Activities

Video Lectures

Organization of Conferences/Workshops/Tutorials/Hackathons (last 5 years)

Co-organizer (with Granciela Conzalez, Abeed Sarker, Michael Paul, Azadeh Nikfarjam and Pierre Zweigenbaum) on the 2nd Social Media Mining for Health Applications Workshop and Shared Task at AMIA 2017
Co-organizer (with Nut Limsopatham, Ingemar J. Cox, Vasileios Lampos, Aron Culotta and Mike Conway) on the Workshop on Mining Online Health Reports at WSDM 2017
Co-organizer (with Jose Camacho-Collados, Mohammed Taher Pilehvar and Roberto Navigli) on the SemEval-2017 Task 2, Multilingual and Cross-lingual Semantic Word Similarity at ACL 2017
Co-organizer (with Jin-Dong Kim, Kevin Cohen and Zhiyong Lu) of the Biomedical Linked Annotation Hackathon 2017
Co-organiser (with Tudor Groza, Anika Oellrich, Nigam Shah and Karin Verspoor) on the Phenotype Day Workshop at ISMB 2016
Co-organizer (with Jin-Dong Kim, Kevin Cohen and Zhiyong Lu) of the Biomedical Linked Annotation Hackathon 2015
Co-organiser (with Tudor Groza, Anika Oellrich, Nigam Shah and Karin Verspoor) on the Phenotype Day Workshop at ISMB 2015
Co-organiser (with Tudor Groza, Anika Oellrich, Nigam Shah and Karin Verspoor) on the Phenotype Day Workshop at ISMB 2014

Advisory Bodies

Study steering committee for the Patient Experiences Data Project DEPEND, NIHR, CI: Caroline Sanders (2015 - present)
Technical consultant and collaborator on the Global Health Security Action Group's technical working group on Risk Management and Communication (2007-2012)

Program Committees (last 5 years)

Journal Editorial Boards

Talks at Research Seminars/Conferences (recent)

Invited talk to the International Society of Pharmacovigilence (ISoP 2017) Tutorial on Pharmacovigilence and the Social Media in October 2017 [slides]
Invited talk at the Workshop for Developing the UK-Korea Healthcare Policy and Technology Relationship in New Fields of Interest at the Seoul National University Hospital in March 2017
Invited talk at the Sokendai Homecoming Day at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo, Japan in March 2017
Invited talk at LOUHI in EMNLP 2016
Invited talk at the EPSRC-sponsored HealTex launch event in Manchester in November 2016.
Invited talk at the Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium ("Natural Language Processing and Online Health Reports") in November 2016 - see here for the video
Guest lecture on "Rumours, Diseases and Drugs" at the Language Detectives session of Festival of Ideas in Cambridge in October 2016

Grant Reviewing

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