PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES
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Editorial Board, International
Journal of Computer Processing Of Languages (IJCPOL)
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Member of ACM (Association for
Computing Machinery) , ACS (Australian Computer Society), BCS (British Computer
Society)
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Secretary, Information Retrieval
Specialist Group of BCS (BCS-IRSG)
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Sponsorship Chair, The 33rd Annual
ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR’2010)
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Steering Committee Member and
Programme Committee Co-chair of the 2009
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Programme Committee Co-chair of the Second International
Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR’2009)
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Co-organizer of BCS-IRSG Workshop on Corpus Profiling for
Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing (18th Oct
2008,
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Co-organizer of Workshop on Future
Directions in Multimedia Knowledge Management (Feb 2008,
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Co-organizer of Workshop
“Multimedia Knowledge Management: Industry Meets Academia” (Jan
2007,
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Program Committee Member of
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ACM SIGIR'2003 (The 26th
ACM SIGIR Annual Conference on Research and development in Information
Retrieval)
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ADCS'2003 (The Eighth Australasian
Document Computing Symposium)
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AIRS'2004 (The 1st Asian
Information Retrieval Symposium)
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APWeb'2005 (Asia-Pacific Web
Conference)
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ECIR'2005 (27th European
Conference on Information Retrieval)
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ADMA'2005 (Advanced Data Mining
and Applications)
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ATOIP'2005 (Advanced
Technologies for Oriental Information Processing)
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APWEB’2006
(Asia-Pacific
Web Conference)
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ECIR’2006 (European Conference on
Information Retrieval)
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AMT’2006
(Active Media Technologies)
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WAIM’2006
(Web Age Information Management)
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AIRS’2006
(Asian Information Retrieval Conference)
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ICCPOL’2006 (Computer Processing of Oriental Languages)
o SIGIR’2006 (The 29th ACM SIGIR Annual Conference)
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NAACL-HLT’2007
(Human Language Technologies: The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of
the Association for Computational Linguistics)
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SIGIR’2007 (The 30th ACM SIGIR Annual Conference)
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SIGIR’2008 (The 31st Annual
International ACM SIGIR Conference)
o CIKM’2008 (ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management)
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ECIR’2008
(The 30th Conference
on Information Retrieval)
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DIR’2008
(The Dutch-Belgian
Information Retrieval workshop)
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ECIR’2009 (The 31st
European Conference
on Information Retrieval)
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SIGIR’2009 (The 32nd Annual
ACM SIGIR Conference)
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CIKM’2009
(ACM 18th Conference on Information
and Knowledge Management)
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ECIR’2010
(The 32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval)
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Reviewer
for a number of international journals and conferences, including ACM TOIS,
JASIST, IEEE TKDE, SIGIR, HLT, ADCS, ECIR, etc.
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Invited
talks given to various prestigious research organizations, e.g.,
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Visiting researchers to the
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Guest
Editor, ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing - Special issue on Reasoning
in Natural Language Information Processing