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

• Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 2005-2008; associate editor, 2008-2011
• Machine Learning Journal, 2001-2004, 2006-2008, 2008-2011 (website at Kluwer)
• Computational Linguistics, 2000-2002 (website at MIT Press )

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