-  Georges Carayannis, Institute for Language and Speech Processing - Athens, Greece
-  Roberto de Mattei, Vice-President of Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Roma, Italy
-  Charles J. Fillmore, University of California at Berkeley - Berkeley, USA
-  Hiroya Fujisaki, Science University of Tokyo - Tokyo, Japan
-  Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology - Tokyo, Japan
-  Tanya Korelsky, Program Director, Human Language and Communication Division of Information and Intelligent Systems Directorate for Computer and Information Sciences National Science Foundation - Arlington, USA
-  Makoto Nagao, University of Kyoto - Kyoto, Japan
-  Joseph Olive, DARPA (Information Processing Technology Office) - Arlington, USA
-  Bernard Quemada, Conseil Supérieur de la Langue Française - Paris, France
-  Bernard Smith, European Commission - Information Society and Media Directorate-General, Directorate E: Content, Unit E.1: Interfaces, Luxembourg
-  Piet G.J. Van Sterkenburg, International Permanent Committee of Linguists - Leiden, The Netherlands
-  Shiwen Yu, School of Electronics Engineering & Computer Science, Peking University - Beijing, China