Offices

• 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


• Journal of Dialogue Systems

Journal Reviews

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


• Bioinformatics 2007


• Computational Intelligence 2006


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


• Discourse Processes 2007


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


• 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


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


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


• 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


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


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


• 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