Robert Dale: Professional Activities

This page lists my professional activities in the current and following year. See also a list of past activities.

Editorial Responsibilities

• Editor-in-Chief of Computational Linguistics, 2003--
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Japanese Natural Language Processing Journal
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Interesting Negative Results in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.
• Member of the Editorial Board of Linguistic Issues in Language Technology, 2007--
• Member of the Editorial Board for the FoLLI Lecture Notes in Logic, Language and Information book series.

Committee Memberships

• Member of the Executive Committee of the Association for Computational Linguistics
• Member of the Conference Coordinating Committee of the Asian Federation for Natural Language Processing

Membership of Associations

• American Association for Artificial Intelligence
• Australasian Language Technology Association
• Association for Computing Machinery
• Association for Computational Linguistics
• Australian Speech Science and Technology Association
• IEEE Computer Society

Conferences and Workshops

I typically review for around half-a-dozen international conferences and workshops each year. Here are my reviewing and program committee activities over the current and following years.

2008

• Member of the Program Committee for IJCNLP 2008, the Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 7-12 January 2008, Hyderabad, India.
• Member of the Program Committee for the AISB Symposium on Style in Text: Creative Generation and Identification of Authorship, 3 April 2008, Aberdeen, Scotland.
• Co-organiser of the LREC Workshop on Natural Language Processing Resources, Algorithms and Tools for Authoring Aids, 26 May-1 June 2008, Marrakech, Morocco.
• Member of the Program Committee for the 2008 International Natural Language Generation Conference, 12-14 June 2008, Salt Fork, Ohio, USA.
• Member of the Program Committee for the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 15-20 June 2008, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
• Member of the Program Committee for The Third Workshop on Issues in Teaching Computational Linguistics at ACL08:HLT, June 2008, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
• Member of the Advisory Committee for YRR-2008: The Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems, 21 June 2008, Columbus, Ohio.
• Member of the Program Committee for the 16th International Conference Intelligent Information Systems, 16-18 June 2008, Zakopane, Poland.
• Area Chair for Summarisation and Natural Language Generation for Coling 2008, the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 18-22 August 2008, Manchester, UK.
• Member of the Scientific Review Committee for Interspeech 2008, 22-26 September 2008, Brisbane, Australia.
• Conference Co-Chair for ICCPOL 2008: 22nd International Conference in Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, December 2008, Hong Kong.
• Member of the Senior Program Committee for AI-08: The Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1-5 December 2008, Auckland, New Zealand.

2009

• Conference Co-chair for The 22nd International Conference on the Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL), 26-27 March 2009, Hong Kong.
• Member of the Program Committee for the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-09), 30 March - 3 April 2009, Athens, Greece.
• Member of the Program Committee for the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT) 2009 conference, 31 May-5 June 2009, Boulder, Colorado.
• Member of the Program Committee for The Workshop on Text and Citation Analysis for Scholarly Digital Libraries (NLPIR4DL), ACL-IJCNLP09, 2-7 August 2009, Singapore.
• Member of the Program Committee for The Workshop on Language Generation and Summarisation, ACL-IJCNLP09, 2-7 August 2009, Singapore.
• Member of the Organizing Committe for The First NLG Challenge on Giving Instructions in Virtual Environments (GIVE), Spring 2009.

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