Kazunori Mano (Shibaura Institute of Technology)
• Tomoko Matsui (The Institute of Statistical Mathematics)
• Michael McTear (University of Ulster)
• Helen Meng (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
• Roberto Pieraccini (SpeechCycle)
• Koichi Shinoda (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
• Tetsuya Takiguchi (Kobe University)