Professional activities

• Proposal reviewer
  • National Science Foundation, 2003 & 2004
  • Science Foundation Ireland (National Foundation for Excellence in Scientific Research), 2002

• Organizer
  • Conferences
    • AAAI-2006 Co-Chair for Member Abstracts and Posters
    • KDD-2006 Co-Chair for Exhibits
  • Workshops
    • AAAI-2004 workshop on "Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining" (chair)
    • IJCAI-2001 workshop on "Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining"
    • AAAI-99 workshop on "Machine Learning for Information Extraction"

• Program Committee
  • International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2003-6)
  • NIPS 2006-7
  • ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2005-6)
  • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2003-7)
  • WWW 2006 Data Mining
  • National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2004-06)
  • Discovery Science (2005-6)
  • International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI-2001)
  • Genetic Programming (GP-98)

• Journal Reviewer
  • Machine Learning Journal
  • Journal of Machine Learning Research
  • Journal of Artificial Intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computational Linguist
  • ACM Computing Surveys
  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
  • ACM Transactions on Information Systems
  • ACM Transactions on Internet Technology
  • Information Systems Journal
  • Data & Knowledge Engineering Journal
  • WWW Journal
  • Tourism Management

• Conference Reviewer
  • ACM SIGMOD 2004
  • Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2004)
  • International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2002-3)
  • International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-2003)

• Other
  • Panelist at the AAAI-2004 Doctoral Consortium
  • Reviewer for "Encyclopedia of Data Mining" (ed. John Wang)

• Workshop PC
  • ECML/PKDD 2006 Workshop on "Web Mining"
  • 2006 AAAI Fall Symposium on "Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition"
  • COLING/ACL-2006 Workshop on "Information extraction beyond the document"
  • ICDM-2005 Workshop on "Knowledge Acquisition from Distributed, Autonomous, Semantically Heterogeneous Data and Knowledge Sources"
  • ICML-2005 Workshop on "Learning with Multiple Views"
  • KDD 2005 & 2006 Workshop on "Utility-Based Data Mining"
  • ECML/PKDD 2005 Workshop on "Modelling and Mining Internet Usage"
  • ECML/PKDD 2005 Workshop on "European Web Mining Forum (EWMF 2005)"
  • AAAI-2005 Workshop on "Link Analysis"
  • KDD-2004 Workshop on "Link Analysis & Group Detection" (LinkKDD-04)
  • ICML-2003 1st Workshop on "The Continuum from Labeled to Unlabeled Data"
  • ECML-2003 Workshop on "Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining"
  • IJCAI-2003 Workshop on "The Continuum from Labeled to Unlabeled Data in Machine Learning and Data Mining"
  • FLAIRS-2003 Special Track on "AI andthe Web"
  • IJCAI-2001 Workshop on "Text Learning: Beyond Supervision"
  • ECML-2000 Workshop on "Machine Learning For Information Extraction", 2000

• Librarian of the RISE repository of information extraction tasks ( http://www.isi.edu/info-agents/RISE )