Recent Invited Talks
- Separating the Sheep from the Goats: On recognizing the Literal and Figurative Usages of Idioms
- Georgetown University, Washington DC, Feb. 2018.
- University of Maryland College Park, MD, Nov. 2017.
- Natural Language Processing and Its Applications to Healthcare
- UPMC Enterprise, PA, Sept. 2016.
- Relationships between Machine Translation and Grammar Error Correction
- Carnegie Mellon University, PA, Nov. 2014.
- IBM Watson, NY, March 2014.
Invited Participation
- National Science Foundation review panel (multiple years).
- Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Summer Institute. (2011) Faculty.
- National Science Foundation Panel: Scientific Community Onsite Assessment Workshop (2008).
- National Science Foundation Workshop Panel: Developing Linguistic Resources with the American National Corpus (2006).
- Johns Hopkins University 2005 Workshop on Language Engineering (WS 05)
- CRA-W Distributed Mentor Project, 2004.
- Johns Hopkins University 2002 Workshop on Language Engineering (WS 02)
Editorial Team
- Standing reviewer, 2015-present. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
- Editorial board member, 2003-2005. Computational Linguistics.
Office
- North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Past Chair of the Executive Board (2012-2014).
- North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Chair of the Executive Board (2010-2012).
- North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Executive Board Member (2008-2010).
Conference Organization
- Program Co-Chair, 2017. The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.
- Tutorial Co-Chair, 2016. The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.
- Area Co-Chair, 2008. The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (parsing track).
- Area Co-Chair, 2007. Joint Conferences on Human Language Technologies and North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (machine translation track).
- Student Research Workshops Faculty Advisor, 2006. Joint Conference of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics and the Association of Computational Linguistics.
- Area Chair, 2005. Joint Conferences on Human Language Technologies and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (parsing track).