PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

 

·         Editorial Board, International Journal of Computer Processing Of Languages (IJCPOL)

·         Member of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) , ACS (Australian Computer Society), BCS (British Computer Society)

·         Secretary, Information Retrieval Specialist Group of BCS (BCS-IRSG)

·         Sponsorship Chair, The 33rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR’2010)

·         Steering Committee Member and Programme Committee Co-chair of the 2009 Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS’2009)

·         Programme Committee Co-chair of the Second International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR’2009)

·         Co-organizer of BCS-IRSG Workshop on Corpus Profiling for Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing (18th Oct 2008, London)

·         Co-organizer of Workshop on Future Directions in Multimedia Knowledge Management (Feb 2008, Milton Keynes, UK)

·         Co-organizer of Workshop “Multimedia Knowledge Management: Industry Meets Academia” (Jan 2007, Milton Keynes, UK)

·         Program Committee Member of

o        ACM SIGIR'2003  (The 26th ACM SIGIR Annual Conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval)

o        ADCS'2003 (The Eighth Australasian Document Computing Symposium)

o        AIRS'2004 (The 1st Asian Information Retrieval Symposium)

o        APWeb'2005 (Asia-Pacific Web Conference)

o        ECIR'2005 (27th European Conference on Information Retrieval)

o        ADMA'2005 (Advanced Data Mining and Applications)

o        ATOIP'2005 (Advanced Technologies for Oriental Information Processing)

o        APWEB’2006 (Asia-Pacific Web Conference)

o        ECIR’2006 (European Conference on Information Retrieval)

o        AMT’2006 (Active Media Technologies)

o        WAIM’2006 (Web Age Information Management)

o        AIRS’2006 (Asian Information Retrieval Conference)

o        ICCPOL’2006 (Computer Processing of Oriental Languages)

o        SIGIR’2006 (The 29th ACM SIGIR Annual Conference)

o        NAACL-HLT’2007 (Human Language Technologies: The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics)

o        SIGIR’2007 (The 30th ACM SIGIR Annual Conference)

o        SIGIR’2008 (The 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference)

o        CIKM’2008 (ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management)

o        ECIR’2008 (The 30th Conference on Information Retrieval)

o        DIR’2008 (The Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval workshop)

o        ECIR’2009 (The 31st European Conference on Information Retrieval)

o        SIGIR’2009 (The 32nd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference)

o        CIKM’2009 (ACM 18th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management)

o        ECIR’2010 (The 32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval)

·         Reviewer for a number of international journals and conferences, including ACM TOIS, JASIST, IEEE TKDE, SIGIR, HLT, ADCS, ECIR, etc.

·         Invited talks given to various prestigious research organizations, e.g., University of Glasgow, Queen Mary University of London, University of Essex, Microsoft Research Asia, etc.

·         Visiting researchers to the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Queensland University of Technology, the University of Queensland, National ICT Centre of Australia.

·         Guest Editor, ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing - Special issue on Reasoning in Natural Language Information Processing


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