Offices

• Area Chair for the area Discourse, Dialogue and Pragmatics at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, Singapore, August 2-7, 2009 (ACL-IJCNLP '09)


• Senior Program Committee Member (i.e. area chair) for the area Discourse, Dialogue, Multimodality at the Human Language Technology Conference/North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics Annual Meeting, New York City, June 4-9 2006 (HLT-NAACL '06)


• Area Chair for the area Discourse, Dialogue, Multimodality at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Ann Arbor, MI, June 25-30, 2005 (ACL '05)


• PC Co-Chair for the 5th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Cambridge, MA, April 30 - May 1, 2004 (SIGdial '04)


• Represented the area Discourse and Dialogue at the PC meeting for the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Sapporo, Japan, July 7-12, 200 (ACL '03)

Editorial Board

• Research on Language and Computation


• Dialogue and Discourse

Journal Reviews

• ACM Transactions on Asian Language Processing (ACM TALIP) 2005


• ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing (ACM TSLP) 2008, 2009


• Bioinformatics 2007, 2008


• Computational Intelligence 2006


• Computational Linguistics (CL) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008


• Discourse Processes 2007, 2009


• Data and Knowledge Engineering 2009


• IEEE Intelligent Systems 2008


• Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) 2006, 2007, 2009


• Language Resources and Evaluation (LRE) 2009


• Speech Communication (SpeCom) 2004, 2005, 2006

Selected Conference Review Panels and Program Committee Memberships

• AAAI - National Conference on Artificial Intelligence: 2007 (Special Track on Artificial Intelligence and the Web)


• ACL - Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008


• COLING - International Conference on Computational Linguistics: 2000, 2010


• EACL - Meeting of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: 2003, 2006, 2009


• EMNLP - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: 2003, 2005 (HLT-EMNLP), 2007 (EMNLP-CoNLL), 2008, 2009


• ESWC - European Semantic Web Conference: 2008


• ICASSP - International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing: 2007, 2008


• IJCNLP - International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing: 2004, 2008


• INLG - International Conference on Natural Language Generation: 2010


• ISWC - International Semantic Web Conference: 2007 (ISWC & ASWC)


• LREC - Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation: 2008


• NAACL - Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: 2000, 2001, 2007, 2009, 2010


• Semdial - Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue: 2003, 2006


• SIGdial - Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue: 2000, 2001, 2003


• SLT - Spoken Language Technology Workshop: 2006

External Reviewer

• Xiaofeng Yang, Ph.D. in Computer Science, National University of Singapore, 2006.

Book Proposal Reviews

• Springer Verlag, 2007

Reviewing for Funding Agencies

• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation), 2008


• Klaus-Tschira Foundation, Heidelberg, Germany, 2001 -- present


• Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO, Social Science Research Council of the Netherlands), 1998