Year Keynote speakers 2002 James Pustejovsky, Misha Pavel, Yorick Wilks, Ronald Allan Cole 2004 Kenneth Church, Patrick Hanks, James Pustejovsky, Jan Odijk 2006 Eduard Hovy, Louise Guthrie, James Pustejovsky, Eva Hudlicka 2007 Frederick Jelinek, Eva Hajičová, David Nahamoo, Heinrich Niemann, Renato De Mori 2008 Jerry Hobbs, Elizabeth Shriberg, Graeme Hirst 2009 Tilman Becker, Louise Guthrie, Hynek Heřmanský, Frederick Jelinek, Elmar Nöth, Roberto Pieraccini 2010 John Carroll,[5] Christiane Fellbaum, Miroslav Novak, Frederick Jelinek 2011 Hynek Heřmanský, Adam Sporka, Siegfried Kunzmann 2012 Ruslan Mitkov, Walter Daelemans, Adam Kilgarriff 2013 Hynek Hermansky, Ralf Steinberger, Ron Cole, Viktor Zakharov 2014 Ralph Grishman, Bernardo Magnini, Salim Roukos 2015 Hermann Ney, Dan Roth, Björn W. Schuller, Peter D. Turney, Alexander Waibel 2016 Hinrich Schütze, Ido Dagan 2017 Eva Hajičová, Tomáš Mikolov, Michael Picheny, Rico Sennrich, Lucia Specia 2018 Kenneth W. Church, Piek Vossen, Isabel Trancoso