ICSC 2014 Technical Program Committee Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany Agnese Augello, ICAR-CNR Ramazan Aygun, University of Alabama, Huntsville, USA Kathy Baker, US Government, USA Lamberto Ballan, University of Florence, Italy Roberto Basili, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Stephen Beale, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Ivan Bedini, Bell Labs Marco Bertini, Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Italy Michael Bloodgood, University of Maryland, USA David Bracewell, Language Computer Corporation Thorsten Brants, Google Inc., USA Volha Bryl, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Nicoletta Calzolari, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR, Italy Kasturi Chatterjee, TechnoratiMedia Inc., USA Chao Chen, Capital One Bank, USA Matthew Cooper, FXPAL, USA Jason Corso, SUNY at Buffalo, USA Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy Claudia D’Amato, University of Bari, Italy Ernesto D’Avanzo, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy Thierry Declerck, DFKI GmbH, Germany Zhongli Ding, Google Inc., USA Massimo Esposito, ICAR-CNR, Italy Nick Evans, EURECOM, France Alex Chengyu Fang, The City University of Hong Kong, China Nicola Fanizzi, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Bari, Italy David Farwell, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Luigi Gallo, ICAR-CNR, Italy Marsal Gavalda, Expect Labs, USA Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez, Intelligent Software Components (iSOCO) S.A. Thomas Gottron, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany William I. Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA Simon Handley, Expect Labs, USA Sanda Harabagiu, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Choochart Haruechaiyasak, National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, Thailand Takako Hashimoto, Chiba University of Commerce, Japan Johannes Heinecke, France Telecom Stacie Hibino, Eastman Kodak Company, USA xiv Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California, USA Wolfgang Hürst, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Beth Huffer, Lingua Logica, USA Chengjia Huo, University of California, Irvine, USA Eero Hyvönen, Aalto University and University of Helsinki, Finland Ichiro Ide, Nagoya University, Japan Hasan Jamil, Wayne State University, USA Artem Katasonov, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland Doo Soon Kim, University of Texas at Austin, USA Tracy Holloway King, Microsoft, USA Ruediger Klein, Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany Lars Knipping, Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany Stanley Kok, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Informatics and Telemantics Institute, Greece Arnd Christian König, Microsoft Research, USA Shuichi Kurabayashi, Keio University SFC, Japan Marco La Cascia, University of Palermo, Italy Freddy Lecue, University of Manchester, UK Ying Li, IBM T.J. Watson, USA Alexander Loui, Eastman Kodak Company, USA Hongli Luo, Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA Umberto Maniscalco, CNR, Italy Elio Masciari, ICAR-CNR, Italy David McDonald, Smart Information Flow Technologies (SIFT), USA Dennis McLeod, University of Southern California, USA Marjorie McShane, University of Maryland Baltimore (UMBC), USA Farid Meziane, University of Salford, UK Adrian Mocan, SAP AG, Germany Fionn Murtagh, Royal Holloway University of London, UK Shinichi Nagano, Toshiba Corporation, Japan Costanza Navarretta, Center for Sprogteknologi, Denmark Matthias Nickles, Technical University of Munich Carlos Pedrinaci, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK Nick Pendar, Uptake Networks, USA Roberto Pirrone, DINFO - Universita' di Palermo, Italy Luigi Pontieri, ICAR-CNR, Italy Alessandro Provetti, University of Messina, Italy Matthew Purver, Queen Mary University of London, UK Riccardo Rizzo, ICAR-CNR, Italy Marco Rospocher, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Sebastian Rudolph, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Irene Russo, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale - CNR Pisa, Italy Harald Sack, HPI, Germany xv William Schuler, The Ohio State University, USA Dylan Seychell, University of Malta Alkis Simitsis, HP Labs Ravi Sinha, University of North Texas, USA Chad Takahashi, Otto Inc., USA Matthias Thimm, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany Marc Tomlinson, Language Computer Corporation Thanh Tran, San Jose State University, USA Filippo Vella, ICAR-CNR, Italy Marc Verhagen, Brandeis University, USA René Witte, Concordia University, Canada Pia-Ramona Wojtinnek, University of Oxford, UK Zhuli Xie, Yahoo! Labs, USA Jianhua Yan, PayPal, an eBay Company, USA Ziming Zhuang, Yahoo! Labs, USA Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore, Singapore External Reviewers Andrea Aprovitola Giuseppe Caggianese Ronald Denaux Yang Feng Francesco Folino Natalja Friesen Massimo Guarascio Magnus Knuth Lei Liu Raghava Mutharaju Pietro Neroni Bahar Sateli Mohsen Taheriyan Chenliang Xu Kaijian Xu Junjie Zhai Qiusha Zhu xvi