Dawei Song's Professional Activities

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Associate Editor, International Journal of Computer Processing Of Languages (IJCPOL)
Secretary, Information Retrieval Specialists Group of British Computer Society (BCS-IRSG)
General Chair, The 5th International Symposium on Quantum Interaction (QI'2011, 27-29 June 2011, Aberdeen, UK)
Sponsorship Chair, The 33^rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR'2010)
Steering Committee Member, Asia Information Retrieval Societies (AIRS) conference series
Programme Committee Co-chair, The 5th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS'2009, 21-23 October 2009, Sapporo, Japan)
Programme Committee Co-chair, The 2nd International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR'2009, Cambridge, UK, 10-12 Sep 2009)
Co-chair, BCS-IRSG Workshop on Corpus Profiling for Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing (18 Oct 2008, London)
Co-chair, Workshop on Future Directions in Multimedia Knowledge Management (Feb 2008, Milton Keynes, UK)
Co-chair, Workshop on Multimedia Knowledge Management: Industry Meets Academia (Jan 2007, Milton Keynes, UK)
Program Committee Member:

SIGIR'2003 (The 26th ACM SIGIR Conference)
ADCS'2003 (The 8thAustralasian Document Computing Symposium)
AIRS'2004 (The 1st Asian Information Retrieval Symposium)
APWeb'2005 (Asia-Pacific Web Conference)
ECIR'2005 (27th European Conference on Information Retrieval)
ADMA'2005 (Advanced Data Mining and Applications)
ATOIP'2005 (Advanced Technologies for Oriental Information Processing)
APWEB'2006 (Asia-Pacific Web Conference)
ECIR'2006 (European Conference on Information Retrieval)
AMT'2006 (Active Media Technologies)
WAIM'2006 (Web Age Information Management)
AIRS'2006 (Asian Information Retrieval Conference)
ICCPOL'2006 (Computer Processing of Oriental Languages)
SIGIR'2006 (The 29^th ACM SIGIR Annual Conference)
NAACL-HLT'2007 (Human Language Technologies: The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics)
SIGIR'2007 (The 30^th ACM SIGIR Annual Conference)
SIGIR'2008 (The 31^st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference)
CIKM'2008 (ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management)
ECIR'2008 (The 30^th Conference on Information Retrieval)
DIR'2008 (The Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval workshop)
ECIR'2009 (The 31^st European Conference on Information Retrieval)
SIGIR'2009 (The 32^nd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference)
CIKM'2009 (The18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management)
ECIR'2010 (The 32^nd European Conference on Information Retrieval)
SIGIR'2010 (The 33rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference)
CIKM'2010 (The19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management)
SIGIR'2011 (The 34th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference)
ECIR'2011 (The 33rd European Conference on Information Retrieval)

Reviewer for a number of international journals and conferences.
Invited talks given to many prestigious research organizations.
Visiting researcher to Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Queensland University of Technology, University of Queensland, National ICT Centre of Australia, Tianjin University, Tsinghua University, etc.
Guest Editor, ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing - Special issue on Reasoning in Natural Language Information Processing