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Dr. NG Hwee Tou is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore, Program Co-chair (Computer Science Program) of the Singapore-MIT Alliance, and a Senior Faculty Member at the NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering. He received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin, USA in 1992. His research focuses on natural language processing and information retrieval. He has published papers in premier journals and conferences including Computational Linguistics, ACL, EMNLP, SIGIR, AAAI, and IJCAI. He is the Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), and an editorial board member of Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) and Natural Language Engineering. He has also served as an editorial board member of Computational Linguistics journal (2004 - 2006). He is an elected member of the ACL executive committee (2008 - 2010) and a steering committee member and former secretary of ACL SIGNLL. He was program co-chair of EMNLP-2008, ACL-2005, and CoNLL-2004 conferences, and has served on the program committees of many past conferences including ACL, EMNLP, SIGIR, AAAI, and IJCAI. More info is available at his homepage: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~nght/