Area Chair for ACL/HLT 2011
Editorial Board Member of Research on Language and Computation
Quantifying Lexical Usage and Subjectivity in the CLAEVIPS Project at Corpus Linguistics in the South Portsmouth, UK. Nov 2011. Slides available here
Dialogue International Conference in Computational Linguistics Bekasovo Russia 25-29th May 2011. Slides available here
AbbyyOpen Seminar, Moscow 24th May 2011 Slides available here
CICLing 2011 Tokyo, Japan slides available here, Data and R code available here , Special Event Data available here
Interdiciplinary Workshop on Verbs November 2010. Pisa, Italy. Slides available here
SEW 2009 Slides available here
NODALIDA 2007 Slides available here
Collocations and idioms 2006 Slides available here
Mentoring Co-Chair for ACL 2010 see the ACL 2010 mentoring page for details.
Area Chair for NAACL/HLT 2010
President of SIGLEX
Co-organising the Cross Lingual Lexical Substitution task for Semeval-2010
Tutorials co-chair for ACL-IJCNLP 2009.
Editorial Board Member of Computational Linguistics (2006-2008)
Co-organised the English Lexical Subsititution task for Semeval with Roberto Navigli
Area Chair for ACL 2007
Committee member of SIGLEX 2004-2007
COLING/ACL-2006 workshop on Multiword Expressions:
Identifying and Exploiting Underlying Properties
with
Begona Villada Moiron, Aline Villavicencio,
Stefan Evert
and
Suzanne Stevenson
Program Co-chair for EACL 2006 with Shuly Wintner
Participation in the Royal Society 2005 MP-Scientist Pairing Scheme
Area Chair for ACL 2005
Co-organiser of ACL-SIGLEX workshop Multiword Expressions: Analysis, Acquisition and Treatment with Anna Korhonen, Francis Bond and Aline Villavicencio.
Following on from the success of the workshop, we co-edited a Special Issue on Multiword Expressions in the Journal of Computer Speech and Language.
I have participated in all three SENSEVAL evaluation exercises and served on the committee for SENSEVAL-III.
Michael Oakes (The University of Sunderland) and I compiled a web page with system descriptions for SENSEVAL II participants.