Markus Dickinson is Assistant Professor at the Department ofLinguistics, Indiana University and currently the director of theComputational Linguistics program. His research focuses onimproving linguistic annotation for natural language processingtechnology and automatically analyzing the language of secondlanguage learners. Chris Brew is a Senior Research Scientist with theEducational Testing Service in Princeton, where he is currently thescientific lead for the c-rater project on automated short answergrading. He has been active in Natural Language Processing for over20 years, first in the UK, then as Associate Professor ofLinguistics and Computer Science at The Ohio State University,where he co-directed the Speech and Language TechnologiesLaboratory, as well as the Computational Linguistics Program. Detmar Meurers is Professor of Computational Linguistics andhead of the Theoretical Computational Linguistics group at theUniversity of Tubingen. He has a longstanding commitment toteaching Computational Linguistics and Linguistics in a way thatcombines current technology and research issues with thefundamentals of the field. His research emphasizes the role oflinguistic insight and linguistic models in ComputationalLinguistics. His most recent research adds a focus on theory andapplications related to second language acquisition.