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, the Charlotte Observer,
Forbes.com, the Fort Worth Star Telegram, New Scientist, The
New York Times, The Sacramento Bee, Slashdot, Technology Research
News, Technology Review.
Teaching and advising
- Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Award, 2009
Nomination
guidelines
Info on the CS
major curriculum reform
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)
Editorial boards
Selected invited talks
- ICWSM 2009:
A tempest:
Or, On the flood of interest in sentiment analysis, opinion
mining, and the computational treatment of subjective language [pdf, ICWSM version]
- AAAI
2008: ditto [pdf, 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
- 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
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