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Chengqing Zong is a Professor at the National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (NLPR), Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA) and an adjunct professor in the School of Artificial Intelligence at University (SAIU) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS). He authored the book "Statistical Natural Language Processing" (which is in Chinese, sold more than 32K copies), and has published more than 200 papers on machine translation, natural language processing and cognitive linguistics. He served as the chairs for numerous prestigious conferences, such as ACL, COLING, AAAI and IJCAI , and has served as an associate editor for journals such as ACM TALLIP and ACTA Automatic Sinica, and as an editorial board member for journals including IEEE Intelligent Systems, Journal of Comput. Sci. & Tech. and Machine Translation. He is currently the President of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP) and a member of International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL).

Rui Xia is a Professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China. He has published more than 50 papers in high-quality journals and top-tiered conferences in the field of natural language processing and text data mining. He serves as area chair and senior program committee member for several top conferences, such as EMNLP, COLING, IJCAI, AAAI. He received the outstanding paper award of ACL 2019, and the Distinguished Young Scholar award from the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, China in 2020..





Jiajun Zhang is a Professor at NLPR, CASIA and an adjunct professor in the SAIU of UCAS. He has published more than 80 conference papers and journal articles on natural language processing and text mining, and received 5 best paper awards. He served as the area chair or on the senior program committees for several top conferences, such as ACL, EMNLP, COLING, AAAI and IJCAI.