Selected 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

Research

• Faculty Fellow, Institute for the Social Sciences (ISS), Fall 2008. (Cornell press release)
• 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 recipients in 2007: 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

• "Top picks: Technology Research Advances of 2004", Technology Research News (joint with Regina Barzilay)

• Press and internet mentions: ACM TECHNews, NPR's All Things Considered, Boing Boing (by Cory Doctorow), CACM, the Charlotte Observer, the Economist's Johnson blog, Forbes.com, the Fort Worth Star Telegram, The Independent, io9, Nature News, New Scientist, The New York Times, The Sacramento Bee, Slashdot, Technology Research News, Technology Review, the Washington Post's Wonkblog.

Teaching and advising

• Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Award, 2009
  Nomination guidelines
  Info on the CS major curriculum reform; Cornell entry in the CRA-E report 2010 White Paper on Creating Environments for Computational Researcher Education
  The other recipients in 2009: Eric Alani (Molecular Biology and Genetics), Marianella Casasola (Human Development), David Delchamps (ECE)
• James and Mary Tien Excellence in Teaching Award, 2002
• Stephen '57 and Marilyn Miles Excellence in Teaching Award, 1999

Selected offices

• Secretary, the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2004-2005, 2006-2007
• Program Chair, EMNLP 2001 (co-chair: Donna Harman)
• Chair, NAACL Nominating Committee, 2010

Editorial boards

• Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 2005-2008; associate editor, July 2008-2011, 2011-2014
• Transactions of the ACL, action editor, 2012-2013
• Machine Learning Journal, 2001-2004, 2006-2008, 2008-2011 (website at Kluwer)
• Computational Linguistics, 2000-2002 (website at MIT Press )

Selected talks

• South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive, 2012: Human language technology and where it's headed (joint with Jason Baldridge, with contributions from Philip Resnik) [slides]
• South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive, 2011: Sentiment of two women: Sentiment analysis and social media (joint with Bo Pang) [pdf]
• CoNLL 2010 (cancelled due to illness): Clueless: Explorations in unsupervised, knowledge-lean extraction of lexical-semantic information [pdf, abstract]
• ICWSM 2009: A tempest: Or, On the flood of interest in sentiment analysis, opinion mining, and the computational treatment of subjective language [pdf of ICWSM version]
• AAAI 2008: ditto [pdf of AAAI version]
• UAI 2004: What is the matter? Explorations in document classification [pdf]
• Fundamentals of Computer Science symposium, the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council, 2001: “I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that”: Linguistics, statistics, and natural language processing in 2001

Some interdisciplinary activities

• Text Analysis and the Law, workshop sponsored by the UNC Political Science department, November 2011
• New Directions in Text Analysis, conference sponsored by the Program for Text Research, Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard, May 2010
• Cornell Workshop on Grammar Induction, May 2010
• Text as Data, conference at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern, March 2010
• Automated Content Analysis and the Law, NSF-sponsored workshop, August 2009
• New Directions in Text Analysis, conference sponsored by the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard, May 2009
• Faculty fellow, Institute for the Social Sciences, Fall 2008 (see above)

Some outreach activities

• Panelist, forum on advancing in academia, Women's Institute in Summer Enrichment, organized by the Team for Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST), 2008
• Co-organizer, North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NAMCLO 2007, NACLO 2008, NACLO 2009), 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