Selected Committee/Organiser Activities

• Action Editor for TACL (2015-to 2019)
• Senior Area Chair for ACL 2019
• Area Chair for *SEM 2016
• Reviewer for TACL (2012-14)
• Area Chair for *SEM 2013
• Area Chair for ACL/HLT 2011
• Editorial Board Member of Research on Language and Computation
• Mentoring Co-Chair for ACL 2010 see the ACL 2010 mentoring page for details.
• Area Chair for NAACL/HLT 2010
• President of SIGLEX 2007-2010
• 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.