Organization

Scientific Coordination: Bernardo Magnini (FBK-irst, Trento) and Amedeo Cappelli (ISTI-CNR, Pisa - CELCT, Trento)

Organization and Contact: Manuela Speranza (FBK-irst, Trento)

Web site & Proceedings: Valentina Bartalesi Lenzi (CELCT, Trento) and Rachele Sprugnoli (CELCT, Trento)

Text Tasks Organization:

• PoS-Tagging: Giuseppe Attardi (Uni. Pisa) and Maria Simi (Uni. Pisa)
• Parsing: Cristina Bosco (Uni. Torino), Alessandro Mazzei (Uni. Torino), Vincenzo Lombardo (Uni. Torino), Alessandro Lenci (Uni. Pisa), Felice dell'Orletta (Uni. Pisa) and Simonetta Montemagni (ILC-CNR, Pisa)
• Lexical Substitution: Antonio Toral (ILC-CNR, Pisa)
• Entity Recognition: Valentina Bartalesi Lenzi (CELCT, Trento), Manuela Speranza (FBK-irst, Trento) and Rachele Sprugnoli (CELCT, Trento)
• Textual Entailment: Johan Bos (Uni. Roma "La Sapienza"), Marco Pennacchiotti (Saarland University) and Fabio Massimo Zanzotto (Uni. Roma "Tor Vergata")

Speech Tasks Organization:

Scientific coordinators for Speech Technology Evaluation: Francesco Cutugno (Uni. Napoli "Federico II") and Mauro Falcone (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Roma)

• Connected Digits Recognition: Gianpaolo Coro (ABLA, Milano), Roberto Gretter (FBK-irst, Trento) and Marco Matassoni (FBK-irst, Trento)
• Spoken Dialogue Systems Evaluation: Giuseppe Riccardi (Uni. Trento), Francesco Cutugno (Uni. Napoli "Federico II"), Roberto Pieraccini (Speechcycle, New York) and Morena Danieli (Loquendo, Torino)
• Speaker Identity Verification (Application & Forensic): Guido Aversano (Nuance Communications, Inc.), Niko Brümmer (Agnitio, Madrid) and Luciano Romito (Uni. Calabria, Cosenza)