Committee         General Chair           Yuichi Matsushima, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan         General Vice Chairs           Kazumasa Enami, NICT, Japan   Hiromitsu Wakana, NICT, Japan         Technical Program Committee           Chair: Satoshi Nakamura, NICT/ATR, Japan   Vice Chair: Naomi Inoue, NICT/ATR, Japan        - Akio Ando, NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories, Japan        - Martin S. Banks, UC Berkeley, USA        - Khalid Choukri, ELDA, France        - Marcello Federico, FBK/IRST, Italy        - Sidney Fels, University of British Columbia, Canada        - Jukka Häkkinen, University of Helsinki, Finland        - Munpyo Hong, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea        - Kentaro Inui, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan        - Hitoshi Isahara, NICT, Japan        - Yukio Iwaya, Tohoku University, Japan        - Ken Kaneiwa, NICT, Japan        - Takashi Kawai, Waseda University, Japan        - Kentaro Kayama, NICT, Japan        - Yutaka Kidawara, NICT, Japan        - Kyeong Soo Kim, Swansea University, UK        - Hisashi Miyamori, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan        - Fumio Okano, NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories, Japan        - Makoto Okui, NICT, Japan        - Tanja Schultz, Carnegie Melon University, USA        - Yasuyuki Sumi, Kyoto University, Japan        - Eiichiro Sumita, NICT/ATR, 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        - Tatsuya Yamazaki, NICT, Japan        - Kwon Yongjin, Korea AeroSpace University, Korea        - Daqing Zhang, Institut TELECOM & Management SudParis, France         Demo Chair           Kazuhiro Kimura, NICT, Japan         Technical Advisors           Takashi Matsuyama, Kyoto University, Japan   Michitaka Hirose, Tokyo University, Japan         Local Arrangement Co-Chairs           Kazuhiro Kimura, NICT   Yukio Takahashi, NICT         Contact info: isuc2008@khn.nict.go.jp