Service to the Association for Computational Linguistics
Computational Linguistics Journal, member of Computational Linguistics (CL) reviewer team from August 1, 2024 – June 30, 2026
Founding Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Dialogue Systems 2006- (Became the Journal of Discourse and Dialogue Research in 2008, Became the Journal of Dialogue and Discourse in 2009)
Area Chair: ARR May 2025-
Program Co-Chair: EMNLP 2025
Program Committee: CRAC 2024, 2025, 2026, EMNLP 2020, EACL 2020, SIGDIAL 2016, ACL 2016, ACL 2013, ACL 2009, EACL 1999
Program committee: WiNLP Workshop, CoNLL 2023, CODI 2023
Shared Task Co-Organizer: CODI-CRAC Shared Task on Anaphora, Bridging, and Discourse Deixis in Dialogue, COLING 2022
Shared Task Co-Organizer: CODI-CRAC Shared taslk on Anaphora Resolution in Dialogues, EMNLP 2021
Co-organizer of Dagstuhl Seminar “BOTse: Bots in Software Engineering” to be held from Sunday, November 17 to Friday, November 22, 2019 at Schloss Dagstuhl, Wadern, Germany
Program Co-Chair (Discourse) SIGDIAL 2015
Program Co-Chair for the EMNLP 2014 Workshop on Modeling Large Scale Social Interaction in Massively Open Online Courses
Area co-chair for Discourse, Dialogue, and Pragmatics at EMNLP 2013
Advisory Committee for the Young Researchers Round Table for Spoken Dialogue Systems (YRRSDS’11)
Demo chair for HLT-NAACL 2010
Panelist for HLT-NAACL 2010 Student Research Workshop
Faculty Advisor for the HLT-NAACL Student Research Workshop (doctoral consortium) 2009, in collaboration with Anoop Sarkar at Simon Fraser University
Scientific Committee for LREC 2006
Program Committee for the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2005 Workshop on Educational Applications of NLP
Program Committee for ScaNaLU: Workshop on Scalable Natural Language Understanding technology, 2004
Organizing Committee for HLT-NAACL 2003 workshop on Building Educational Applications Using Natural Language Processing
Thematic Session Co-Chair, 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 1999.
Review Committee member, Student Session of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 1997.