Activities

Current activities

• Fellow of the Associaton for Computational Linguistics (2023-)

• Fellow of the European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) (2020-)

• Co-chair for the EMNLP 2024 workshop NLP4Science: The First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Science 

• Member of the ACL Professional Conduct Committee (2021-)

• Action Editor for ACL Rolling Review (ARR) (2021-)

• Editorial Board member (an action editor) for Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) (2015-)

• Editorial Board member for Linguistic Issues in Language Technology (2014-)

• Advisory Board member of SIGDAT (2013-)

• A member of the EPSRC Peer Review College 

• A member of the Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP) 

• A member of Association for Computational Linguistics

• A member of Cambridge Language Sciences

• A member of Cambridge Neuroscience

• A member of Cambridge Cancer Centre

• A member of PublicHealth@Cambridge

• A member of Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)  Steering Committee

Recent activities

• Associate Editor for Journal for Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) (2021-2023)

• Turing Fellow, Alan Turing Institute (2021-2023)

• Member of ACL Executive committee (2020-2022)

• The president of SIGLEX (2016-2019)

• Program Co-Chair for ACL 2019 with David Traum

• Program Co-Chair for CoNLL 2018 with Ivan Titov

• Area Chair for EMNLP 2017

• Area Chair for ACL 2017

• Secretary of SIGLEX (2013-2016)

• Co-chair for the ACL 2016 Workshop on Evaluating Vector Space Representations for NLP with Omer Levy, Felix Hill, Kyunghyun Cho, Roi Reichart, Yoav Goldberg, and Antoine Bordes 

• Co-chair for the ACL 2016 Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning with Aline Villavicencio,Thierry Poibeau, Brian Murphy, and Alessandro Lenci 

• Co-chair for the EMNLP 2015 Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Language Learning with Aline Villavicencio, Thierry Poibeau, Bob Berwick, and Alessandro Lenci 

• Area Chair for *SEM 2014

• Editorial Board member for Computational Linguistics (2011-2013)

• Program Co-Chair for EMNLP 2013 with Tim Baldwin

• Publicity Co-Chair for ACL 2013

• Shared Task Co-Chair for *SEM 2013 with Malvina Nissim

• Member of the Executive Board for SIGLEX (2010-2013)

• Area Chair for EMNLP-CoNLL-2012

• Co-chair for the EACL 2012 ROBUS-UNSUP Joint Workshop on Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Learning in NLP withRoi Reichart, Omri Abend, Ari Rappoport, Anders Soegaard, and Chris Biemann 

• Co-chair for the EACL 2012 Workshop on Computational Models of Language Acquisition and Loss  with Aline Villavicencio, Thierry Poibeau, and Bob Berwick 

• Co-chair for the The EMNLP 2011 Workshop on Unsupervised Learning in NLP with Roi Reichart, Omri Abend and Ari Rappoport

• Co-chair for the The NIPS 2011 Workshop MLINI - Machine Learning and Interpretation in Neuroimaging 

• Co-chair for the NAACL-HLT-2010 Workshop on Computational Neurolinguistics with Brian Murphy and Kai-min Kevin Chang

• Co-chair for the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Verbs - The Identification and Representation of Verb Features, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, November 4-5, 2010 with Sabine Schulte im Walde, Aline Villavicencio, Alessandro Lenci,Alissa Melinger, and Pier Marco Bertinetto

• Area Chair for EACL-2009

• Co-organizer for the Nordic Conference in Computational Linguistics 2009

• Co-chair for the ACL-2007 Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition with Paula Butteryand Aline Villavicencio

• Co-organizer for the ESSLLI-2006 Course in Data-driven Methods for Acquiring Linguistic Information with Tim Baldwin,Aline Villavicencio and Valia Kordoni

• Co-organizer for the ACL-SIGLEX 2005 Workshop on Deep Lexical Acquisition with Tim Baldwin and Aline Villavicencio

• Co-organizer for the ACL-2004 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Integrating Processing with Takaaki Tanaka, Aline Villavicencio and Francis Bond

• Co-organizer for SENSEVAL-3 task with Judita Preiss

• Co-editor for the Computer Speech and Language Special Issue on Multiword Expressions with Aline Villavicencio,Francis Bond and Diana McCarthy

• Co-organizer for the ACL-2003 workshop on Multiword Expressions: Analysis, Acquisition and Treatment with Francis Bond, Diana McCarthy and Aline Villavicencio