Professional Activities
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I have been involved in a number of review and event organization activities.
Organization of Events
- Co-Organizer and Program Co-Chair, New Challenges for NLP Frameworks, Workshop at LREC 2010, May 22, Valletta, Malta.
- Program Co-Chair, The Third International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing (SEMAPRO 2009), October 11-16, 2009, Sliema, Malta.
- Co-Organizer and Program Co-Chair, International Workshop on Semantic Technologies in System Maintenance (STSM 2008) at the sixteenth IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2008), June 9, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- Co-Organizer and Program Co-Chair, Traceability in Software Engineering—Past, Present and Future, Workshop at CASCON 2007, October 25, Sheraton Parkway Toronto North Hotel and Convention Centre, Ontario, Canada.
Program Committee Memberships
- The Fourth International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing (SEMAPRO 2010), October 25-30, 2010, Florence, Italy.
- Fourth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (IEEE ICSC2010), September 22-24, 2010, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
- 33rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, 19-23 July 2010, Geneva, Switzerland.
- The People's Web meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources, Workshop at COLING 2010, Beijing, China.
- 15th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2010), June 23-25, 2010, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK.
- Teaching AI in Computing and Information Technology (AI-CIT 2010), Co-located with Canadian AI 2010, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
- Twenty-Third Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Canadian AI 2010), May 31-June 2, 2010, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
- 8th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA 2010), May 31-June 2, 2010, Montréal, Canada. IEEE.
- The Third International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing (SEMAPRO 2009), October 11-16, 2009, Sliema, Malta.
- The 2nd International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2009), October, 2009, Denver, Colorado, USA.
- Third IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2009), September 14-16, 2009, Berkeley, CA, USA.
- Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2009), August 6-7, 2009, Singapore.
- The People's Web meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources, Workshop at ACL/IJCNLP 2009, August 7, 2009, Singapore.
- The 32nd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, July 19-23, 2009, Boston, MA, USA.
- 14th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2009), June 23-26, 2009, Saarbrücken, Germany.
- The 6th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2009), Demo/Poster Session Reviewer, 31 May-4 June 2009, Heraklion, Greece.
- The 22nd Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2009), May 25-27, 2009, Kelowna, BC, Canada.
- International Symposium on Teaching AI in Computing and Information Technology, co-located with Canadian AI (AI'09), May 24, 2009, Kelowna, BC, Canada.
- The Second Canadian Semantic Web Working Symposium (CSWWS 2009), May 24, 2009, Kelowna, BC, Canada.
- Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2008), November 26-28, 2008, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
- 4th International Workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering (SWESE 2008), Workshop at ISWC 2008, October 26, Karlsruhe, Germany.
- Twelfth International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS 2008), September 3-5, 2008, Münster, Germany.
- Second IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2008), August 4-7, 2008, Santa Clara, California, USA.
- 21st Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Canadian A.I. 2008), May 28-30, 2008, Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
- The 2nd International Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine (LBM 2007), December 6-7, 2007, Biopolis, Singapore.
- 4th International Workshop on Language Engineering: Metamodels, Schemas, Grammars, and Ontologies (ATEM 2007), Workshop at MoDELs 2007, October 1st, Nashville, TN, USA.
- Eleventh International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS 2007), September 6-8, 2007, Banff, Alberta, Canada. IEEE.
- Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2007), October 22-24, 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. IEEE.
- Tenth International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS 2006), December 11-14, 2006, Delhi, India. IEEE.
- Sixth International Conference on Intelligent System Design and Applications (ISDA 2006), October 16-18, 2006, Jinan, Shandong, China. IEEE.
International Journal Editorial Board Memberships
- International Journal On Advances in Intelligent Systems, IARIA.
Other Review Activities
- Project Proposal Reviewer for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grants (DG) 2009 Competition (two proposals).
- Project Reviewer for the Austrian research funding initiative FIT-IT in the area Semantic Systems and Services, 2008, Salzburg, Austria.
- Journal Paper Reviewer, Soft Computing Journal, 2008. Springer.
- Journal Paper Reviewer, Information Systems (IS), 2008. Elsevier.
- Journal Paper Reviewer, Journal of Interesting Negative Results in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning (JINR), 2008.
- Journal Special Issue Review Board Member, Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (JBCB), Special Issue "Making Sense of Mutations requires Knowledge Management"






