Professional Activities and Related Information
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for
more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being
eaten?
— Logan Pearsall Smith
Awards and citations
- Faculty Fellow, Institute for the Social Sciences (ISS), Fall 2008
- Cornell University Provost's Award for Distinguished Scholarship
(established by a gift from Ronay and Richard Menschel; for tenured faculty across Cornell),
2007
The other 2007 winners: Piet Brouwer (Physics), Dan Luo
(BEE), and Ted Eisenberg (Law).
- Best Paper
award, HLT-NAACL
2004 (joint with Regina Barzilay)
- Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 2002-2004
- James and Mary Tien Excellence in Teaching Award, 2002
- Stephen '57 and Marilyn Miles Excellence in
Teaching Award, 1999
- "Top picks: Technology Research Advances of 2004",
Technology Research News (joint with Regina Barzilay)
Offices
- Secretary, the
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (NAACL), 2004-2005, 2006-2007
- Program Chair, 2001 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural
Language Processing (EMNLP 2001) (co-chair:
Donna Harman)
- Area Chair, COLING-ACL 2006
- Area Chair, 39th Annual Meeting of the
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2001)
- Workshops Chair, Language Technologies 2001: Second Meeting of the
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (NAACL '01)
Editorial boards
Co-organization and steering committees
Invited participation
- Google Faculty Summit, 2006
- Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, 2006
- IBM faculty summit on the Architecture of On-Demand Business, 2004
- Institute for Mathematics and
its Applications (IMA) workshop,
Data
Analysis and Optimization, 2003
- Project Awards Committee, Johns Hopkins 2002 Workshop on Human
Language Technology Research (WS'02)
- Institute for Mathematics and
its Applications (IMA) Workshop on Mathematical
Foundations of Natural Language Modeling, 2000
- Planning Meeting for Johns Hopkins 1998 Workshop on Language
Engineering (WS '97)
Recent program committees
- The 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2008)
- The 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-08:HLT)
- Seventeenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008), search track
- Third workshop on issue in teaching computational linguistics (TeachCL-08)
- AAAI 2008 workshop, Wikipedia and artificial intelligence: An
evolving synergy (WikiAI08)
- Forty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL 2007)
- Thirtieth Annual International Conference on Research and
Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2007)
- NAACL HLT 2007
- EMLP-CoNLL 2007
- Joint Human Language Technology conference - North American
chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics annual
meeting (HLT-NAACL
2006)
- Twenty-ninth Annual International Conference on Research and
Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2006)
- HLT-NAACL workshop on Graph-based
Algorithms for Natural Language Processing (Textgraphs 2006)
- Forty-first Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL 2003)
- Twentieth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'03)
- HLT-NAACL03 Workshop on Learning Word Meaning from Non-Linguistic
Data (LWM03)
Selected recent conference review panels
- Senior Member Papers track, AAAI 2006
- 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL 2004)
- Human Language Technologies/North American Chapter of the ACL (HLT-NAACL 2003)
- Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (IJCAI-03)
- Nineteenth International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2002)
Tutorials
- Natural Language Technology, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning series, Rome
Air Force Lab, 2000 (slides)
- Statistical Methods in Natural Language
Processing, AAAI
'99 (with John Lafferty)
- Statistical Methods in Natural Language Processing, AAAI '98
(with John Lafferty)
Selected outreach activities
- Co-organizer, North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad
(NAMCLO 2007),
Ithaca competition
- Speaker, Tompkins County Senior Center ``Senior Circuit'' program,
2003 (Talk title: "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do
that": Linguistics, Statistics, and Natural Language Processing
circa 2001)
- Panelist, Tompkins County Community Forum on Frankenstein and the
Future of Artificial Intelligence,
2002
- Boston University Association for Women in Mathematics
discussion, careers after an undergraduate math major, 1995
Memberships
- The American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
- The Association for Computational Linguistics
(ACL)
- The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- ACL Special Interest Group for linguistic data and corpus-based
approaches (SIGDAT)
- ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Learning (SIGNLL)
- ACL Special Interest Group on Mathematics of Language (SIGMOL)
- ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR)
- Intelligent Information Systems Institute (IISI)
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