Professional Activities and Organizations
Professional affiliations:
·
Association
for Computational Linguistics (ACL),
member since 1987.
·
Association
for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA),
member since 1991.
·
Association
for Digital Government in North America (DGSNA),
member since 2006.
·
American
Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI),
member since 1984.
·
International
Pragmatics Association (IPrA), member 1986–2001.
·
Cognitive
Science Society (CogSci), member 1987–2003.
·
International
Systemic Functional Linguistics Association (ISFLA),
member 1987–1994.
·
Association
for Computing Machinery (ACM), member
1991–1993.
Service in professional organizations:
·
President (2008–09), President-Elect (2006–08), and Past
President (2010–11), Digital Government Society of North America (DGSNA)
·
President
(2001–03), President-Elect (1999–01), and Treasurer (2003–09), International
Association of Machine Translation (IAMT);
member of Council (1996–99).
·
Past
President (2002), President (2001), Vice President (2000), Association of Computational Linguistics
(ACL); member of Executive Committee,
1994–1997.
·
President
(1996–2000), Vice President (1994–96), and Wise Counselor (2002–05), Association of
Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA).
·
Member
of Executive Committee (2000), North American Chapter of the Association of
Computational Linguistics (NAACL). One of three
people tasked with establishing this chapter for the ACL.
·
Chair
of committee (2005–06) tasked with creating the constitutions to form the North American
Digital Government Society and International Digital Electronic Government
Society (IDEGS).
·
Chair
of committee (2002–03) tasked with establishing HLT-NAACL joint conference series, and
first coverall conference chair.
Appointed by joint agreement of US funding agencies (DARPA, NSF, ARDA)
and ACL.
·
Member
of Executive Committee, SIGMEDIA, 1992–93.
Relationships with small companies:
·
Rhetoritech Persuasive Technologies 2009–. Personalized production of documents. Co-founder and Chief Scientist.
·
Textifter.
2009–. Chair, Board of
Directors.
·
WiseWindow,
2007–. Measures relevant consumer
insights about corporation products.
Technical Advisor.
·
Boorah,
2006–09. Local search
company that extracts sentiment from user reviews. Technical Advisor.
·
Applied Semantics (acquired by
Google in 2003), 2001–2003. Web
and local search company. On Board
of Advisors.
·
MaximOne, 2001–2003.
Semantics-based text search and summarization. Technical Advisor.
·
TransClick,
2000–2004. Machine translation and
translator support. Technical
Advisor.
·
Infosqueeze,
2000–2005. Text
summarization. Co-founder.
·
Inkpot,
1999–2002. Personalized production
of documents. Co-founder.
Journal and book series editorial boards:
·
Book
series Editor-in-Chief. Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing. Springer.
2010–.
·
Book
series editorial board: Natural Language Processing (click here),
John Benjamins Publishers, 1999–.
·
Journal
editorial board: Journal of Information Technology &
Politics (JITP), 2006–.
·
Journal
editorial board:
Language Resources and Evaluation (LRE),
2005–2010.
·
Journal
editorial board: Machine Translation, (click here)
1999–.
·
Journal editorial
board:
Journal of China Universities of Posts and Telecommunications (CHUPT), 2008–.
·
Journal
editorial board: ACM Transactions on Asian Language
Information Processing (TALIP), 2003–2007.
·
Journal
editorial board: Journal of the Society of Natural
Language Processing of Japan, 1997–99.
·
Journal
editorial board:
Computational Linguistics (click
here), 1991–93.
·
Journal editorial
board (Technical
Area on the Semantics of Web Information): Electronic Transactions of Artificial Intelligence (ETAI), 2000–01.
·
Co-editor,
Special Issue on Digital Government. International Journal of E-Government Research
(click here). 2005.
·
Co-editor,
Special Issue on Text Summarization. Computational Linguistics. 2002.
·
Co-editor.
Special Issue on Multi-lingual Information Management. Computers and the Humanities 35(4), November
2001.
·
Guest
co-editor, special issue of Machine Translation. October 1998.
Review Boards and other standing committees:
·
Scientific
Advisory Board: Fondazione
Bruno Kessler – Center for Information Technology – IRST. Trento,
Italy. 2009–.
·
Scientific
Advisory Board: Saarland Excellence
Cluster on Multimodal Computing and Interaction. Saarbrücken,
Germany. 2008–13.
·
International Review Board, Tilburg
University Center for Cognition and Communication. Tilburg, Netherlands. 2012.
·
International
Review Board: Continuous
Access To Cultural Heritage program (CATCH). Dutch Science Foundation
(NWO), 2004–.
·
Advisory
Committee: NIST Text Analysis Conference (TAC) for
Advancement and Evaluation of NLP (including DUC and RTE). 2007–.
·
Chair,
Panel of Judges: Elsevier Grand
Challenge: Knowledge Enhancement
in the Life Sciences. 2008–09.
·
International
Review Board: Interactieve Multimodale Informatie Extractie (IMIX).
Dutch Science Foundation (NWO), 2005–08.
·
International
Review Board: Multi-lingual
Intelligence Science and Technology program (W-MIST). University of Posts and
Telecommunication. Beijing, China,
2004–08.
·
Member
of US Expert Board: ISO TC37 SC4
(ISO committee developing standards for language resource management), 2003–.
·
Member
of Workshop Program Committee: ARDA’s Northeastern Region Research Center (NRRC),
2001–2002.
·
Member: DARPA Written Language Coordinating
Committee, 1992–94.
·
Member: IFIP Committee on Natural Language,
1990–94.
Ad hoc study panels:
·
Participant in workshop on Data-Centric Workflows. Commissioned by NSF. Washington, DC.
May 2009.
·
Participant, MINDS study group
developing report on future directions for research in Machine Translation, Information
Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Data resources, and Speech. Funded by ARDA/DTO. Marina del Rey, CA.
January 2007.
·
Participant in workshop to outline current state
and research problems in Information Integration (II), funded by several
government agencies (AFRL, AHRQ, EPA, NARA, NSF, ONR, with support from the
NCO/NITRD). Philadelphia, PA.
October 2006.
·
Session
chair (invited), special joint meeting of funders and national research
community representatives called Workshop on Future of Semantic Text Annotation
Research. College Park, MD. April 2005.
·
Chair
of joint NSF-EU researcher meeting to plan collaboration program between US and EU in Digital Government / eGovernment research.
Delft, The Netherlands. November 2004.
·
Participant
and session chair in NSF meeting to outline Digital Government collaboration
program between US and Organization of American States (OAS). Washington, DC. November 2004.
·
Participant
and member of editorial reporting team, Workshop on Exploring International Collaborations
for Research on eGovernment and Digital Government. Commissioned by the EU and National
Science Foundation, at dg.o 2004 conference, Seattle,
WA. May 2004.
·
Member, Expert Meeting on the Building of an International Research Institute
on e-Science Studies (IRISS).
Convened by the Royal Dutch Academy of Science (KNAW). Amsterdam, The
Netherlands. May 2003.
·
Member
and session leader, Workshop on Developing a Basic Research Program on e-Rulemaking, for
Digital Government. Commissioned by
National Science Foundation. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. January 2003.
·
Member
and session leader, Workshop on Developing a Basic Research Program on Policy and
Governance, for Digital Government.
Commissioned by National Science Foundation. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge,
MA. May 2002.
·
Session
co-leader, Workshop
on Responding to the Unexpected.
Commissioned by National Science Foundation. New York, NY. February 2002.
·
Co-editor
of report on Multilingual
Information Management (MLIM), commissioned by the National Science
Foundation (Washington, DC). Co-chair of information collection workshops held
in Granada, Spain (May 1998) and Montreal, Canada (August 1998). To view the
report, click here.
·
Member
of working group on Multilingual Information Retrieval, study panel for NSF and DARPA.
Meetings held at Columbia University, New York, and ETH, Zürich, in November
1997 and March 1998. Report published in 1998.
·
Member
of NSF Workshop on R&D Opportunities in Federal Information Services, section on
Information Integration. Study published in 1997.
·
Member
of AAAI-NSF Workshop on National Information Infrastructure. Workshop held at AAAI-94,
Seattle, WA, August 1994.
·
Contributor
to Survey of
the State of the Art in Human Language Technology. Responsible for overview
section on Natural Language Generation. Report commissioned jointly by the
National Science Foundation (Washington, DC) and the European Commission's LRE
directorate (Brussels, Belgium) in January 1994. Published in 1996; click here.
·
Member
of stugy group on Natural Language Research in the U.S.,
chaired by Prof. Victor Zue, MIT. Study commissioned
by ISAT and presented in August 1991.
·
Member
of study group on Multimedia Communication Research in the U.S., chaired by Dr.
William Swartout, USC Information Sciences Institute.
Study commissioned by ISAT and presented in August 1990.
Selected conference and large event organizing committees:
·
Member
of Organizing Committee, Dagstuhl Workshop on the The
Future of Research Communication, August 2011.
·
Member
of Organizing Committee, Beyond the PDF,
January 2011.
·
Program
Committee Honorary Chair, IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and
Knowledge Engineering (IEEE
NLP-KE 10). Beijing,
China. 2010.
·
Program
Committee Honorary Chair, IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and
Knowledge Engineering (IEEE NLP-KE 08). Beijing, China. 2008.
·
Convenor and liaison to DGSNA Board. Ninth Conference on Digital Government (dg.o 2008).
Montreal, Canada. May 2008.
·
Program
Committee Honorary Chair, IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and
Knowledge Engineering (IEEE NLP-KE 07). Beijing, China. 2007.
·
Member
of Senior Program Committee (co-responsible for Natural Language track), AAAI conference,
July 2007.
·
Member
of Advisory Committee, 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing
(ICON 2007). IIIT Hyderabad, India. January 2007.
·
Member
of Scientific Committee, Fifth Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006). Genoa, Italy. May 2006.
·
Member
of Advisory Board, International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-05).
Hyderabad, India. December 2005.
·
Member
of Program Committee, Joint Conference of Human Language Technologies and Empirical Methods
in NLP (HLT-EMNLP 2005). Vancouver, Canada. October 2005.
·
Member
of Program Committee, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI
2005). Edinburgh, Scotland.
August 2005.
·
Conference
Co-Chair (With Sharon Dawes). Fifth
Conference on Digital Government (dg.o 2004).
Seattle, WA, May 2004.
·
Member
of Program Committee, Joint Conference of Human Language Technologies and Empirical Methods
in NLP (HLT-EMNLP 2005).
Vancouver, Canada. October 2005.
·
Member
of Program Committee, Third International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2005). Banff, Canada. October 2005.
·
Member
of Program Committee, Machine Translation Summit X. Phuket,
Thailand. September 2005.
·
Member
of Program Committee, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2005). Edinburgh, Scotland. August 2005.
·
Member
of Program Committee (in two areas: Summarization/QA and Language Resources), International
Conference on Computational Linguistics (ACL 2005). Ann Arbor, MI. June 2005.
·
Member
of Program Committee, Sixth National Conference on Digital Government (dg.o 2005).
Atlanta, GA. May 2005.
·
Conference
Chair, Machine
Translation Summit IX (MT-Summit),
New Orleans. September 2003.Conference Chair, Human Language Technology Conference of the
North American Association of the ACL (HLT-NAACL03),
Edmonton, Canada. May 2003.
·
Program
Chair, Second
National Conference on Digital Government (dg.o2002), Los Angeles. May 2002.
·
Program
Chair, First
National Conference on Digital Government (dg.o2001),
Los Angeles. May 2001.
·
Member
of Program Committee, International Joint Conference of Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2001),
Seattle. August 2001.
·
Member,
Executive Program Committee, DARPA Human Language Technology (HLT) Conference, San Diego. March
2001.
·
Member
of International Advisory Board, Machine Translation Summit VII, Singapore.
September 1999.
·
General
conference chair, Third Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the
Americas (AMTA). Philadelphia, PA, October 1998.
·
Program
chair, Ninth
International Workshop on Natural Language Generation (INLGW).
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada, July 1998.
·
Program
co-chair, AAAI
Spring Symposium on Text Summarization. Stanford University, Palo Alto.
March 1998.
·
Program
chair, Second
Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas
(AMTA). Montreal, Quebec, October 1996.
·
Program
co-chair, First
Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas
(AMTA). (With Dr. Muriel Vasconcellos, AMTA, and Dr.
Joseph Pentheroudakis, MicroSoft.) Columbia, MD,
October 1994.
·
Event
co-chair, AAAI-94
Machine Translation Showcase. At Annual Conference of the American
Association of Artificial Intelligence. (With Prof. Jaime Carbonell
and Prof. Bonnie Dorr.) Seattle, WA, August 1994.
·
Workshop
co-chair, International
Workshop on Burning Issues in Discourse (funded by NATO). Maratea, Italy. April 1993.
Selected invited presentations:
(For fuller list of invited presentations see here.)
·
Keynote speaker, Workshop on Sentiment Analysis where AI meets
Psychology at the IJCNLP conference.
Chiang Mai, Thailand.
November 2011.
·
Keynote speaker, 8th Brazilian
Symposium on Information and Human Language Technology (STIL). Cuiabá,
Brazil. October 2011.
·
Keynote speaker: International
Conference on Dialogue.
Moscow, Russia. May 2011.
·
Keynote speaker:
International
Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2011). Oxford, UK. January 2011.
·
Keynote speaker: Tenth conference Konferenz
zur Verarbeitung Natürliche Sprache (KONVENS). Saarbrücken,
Germany. September 2010.
·
Keynote speaker, Workshop on Negation and
Speculation in Natural Language Processing. Before the conference of the
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Stockholm, Sweden. July 2010.
·
Keynote speaker: Semantic Authoring Annotation
and Knowledge Management (SAAKM) at the conference on Knowledge Capture
(K-CAP). Redondo Beach, CA.
September 2009.
·
Invited speaker, 14th International Conference on Applications of
Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB-09). Saarbrücken,
Germany. June 2009.
·
Panelist, 50th anniversary of the French Computational
Linguistics Association (ATALA). Paris, France. June 2009.
·
Invited
speaker, 3rd Symposium on Innovations in Machine
Translation Technologies (IMTT-2009).
Tokyo, Japan. March 2009.
·
Invited in
Distinguished Speaker series, Department of Computer Science, University of
Pittsburgh, PA. September 2008.
·
Keynote speaker, Second IEEE International Conference on
Semantic Computing (ICSC). Santa Clara, CA. August 2008.
·
Invited speaker and panel leader, Global E-Gov
Symposium at Hawai'i International Conference on
System Sciences (HICSS). Hawaii.
January 2008.
·
Keynote speaker, Seventh International Symposium on
Natural Language Processing (SNLP). Pattaya,
Thailand. December 2007.
·
Keynote
speaker, IEEE NLP-KE conference.
Beijing, China. August 2007.
·
Keynote
speaker, SEMEVAL workshop at
the conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
Prague, Czech Republic. July 2007.
·
Invited
speaker, Conference on eGovernment,
organized by the State Information Center of the Chinese Government. Beijing,
China. April 2007.
·
Keynote
speaker, Symposium on Innovations
in Machine Translation Technologies. Tokyo, Japan. March 2007.
·
Invited
speaker, Advanced NLP
and Text Mining Forum. Tokyo, Japan. March 2007.
·
Invited
speaker, International Conference on
Linguistics in Korea. Seoul, Korea. January 2007.
·
Keynote
speaker, 9th International Conference on
Text, Speech, and Dialogue (TSD-06). Brno, Czech Republic. September 2006.
·
Keynote
speaker, 3rd
European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC). Budva, Montenegro. June 2006.
·
Keynote
speaker, 5th Language Resources
and Evaluation conference (LREC 2006). Genoa, Italy.
May 2006.
·
Keynote
speaker, 7th
International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational
Linguistics (CICLing). Mexico City, Mexico. February 2006.
·
Keynote
speaker, Annual Meeting of Computational
Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN). Amsterdam, The Netherlands. December 2005.
·
Invited
speaker, Symposium of the National Institute of
Information and Communications Technology (NICT). Tokyo, Japan. November
2005.
·
Keynote
speaker, IEEE International Conference on
Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering (NLP-KE). Wuhan, China. October 2005.
·
Keynote
speaker, Second Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS). Jeju
Island, Korea. October 2005.
·
Keynote
speaker, Pacific-Asia Conference on
Computational Linguistics (PACLING). Tokyo, Japan. August 2005.
·
Keynote
speaker, 13th International
Conference on Conceptual Structures: Common Semantics for Sharing Knowledge
(ICCS). Kassel, Germany. July 2005.
·
Keynote
speaker, Conference on
Theories of Natural Language Processing (TALN). Dourdan,
France. June 2005.
·
Keynote
speaker, Asian Symposium on Natural
Language Processing to Overcome Language Barriers, at International
Joint Conference of Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP). Hainan Island, China. March 2004.
·
Invited
talk (became keynote speaker when keynoter cancelled), Toward the Automated
Construction of Semantic Resources.
International
Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering (NLP-KE). Beijing, China. October 2003.
·
Keynote
speaker, JEITA meeting, Tokyo, Japan. October 2002.
·
Keynote
address, seventh Pacific-Rim International Conference
on AI (PRICAI). Tokyo, August 2002.
·
Keynote
address, SIGIR Conference. New Orleans, LA,
September 2001.
·
Keynote
address, Conference on Recent Advances in NLP (RANLP).
Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria,
September 2001.
·
Invited
speaker, International Machine Translation Summit VI,
San Diego, CA. October 1997.
·
Keynote
address, Workshop on Terminology Issues in Data and
Knowledge Sharing, National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST), Gaithersburg, MD. July 1997.
·
Keynote
address, Workshop on Ontologies at Conference
of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) and European Association
(EACL). Madrid, Spain. July 1997.
·
Plenary
speaker, 3rd International Workshop on Human Interface
Technology (IWHIT'97), University of Aizu, Aizu, Japan. March 1997.
·
Invited
speaker, JEIDA Study Group. JEIDA meeting,
Tokyo, Japan. November 1996.
·
Invited
speaker, 2nd Conference of the Association for Machine
Translation in the Americas (AMTA), Montreal, Canada. October 1996.
·
Invited
international participant Workshop/Meetings on Natural
Language Generation. Sponsored by the German and Chinese Governments.
Shanghai and Beijing, China. May 1996.
·
Keynote
speaker, Workshop on Discourse Markers, Egmond-aan-Zee, The Netherlands.
January 1995.
·
Keynote
speaker, 3rd European Generation Workshop (ENLGW),
Judenstein, Austria. March 1991.
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