People

Organization Committees

• General Chair GSCL 2013, the upcoming annual meeting of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (Gesellschaft für Sprachtechnologie & Computerlinguistik), Darmstadt, Germany (2013)
• ACL 2012: 3^rd workshop "People's Web meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources and their Applications to NLP", Jeju, Republic of Korea (2012)
• Publicity Co-Chair for IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2011), Stanford, USA (2011)
• COLING 2010 (23^rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics), 2^nd Workshop “The People's Web meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources”, Beijing, China (2010)
• Publicity Co-Chair 4th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2010), Pittsburgh, USA (2010)
• Area Chair EMNLP 2009 (Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing), “NLP for Web 2.0”, Singapore (2009)
• GSCL 2009 (8^th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning), Workshop “UIMA as Platform of Modern Language Technology”, Potsdam, Germany (2009)
• ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Workshop “The People's Web meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources”, Singapore (2009)
• Natural Language Processing Track Chair, 2nd IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, San Jose, USA (2008)
• Co-Chair of Best Paper Award, 1st IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, Irvine, USA (2007)

Editorial Boards

• IEEE International Journal of Semantic Computing
• Reviewing Committee of JLCL (Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics), issue 1(2012, Germany (2012)

Program Committees

• ACL 2013: 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, "Lexical Semantics and Ontologies", Sofia, Bulgaria, (2013)
• WWW 2013: 22nd International World Wide Web Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Reviewing "Content Analysis Track" (2013)
• COLING 2012: 24^th International Conference on Computational Linguistics IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, Reviewing "Resources and Annotations" (2012)
• ACL 2012: The 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, area "Lexical Semantics" and "Lexicon and Ontology", Jeju, Republic of Korea (2012)
• ACL 2012: The 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL Special Workshop 2012 - "Rediscovering 50 Years of Discoveries", Jeju, Republic of Korea (2012)
• WWW 2012: World Wide Web Conference, Web Mining Track, Paris, France (2012)
• NAACL-HLT 2012 PC: Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, area "Social Media", Montreal, Canada (2012)
• NAACL-HLT 2012 PC: Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 7^th Workshop Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, Montreal, Canada (2012)
• NAACL-HLT 2012 PC: Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability, Montreal, Canada (2012)
• LREC 2012: The 8^th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Istanbul, Turkey (2012)
• Special Issue on "Natural Language Processing in the Web Era" (2012)
• JLCL (Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics), issue 1/2012, Germany
• Language Resources and Evaluation Journal (2011)
• EMNLP 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in natural Langugae Processing, Edinburgh, Scottland, UK (2011)
• IJCNLP 2011: 5^th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, area Semantics, Chiang Mai, Thailand (2011)
• AAAI11: 25^th Conference on Artificial Intelligence, member of the senior program committee of the area "AI and the Web (AIW)", San Francisco (2011)
• ESWC 2011: Extended Semantic Web Conference: Workshop "Question Answering over Linked Data", Crete, Greece (2011)
• CICLing 2011: 12^th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, Tokyo, Japan (2011)
• ACL-HLT 2011: 49^th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, area NLP for Web 2.0, Portland, Oregon, USA (2011)
• EuroVis 2011, 13^th annual Visualization Symposium, Bergen, Norwegen, (2011)
• EMNLP 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in natural Langugae Processing: Area "NLP for the Web", Cambridge (MA), USA (2010)
• DEKA 2010 (21st International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications): Workshop “TIR 2010 (7th International Workshop on Text-based Information Retrieval), Bilbao, Spain (2010)
• CLEF 2010 (Cross Language Evaluation Forum): Workshop “Cross-lingual Expert Search - Bridging CLIR and Social Media”, Padua, Italy (2010)
• ESWC 2010 (Extended Semantic Web Conference): Workshop “Semantics4People”, Heraklion, Greece (2010)
• LREC 2010: 7^th international Conference of Language Resources and Evaluation, Workshop “UIMA4NLP II: Reusable Language Technology in the Large”, Valetta, Malta (2010)
• LREC 2010: 7^th international Conference of Language Resources and Evaluation, Workshop “New Challenges for NLP Frameworks”, Valetta, Malta (2010)
• LREC 2010: 7^th international Conference of Language Resources and Evaluation, Workshop “Web Services and Processing Pipelines in HLT: Tool Evaluation, LR Production and Validation”, Valetta, Malta (2010)
• NAACL-HLT 2010: North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics – Human Language Technologies, Workshop “The 5th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications”, Los Angeles, USA (2010)
• NAACL-HLT 2010: North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics – Human Language Technologies, Area “Semantics“, Los Angeles, USA (2010)
• RANLP 2009: International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing. Workshop “Adaptation of Language Resources and Technology to New Domains”, Borovets, Bulgaria (2009)
• ACL-IJCNLP 2009: Joint conference of the 47^th 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, Area: “Semantics”, Singapore (2009)
• IJCAI 2009: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Workshop “WIKIAI’09: User-contributed knowledge and AI: An evolving synergy”, Pasadena, California, USA (2009)
• NLP Special Session of 24th of the International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, METU Northern Cyprus Campus (2009)
• LDV Forum: Special Issue of the “Ontologies and Semantic Lexica in Automated Discourse Analysis”
• EACL 2009: The 12^th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Area: “Lexicon, lexical databases, language resources, ontologies”, Athens, Greece
• IEEE Intelligent Systems: Special Issue on Natural Language Processing and the Web (2008)
• LREC 2008 Workshop "UIMA for NLP”, Marrakech (Morocco) (2008)
• Konvens 2008: Textressourcen und lexikalisches Wissen, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Germany (2008)
• ICPC 2008, International Workshop on Semantic Technologies in System Maintenance, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (STSM 2008)
• ACL 2008 (Association for Computational Linguistics), Areas: (i) Lexical Semantics, and (ii) Statistical and Machine Learning for Language, Columbus, Ohio, USA (2008)
• AmI (Ambient Intelligence Conference), Workshop Artificial Intelligence Methods for Ambient Intelligence , Darmstadt, Germany (2007)
• EMNLP (Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing) , Section: Computational Semantics, Prague, Czech Republic (2007)
• ACL 2007 (Association for Computational Linguistics) Student Workshop, Prague, Czech Republic (2007)
• GLDV 2007 (Conference of the German Society for Linguistic Data Processing), Ontologies and Semantic Lexica in Discourse Analysis, Tübingen, Germany (2007)
• EMNLP (Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing), Section: Computational Semantics, Sydney, Australia (2006)
• ACM SIGIR 2006, Workshop “Stylistics for Text Retrieval in Practice”, Seattle, USA (2006)
• COLING/ACL 2006 7^th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Sydney, Australia (2006)
• ACL 2003 (Association for Computational Linguistics), Student Workshop, Sapporo, Japan (2003)

Session Chair

• COLING'2004 in Geneva, Switzerland (2004)
• International Joint Conference of Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), Jeju, South Korea (2005)
• 1st IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, Irvine, USA (2007)
• 2nd IEEE Internaitonal Conference on Semantic Computing. Santa Clara, USA (2008)