Recent Activities
Member of the ELRA board (2023-)
Member of the UniDive COST Action: Universality, diversity and idiosyncrasy in language technology
Member of the MultiplEYE COST Action: Enabling multilingual eye-tracking data collection for human and machine language processing research
Book Review Editor for Computational Linguistics (CL, 2021-)
Section Editor of Language and Linguistics Compass Journal (Computational & Mathematical section)
Editorial Board of Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL, 2016 –)
Editorial Board of the Journal of Natural Language Engineering (JNLE, 2018 –)
PC Co-Chair for ACL 2022
Keynote Speaker EUROPHRAS 2022
Semeval-2022 Task 2 Co-Organiser: Multilingual Idiomaticity Detection and Sentence Embedding
LREC 2022 Tutorial Presenter: Cognitive and Linguistic BERTology: An Idiomatic Multiword Expression Perspective
COLING 2022 Tutorial Presenter: Cognitive and Linguistic BERTology: An Idiomatic Multiword Expression Perspective
Area Chair for ACL-2021
Diversity & Inclusion Chair for EACL-2021
Senior Area Chair for ACL-2020
Standing Reviewer of Computational Linguistics (CL, 2020-)
Board Member of NAACL
Area Chair for EMNLP-2020
Tutorial Co-Chair for EMNLP-2020
Program Committee Co-Chair for The Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2019)
Senior Area Co-Chair for ACL-2019
Invited Speaker of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and WordNet (MWE-WN 2019, Florence, Italy)
Invited Speaker of the 22nd International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2019, Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Invited Speaker of International Conference on Computational and Corpus-based Phraseology (EUROPHRAS-2019, Malaga, Spain)
Section Editor of Language and Linguistics Compass Journal (Computational & Mathematical section)
Editorial Board of Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL, 2016 –)
Editorial Board of the Journal of Natural Language Engineering (JNLE, 2018 –)
Board Member of the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the Association for Computational Linguistics (SIGLEX) 2013-2016 and 2016-2018
Steering Committee Member of the Iberian Languages Evaluation Forum (IberLEF)
Steering Committee Member of CLEF ProtestNews 2019
Chair of the Steering Committee the International Conference on the Computational Processing of Portuguese (2018-2020)
General Chair of the International Conference on the Computational Processing of Portuguese PROPOR-2018
Area Co-Chair for NAACL-2018
Area Co-Chair for COLING-2018
Senior Program Committee for AAAI-2018
Area Chair of IBERAMIA-2018
Co-organizer of the ACL-2018 Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning. With Thierry Poibeau, Alessandro Lenci and Marco Idiart.
Area Co-Chair for ACL-2017
Advisory Board Member of Women and Underrepresented Minorities in Natural Language Processing WiNLP
Co-organizer of the ACL-2016 Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning. With Anna Korhonen, Thierry Poibeau, Alessandro Lenci and Brian Murphy.
Chair of the PROPOR-2016 Best Dissertation on Language Technology for Portuguese Contest
Co-organizer of the EMNLP-2015 Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning. With Anna Korhonen, Thierry Poibeau, Robert Berwick and Alessandro Lenci
Co-organizer of the EACL-2014 Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning. With Thierry Poibeau, Muntsa Padró and Alessandro Lenci
Co-organizer of the PROPOR-2014 ToRPorEsp: Workshop on Tools and Resources for Automatically Processing Portuguese and Spanish. With Muntsa Padró, Alexandre Rademaker and Laura Alonso Alemany
Area co-chair for EMNLP 2013. With Emily Bender
Co-organizer of the Workshop on Language, Cognition and Computational Models in Paris, May 28-29, 2013. With Thierry Poibeau
Co-chair of the NAACL-2013 Workshop on Multiword Expressions in Atlanta, June 13-14, 2013. With Valia Kordoni and Carlos Ramisch
Guest Editor of the ACM-TSLP Special Issue on Multiword Expressions. With Valia Kordoni and Carlos Ramisch
Co-chair of the EACL-2012 Workshop on Computational Models of Language Acquisition and Loss. With Anna Korhonen, Thierry Poibeau and Robert Berwick
Co-chair of the 10th International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language - PROPOR-2012. With António Teixeira and Fernando Perdigão
Co-chair of the ACL-2011 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: from Parsing and Generation to the Real World. With Valia Kordoni and Carlos Ramisch
Board Member of the Special Interest Group on Natural Language Processing of the Brazilian Computing Society (Comissão Especial de Processamento de Linguagem Natural) from 2011-2013
Area co-chair for ESSLLI 2011. With Markus Egg
Co-chair of the COLING-2010 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: from Theory to Applications. With Eric Laporte, Preslav Nakov and Carlos Ramisch
Co-chair of the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Verbs: The Identification and Representation of Verb Features. With Pier Marco Bertinetto, Anna Korhonen, Alessandro Lenci, Alissa Melinger and Sabine Schulte im Walde
Co-organizer of ENIA - 7th Brazilian Meeting on Artificial Intelligence. With Heloisa de Arruda Camargo
Co-chair of the 7th Brazilian Symposium in Information and Human Language Technology. With Horacio Saggion
Guest Editor of the Computational Linguistics Special Issue on Prepositions in Applications. With Timothy Baldwin and Valia Kordoni
Co-chair of the EACL-2009 Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition. With Afra Alishahi and Thierry Poibeau
Co-chair of the ACL-2007 Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition. With Anna Korhonen and Paula Buttery
Co-organizer of the ESSLLI 2006 course on Data-Driven Methods for Acquiring Linguistic Information. With Timothy Baldwin, Anna Korhonen and Valia Kordoni
Co-chair of the COLING/ACL-2006 workshop on Multiword Expressions: Identifying and Exploiting Underlying Properties. With Begona Villada-Moiron, Diana McCarthy, Stefan Evert and Suzanne Stevenson
Co-organizer of the LFG05-Workshop on Agreement and its role in grammar. With Mary Dalrymple, Louisa Sadler and Irina Nikolaeva
Co-chair of the ACL-SIGLEX 2005 Workshop on Deep Lexical Acquisition. With Timothy Baldwin and Anna Korhonen
Co-chair of the ACL-2004 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Integrating Processing. With Takaaki Tanaka, Anna Korhonen and Francis Bond
Guest Editor of the Computer Speech and Language Special Issue on Multiword Expressions. With Anna Korhonen, Francis Bond and Diana McCarthy
Co-chair of the ACL-2003 workshop on Multiword Expressions: Analysis, Acquisition and Treatment. With Francis Bond,Anna Korhonen and Diana McCarthy