Robert Dale: Past Professional Activities

This page lists my professional activities in previous years, and is in the process of gradually being completed: the older information in particular contains gaps. See also a list of activities in 2007.

• Journals
• Committee Memberships
• Membership of Associations
• Conferences and Workshops

• Editor of LT Update, 2002--2004.
• Member of the Editorial Board of Computational Linguistics, 1992--1994.
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Natural Language Engineering, 20xx-2006.
• Member of the Editorial Board of Machine Translation, 20xx-2007.
• Guest Co-editor of the special issue of Computational Linguistics on Natural Language Generation, September 1998.
• Guest Editor of the Special Section on Extended Best Papers from IJCNLP 2005 in ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing, September 2006.
• I've occasionally reviewed for
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computational Intelligence
  • Computer Speech and Language
  • The Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
  • Software Practice and Experience
  • Speech Communication

• Founding member of the executive committee of the Australasian Language Technology Association, 2004.
• Founding Member of the Australasian Speech Industry Council, 2005.

• Member of the Program Committee for the 6th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium (DAARC 2007), 29-30 March 2007, Lagos (Algarve), Portugal.
• Co-organiser of the Workshop on Shared Tasks and Comparative Evaluation in Natural Language Generation, 20-21 April 2007, Washington DC, USA.
• Reviewer for the Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT 2007), 22-27 April 2007, Rochester, NY, USA.
• Member of the Program Committee for the 11th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG07), 17-20 June 2007, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany.
• Member of the Program Committee for the ACL 2007 Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage Data (LaTeCH 2007), 28 June 2007, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Member of the Program Committee for the ACL-PASCAL Workshop on Textual Entailment and Paraphrasing, 28-29 June 2007, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Member of the Program Committee for the 2007 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 28-30 June 2007, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Member of the Program Committee for AI and the Web Track at The Twenty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 22-26 July 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
• Member of the Program Committee for the Workshop on Using Corpora for NLG and Machine Translation, 11 September 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Member of the Program Committee for the Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING-2007), 19-21 September 2007, University of Melbourne, Australia.
• Member of the Program Committee for the Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2007), 27-29 September 2007, Borovets, Bulgaria.
• Member of the Senior Program Committee for the 20th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI-2007), 2-6 December 2007, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

Events in 2006

• Member of the Program Committee for the IUI Workshop on Effective Multimodal Dialogue Interfaces, 29 January 2006, Sydney, Australia.
• Member of the Program Committee for the Recognizing Textual Entailment Challenge Workshop (RTE-2), 10 April 2006, Venice, Italy.
• Member of the Program Committee for Aide à la rédaction - Apports du Traitement Automatique des Langues, 3 June 2006, Paris, France.
• Member of the Program Committee for the special track on Artificial Intelligence and the Web at AAAI-06, 16-20 July 2006, Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center, Boston, USA.
• Local Organisation Co-Chair for the Joint 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Coling/ACL 2006), 17-21 July 2006, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Sydney, Australia.
• Member of the Organising Committee for the Sixth International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG2006), 15-16 July 2006, Sydney, Australia.
• Member of the Program Committee for the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2006, 30 November--1 December 2006, University of Sydney, Australia.
• Member of the Program Committee for The Eleventh Australian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2006), 11 December 2006, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
• Member of the Program Committee for the 21st International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, 17-19 December 2006, Singapore.

Events in 2005

• Program Committee member for the Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL'05), July 6-8, 2005, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
• Program Committee member for the Workshop on Using Corpora for Natural Language Generation at Corpus Linguistics 2005, July 14, 2005, Birmingham, UK.
• Program Committee member for the IJCAI-05 Workshop on Natural Language Generation and the Semantic Web: Perspectives and Challenges, 30 July--5 August 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland.
• Member of the Organizing Committee for PACLING2005 (the 2005 Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics), August 24-27, 2005, Meisei University, Tokyo, Japan.
• Member of the Advisory Board for The Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems, held in conjunction with Interspeech-2005 and the 6th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, September 1, 2005, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Program Chair for IJCNLP05 (The Second International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing), October 11-13, 2005, Jeju Island, Republic of Korea.

Events in 2004

• Program Committee member for the Australasian Workshop on Software Internationalisation, 22 January 2004, University of Otago, New Zealand.
• Area Chair [Sentence and Text Generation] for the First International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, March 22-24, 2004, Hainan Island, China.
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2004), 26-28 May 2004, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Program Committee member for the Third International Conference on Natural Language Generation, 14-16 July 2004, ITRI, University of Brighton, UK.
• Reviewer for the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2004), 23-27 August 2004, Geneva, Switzerland.
• Member of the Scientific Organisation Committee for the Workshop on Robust and Adaptive Information Processing for Mobile Speech Interfaces, 28-29 August 2004, Geneva, Switzerland.
• Member of the Program Committee for the International Language and Cognition Conference (ILCC 2004), 10-12 September 2004, Coffs Harbour, Australia.
• Technical Program Committee member for the 17th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 6-10 December 2004, Cairns, Australia.

Events in 2003

• Organiser of the EACL2003 Workshop on The Computational Treatment of Anaphora, 14th April 2003, Budapest, Hungary.
• Program Committee member for the Ninth European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, 13th-14th April 2003, Budapest, Hungary.
• Program Committee member for the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, July 7-12, 2003, Sapporo, Japan.
• Reviewer for IJCAI 2003: the 18th International Joint Conference on Aritifical Intelligence, August 9-15, 2003, Acapulco, Mexico.
• Member of the Organising Committee for the 2003 Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational LINGuistics (PACLING03), August 22-25, 2003, Dalhousie University, Canada.
• Program Committee member for Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing RANLP-2003, 10-12 September 2003, Borovets, Bulgaria.
• Program Committee member for AI03: The 16th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 3-5 December 2003, Perth, Western Australia.
• Reviewer for the Australasian Language Technology Workshop, 10th December 2003, University of Melbourne.

Events in 2002

• Program Committee member for the ACL 2002 Workshop on Effective tools and methodologies for teaching NLP/CL, July 7, 2002, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• Reviewer in the area of Discourse and Dialogue for the 40th Anniversary Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2002, July 7-12, 2002, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• Program Committee member for the 15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2002), 22-26 July 2002, Lyons, France.
• Program Committee member for Natural Language Generation for the Nineteenth International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2002), 26-30 August, 2002, Taipei, Taiwan.
• Member of the Review Board for the 9th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST-2002), University of Melbourne, 2nd-5th December, 2002.
• Program Committee member for the 2002 Australian Artificial Intelligence Conference (AI'02), Canberra, December 2002.

Events in 2001

• Member of the Program Committee for the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2001), Toulouse, France, 6-11 July 2001.
• Member of the Program Committee of The 14th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'01), 10-14 December, Adelaide, South Australia.
• Member of the Program Committee for The Eighth European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, 6-7 July 2001, Toulouse, France.
• Member of the Program Committee for the 6th Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium, 27-29 November, 2001, National Center of Science, Tokyo, Japan.

Events in 2000

• Member of the Programme Committee for MT 2000: Machine Translation and Multilingual Applications in the New Millennium, University of Exeter, 20-22 November 2000.
• Member of the Program Committee for The Second International Workshop on Natural Language and Information Systems, Greenwich, United Kingdom, September 4-8, 2000.
• Invited Panelist at the ACL-2000 Student Research Workshop, Hong Kong, October 4th-6th 2000.
• Member of the Program Committee for The 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2000), 1-8 October 2000, Hong Kong.
• Reviewer for the Language Technology Joint Conference (ANLP-NAACL'00), Seattle, Washington, April 29-May 3, 2000.
• Reviewer for The 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2000), Saarbrucken, 31 July-4 August 2000.
• Member of Tutorials Program Committee for The 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2000), 29-30 July, 2000, Nancy, France.
• Member of the Program Committee for the Workshop on Impacts in Language Generation: NLG Between Technology and Applications, July 24-28, 2000, Schloss Dagstuhl, Saarland, Germany.

Events in 1999

• Program Chair for the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL99), University of Maryland 20th--26th June, 1999.
• Member of the Conference Committee for the Fourth Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING99), University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, August 25-28 1999.
• Member of the Program Committee for Machine Translation Summit VII (MT-SUMMIT-99), Singapore, 14th--16th September 1999.
• Member of the Program Committee for the Fifth Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium (NLPRS99), Beijing, 5th-7th November 1999.
• Member of the Program Committee for the 12th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI99), Sydney, 6th--10th December 1999.
• Member of the Organizing Committee for the 1999 AAAI Fall Symposium on Using Layout for the Generation, Understanding or Retrieval of Documents, North Falmouth, Massachusetts, November 5-7, 1999.
• Member of the Program Committee for the Australian Applications of AI Symposium, November/December 1999.

Events in 1998

• Member of the Program Committee for The 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (COLING-ACL '98), August 10-14, 1998, Universite de Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
• Chair of the Technical Program Committee for the Fifth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP98), Sydney, Australia, 30th November-4th December 1998.
• Member of the Organizing Committee for the 1998 Australian Natural Language Processing Fortnight, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, January 11th-24th 1998.
• Member of the Program Committee for the New Methods in Natural Language Processing Conference (NeMLaP 3), Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
• Reviewer for the 1998 Australian Artificial Intelligence Conference, Brisbane, Australia, July 13-17, 1998.
• Member of the Program Committee for the First International Workshop on Natural Language and Information Systems (NLIS'98), Vienna, August 24-28, 1998.

Events in 1997

• Member of the Program Committee for the Second International Conference Recent Advances In Natural Language Processing (RANLP97), 11-13 September 1997, Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria.
• Member of the Program Committee for the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the Eighth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-97/EACL-97), Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain, July 7-10, 1997.
• Member of the Program Committee for the 1997 SIGMEDIA Workshop on Referring Phenomena in a Multimedia Context, Madrid, Spain, July 11th 1997.
• Member of the Program Committee for the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI97), Nagoya, Aichi, Japan August 23-29, 1997.
• Member of the Program Committee for the 1997 Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium (NLPRS97), Phuket, Thailand, December 2-4, 1997.
• Member of the Program Committee for the Sixth European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, March 24-26, 1997, Gerhard-Mercator University, Duisburg, Germany.
• Co-organiser of the ESSLLI97 PhD Workshop on Natural Language Generation, August 11-22, 1997, Aix-en-Provence, France.
• Reviewer for the Fifth Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing (ANLP97), 31 March-3 April, 1997, Washington Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC.
• Reviewer for the Tenth Australian Joint Conference On Artificial Intelligence, Perth Australia, 2-4 December, 1997.
• Member of the Organising Committee of the 1997 Australasian Natural Language Processing Summer Workshop, 8th February 1997, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

Events in 1996

• Reviewer for Coling96, Copenhagen.
• Member of the Program Committee for The 12th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI96), August 11-16, 1996, Budapest, Hungary.
• Reviewer for Fourth Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI96), Cairns, Australia, August 26-30, 1996.

Events in 1995

• Reviewer for the 1995 European Natural Language Generation Workshop, 20-23 May 1995, Leiden, The Netherlands..

Events in 1994

• Member of the Program Committee for the Seventh Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'94), University of New England, Armidale, Australia, 21-25 November 1994.
• Reviewer for Coling94.

Events in 1993

• Member of the Program Committee for The 31st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 22-26 June 1993, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.

Events in 1992

• Organiser, The Sixth International Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Castel Ivano, Trento, Italy, 5th--7th April 1992.

Events in 1990

• Member of the Program Committee for The Fifth International Workshop on Natural Language Generation, 3-6 June 1990, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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