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

• Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2005-2008
• Machine Learning Journal, 2001-2004, 2006-2008 (website at Kluwer)
• Computational Linguistics, 2000-2002 (website at MIT Press )

Co-organization and steering committees

• Special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing: New Approaches to Statistical Speech and Text Processing
• Machine Learning special issue on Learning in Speech and Language Technologies, 2003-2004
• The 2002 ACL NLP Course Survey: incorporated into a Wikipedia list of NLP courses
• Text Learning: Beyond Supervision. Workshop at IJCAI-01. (co-organizers: Tony Jebara, Andrew McCallum, and Kamal Nigam)

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)