Chloé Braud, Researcher at CNRS - IRIT (Toulouse, France), chloe.braud@irit.fr. Her work focuses on discourse parsing, with a specific interest on weakly supervised settings, and cross-lingual and cross-domain learning. She was co-chair for the workshop WiNLP 2017, App chair for EMNLP 2017 and organized the French NLP conference JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2020. 

Christian Hardmeier, Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen and Uppsala University, chrha@itu.dk. Christian Hardmeier studies the use, interpretation and translation of referring expressions such as pronouns across languages with a view, on the one hand, to improving machine translation and, on the other hand, to improving automatic discourse processing by exploiting multilingual data. He has organised several workshops at ACL/EMNLP (DiscoMT 2015, S2MT 2015, GeBNLP 2019, DiscoMT 2019, GeBNLP 2019-2021, CODI 2020/2021) and shared tasks (DiscoMT 2015, WMT 2016, DiscoMT 2017) and served as area chair at ACL 2019, 2020 and NAACL 2021.

Chuyuan Li, Post-doctoral researcher at the University of British Columbia, chuyuan.li@ubc.ca. She earned her Ph.D. at Université de Lorraine in 2023. Her research focuses on Large Language Models, discourse processing, and NLP applications (healthcare, multiagent systems, etc.).  She co-organized IWCS 2023 and CODI 2024, and served as area chair at EACL 2024, EMNLP 2024, COLING 2025, and NAACL 2025.

Junyi Jessy Li, Assistant Professor in the Linguistics department at the University of Texas at Austin, jessy@austin.utexas.edu. Her interests are in discourse and pragmatics, natural language generation, and computational social science. She received an NSF CAREER Award, an ACL Outstanding Paper Award (2022), an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award (2019), an Area Chair Favorite honor at COLING (2018), and a Best Paper Award nomination at SIGDIAL (2016). She served as a program co-chair for SIGDIAL 2022, and (senior) area chairs for a number of *ACL conferences since 2018.

Sharid Loáiciga, Associate Senior Lecturer in Computational Linguistics and Coordinator Director of CLASP, University of Gothenburg, sharid.loaiciga@gu.se. She works in discourse processing with a special interest in anaphoric phenomena. Applications in which her work has focused include machine translation, corpora annotation, and probing and interpretability of pre-trained language models. She coordinated the shared task for DiscoMT 2017 and co-organized DiscoMT 2019 and CODI 2022, 2023. 

Vincent Ng, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas, vince@utdallas.edu. He is broadly interested in discourse and pragmatics, focusing on coreference resolution, argumentation mining, and the modeling of discourse-level phenomena for automated essay scoring. He is currently an editor-in-chief for ACL Rolling Review, and an associate editor for Transactions of the ACL and Artificial Intelligence. He has been a co-chair of the CORBON/CRAC workshop series since its inception. 

Michal Novák, Researcher at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University, Prague, mnovak@ufal.mff.cuni.cz. Michal is broadly interested in discourse, focusing on annotation and resolution of anaphora and coreference, automated essay scoring, and machine translation. He has co-organized the CRAC Shared Task on Multilingual Coreference Resolution since 2022.

Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Associate Professor at the Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences. maciej.ogrodniczuk@gmail.com. Interested in annotation and resolution of reference and discourse relations. Co-Chair of PolEval (since 2017), CORBON 2016–2017 and CRAC 2018–2024. 

Massimo Poesio, Full Professor in Computational Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London and Full Professor of Natural Language Understanding at the University of Utrecht.  Massimo is broadly interested in semantics, discourse, anaphora resolution, creation of annotated corpora both through additional means and through Games-With-A-Purpose, neural evidence for semantic interpretation, semantics of dialogues, and distributional semantics. He is the Chair of the standing committee for the SEMDIAL series of workshops (2000–2010), program chair for the 2000 and 2010 editions, program co-chair of ACL 2013, workshop co-chair for ACL 2012, co-chair of LAW 2010, and the ESSLLI Workshops on Ambiguity and Anaphora (2006), Deixis and Multimodality (1999), Underspecification (1995). In addition, he co-chaired four editions of the CRAC workshop (CRAC 2018, CRAC 2021–2024). 

Sameer Pradhan, Assistant Research Director at the Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on creating corpora as well as machine learning algorithms, models and tools to convert unstructured information (text and speech) into searchable meaning representations. He is actively involved in the NLP community and has served on the guest editorial board of Computational Linguistics Journal. He serves on program committees of all major NLP conferences such as ACL, HLT/NAACL, COLING, CoNLL, EMNLP, AAAI. He occasionally serves as area chair for in the areas of semantics and language resources and evaluation.

Michael Strube, NLP Group Leader at Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (Heidelberg, Germany), michael.strube@h-its.org. Michael Strube is interested in questions related to processing, understanding and generating discourse. He works on coreference resolution with a particular focus on appropriate representations for the task. He develops models of local coherence based on graphs and/or neural networks with applications in text generation, assessing readability, essay scoring and automatic summarization. He was PC co-chair for ACL-IJCNLP 2015, PC and general co-chair for SIGdial 2004 and 2013, PC co-chair for the two ACL workshops on ethics in NLP in 2017 and 2018, area and senior chair for numerous *ACL conferences, tutorial co-chair for ACL 2012, IJCNLP 2017, NAACL 2019, workshop co-chair for ACL 2021, and associate editor for the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 2019-2021. He was named ACL Fellow in 2019.

Amir Zeldes, Associate Professor of Computational Linguistics at Georgetown University (Washington, DC), Amir.Zeldes@georgetown.edu. Amir specializes in work on and with corpora, especially in areas of discourse including discourse relations and coreference. He runs the Georgetown University Corpus Linguistics lab, Corpling@GU, and is also the author of the enhanced Rhetorical Structure Theory (eRST) formalism. He has co-organized the Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking (DISRPT) shared task since 2019 and is currently President of ACL SIGANN.