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).