SIGDAT, the Association for Computational Linguistics' special interest group on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP, sponsored the EMNLP 2003 conference. The conference was held on July 11-12, 2003 in Sapporo, Japan, immediately following the 41st meeting of the ACL (ACL 2003).
| Steve Abney | Dekang Lin |
| Jason Baldridge | Diane Litman |
| Srinivas Bangalore | Robert Malouf |
| Regina Barzilay | Daniel Marcu |
| Dan Bikel | Katja Markert |
| Thorsten Brants | Lluis Marquez |
| Chris Brew | Dan Melamed |
| Eric Brill | Helen Meng |
| Ted Briscoe | Paola Merlo |
| Claire Cardie | Tom Morton |
| John Carroll | Masaaki Nagata |
| Eugene Charniak | Hwee Tou Ng |
| Stanley Chen | Grace Ngai |
| David Chiang | Franz-Josef Och |
| Ken Church | Miles Osborne |
| Stephen Clark | Martha Palmer |
| Jason Eisner | David Pierce |
| Radu Florian | Dragomir Radev |
| Rob Gaizauskas | Owen Rambow |
| Louise Guthrie | Lance Ramshaw |
| Jan Hajic | Jason Rennie |
| Sanda Harabagiu | Philip Resnik |
| Marti Hearst | Jeff Reynar |
| James Henderson | Ellen Riloff |
| John Henderson | Eric Ringger |
| Mark Hepple | Brian Roark |
| Julia Hockenmeier | Erik Tjong Kim Sang |
| Rebecca Hwa | Murat Saraclar |
| Hitoshi Iida | Anoop Sarkar |
| Mark Johnson | Richard Sproat |
| Frank Keller | Suzanne Stevenson |
| Adam Kilgarriff | Michael Strube |
| Margaret King | Ben Taskar |
| Kevin Knight | Christoph Tillmann |
| Maria Lapata | Paola Velardi |
| Gina-Anne Levow | David Weir |
| Hang Li | Ralph Weischedel |
| Liz Liddy | Janyce Wiebe |