Service
Service Archive
2021–2026 · Professional
Association for Computational Linguistics
Co-chair since September 2021 alongside Aurélie Névéol and Zhijing Jin; previous co-chairs included Yulia Tsvetkov, Luciana Benotti and Karën Fort.
Professional Service — Scholarly Association Service
2021 · Professional
International Committee for Computational Linguistics
Member since 2021 of the committee that organises COLING and serves the computational-linguistics community.
Professional Service — Scholarly Association Service
2008–2018 · Professional
Association for Computational Linguistics
Edited the ACL Anthology from 2008 through 2018.
Professional Service — Scholarly Association Service
2012–2015 · Professional
Association for Computational Linguistics
Elected at-large to the ACL executive board and served as its first information officer.
Professional Service — Scholarly Association Service
Date not stated · Professional
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Serves as Surveys Editor for JAIR.
Professional Service — Journal Service; start year not stated
2024 · Professional
Information Retrieval
Served on the editorial board of the Springer journal, which became defunct in 2024.
Professional Service — Journal Service; start year not stated
2015–2016 · Professional
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Served in the TACL reviewer pool.
Professional Service — Journal Service
Date not stated · Professional
International Journal on Digital Libraries
Edited a special issue on bibliometric-enhanced information retrieval and natural language processing for digital libraries.
Professional Service — Journal Service; year not stated
Date not stated · Professional
International Journal on Digital Libraries
Edited a special issue on very large digital libraries.
Professional Service — Journal Service; year not stated
Date not stated · Professional
International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing
Edited a special issue on Chinese-language question answering.
Professional Service — Journal Service; year not stated
2024 · Professional
LREC-COLING 2024
General Co-chair of the joint LREC-COLING conference with Nicoletta Calzolari, held in May 2024.
Professional Service — Conference Service
2019 · Professional
NLPCC 2019
International PC Co-chair with Jie Tang for the 8th CCF International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing.
Professional Service — Conference Service
2018 · Professional
JCDL 2018
PC Co-chair with Ed Fox and Vivien Petras for the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries.
Professional Service — Conference Service
2017 · Professional
ACL 2017
PC Co-chair with Regina Barzilay for ACL 2017.
Professional Service — Conference Service
2008 · Professional
SIGIR 2008
Served as registration chair for SIGIR 2008.
Professional Service — Conference Service
2009 · Professional
ACL-IJCNLP 2009
Served as publicity chair and assisted with local organisation.
Professional Service — Conference Service
2006 · Professional
AIRS 2006
Served as publication chair for AIRS 2006.
Professional Service — Conference Service
2016 · Professional
BIRNDL 2016
Programme Co-chair for BIRNDL 2016, held at JCDL in Rutgers, New Jersey.
Professional Service — Workshop Service
2010 · Professional
AIRS 2010
Programme Co-chair for AIRS 2010 in Taipei.
Professional Service — Workshop Service
2013 · Professional
AIRS 2013
Served as publicity chair for AIRS 2013.
Professional Service — Workshop Service; no destination URL supplied
Date not stated · Professional
NLPIR4DL
Organised the inaugural NLPIR4DL workshop.
Professional Service — Workshop Service; year not stated
2014–2016 · Professional
CL-SciSumm Shared Tasks
Helped organise the scientific-document-summarisation shared task for its 2014 pilot and 2016 second run; the corpus is openly available.
Professional Service — Shared Task Service; corpus: https://github.com/WING-NUS/scisumm-corpus
2003–2016 · Professional
Digital-library conferences
Reviewed for JCDL, TPDL/ECDL and ICADL across the years listed on the source page.
Professional Service — Conference Review Service; detailed years retained on source page
2003–2016 · Professional
Computational-linguistics conferences
Area Chair for ACL 2008 and 2012 and EMNLP 2016; reviewed for ACL, EACL, EMNLP, HLT-NAACL, RANLP, COLING, INLG, IJCNLP and SIGIR in the years listed on the source page.
Professional Service — Conference Review Service; historical records prior to 2020
2005–2016 · Professional
HCI, document engineering, multimedia, social media, MOOCs and AI conferences
Reviewed for IUI, DocEng, CIVR, ASONAM, the Coursera Partners Conference research track, IJCAI and AAAI.
Professional Service — Conference Review Service; dates vary by venue
2003–2013 · Professional
Research workshops
Reviewed for R50, AIRS, BUCC, BioNLP, CAW, CREDISLAS, ESIRMT-HyTra, MMIES, MWE, RDSRP, WEAS and WIDM in the years listed on the source page.
Professional Service — Workshop reviewing
Date not stated · Professional
Research journals
One-off reviewer for TOIS, TWEB, TALLIP, JAIR, IPM, TDKE and IJIT.
Professional Service — Journal reviewing; dates not stated
Date not stated · Professional
Journal of Computer Science and Technology
Reviewed articles for the Journal of Computer Science and Technology.
Professional Service — Journal reviewing; dates not stated
Date not stated · Professional
Mobilewalla, Crayondata, PatSnap and Microsoft Research Asia
Collaborated with these companies through research and consulting work.
Professional Service — Consulting; dates not stated
Date not stated · Professional
Research funding agencies
Examined grant proposals in Malaysia and Hong Kong and MOE Tier 2 proposals in Singapore.
Professional Service — External examination; dates not stated
Date not stated · Professional
Universities in New Zealand
Examined doctoral theses in New Zealand.
Professional Service — External examination; dates not stated
Date not stated · Professional
PREMIA
Previously served the Singapore chapter of the International Association for Pattern Recognition as a board member and auditor.
Professional Service — Association service; dates not stated
Date not stated · Professional
Wordster, Inc.
Technical advisor to Wordster, makers of Mobilewalla.
Professional Service — Advisory work; Mobilewalla: http://mobilewalla.com
2023 · Local
NUS School of Computing
Vice Dean for Undergraduate Studies since 2023.
Local and University Service
2012 · Local
NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering
Member since 2012 and eligible to supervise students in the programme formerly known as NGS.
Local and University Service
2016–2022 · Local
NUS School of Computing Undergraduate Studies Division
Managed the undergraduate-enhancements portfolio, including international programmes, accreditation, awards, Orbital, UROP and vNP.
Local and University Service
2016–2022 · Local
French Double Degree Programme
Managed the FDDP with the French Grandes Écoles as part of the Assistant Dean portfolio.
Local and University Service — Assistant Dean portfolio
2016–2022 · Local
NUS Overseas Colleges
Managed NUS Overseas Colleges as part of the Assistant Dean portfolio.
Local and University Service — Assistant Dean portfolio
2016–2022 · Local
Polytechnic Accreditation
Managed polytechnic accreditation as part of the Assistant Dean portfolio.
Local and University Service — Assistant Dean portfolio
2016–2022 · Local
Undergraduate Awards and Nominations
Managed awards and nominations for undergraduates as part of the Assistant Dean portfolio.
Local and University Service — Assistant Dean portfolio; no destination URL supplied
2016–2022 · Local
Orbital Summer Hands-On Computing Programme
Managed Orbital as part of the Assistant Dean portfolio.
Local and University Service — Assistant Dean portfolio
2016–2022 · Local
Undergraduate Research Opportunity Programme
Managed UROP as part of the Assistant Dean portfolio.
Local and University Service — Assistant Dean portfolio
2016–2022 · Local
von Neumann Programme
Managed vNP as part of the Assistant Dean portfolio.
Local and University Service — Assistant Dean portfolio
2018–2021 · Local
NUS ALSET
Led educational-research strategy, seed and research budgets exceeding SGD 350K, policy, reporting and stakeholder coordination.
Local and University Service
2017 · Local
WESST 2017
Organised and chaired an international University workshop on educational technology as part of the ALSET portfolio.
Local and University Service — ALSET portfolio; no destination URL supplied
2011–2018 · Local
Smart Systems Institute
Assistant Director of SSI, formerly the Interactive and Digital Media Institute.
Local and University Service
2012–2013 · Local
School's Term Project Showcase
Initiated and ran the first two iterations of STePS at the end of the academic semesters.
Local and University Service; no destination URL supplied
2006 · Local
Graduate Studies Committee and Final Year Project Committee
Served in 2006–2008 and again from 2009 to the present; the FYP committee was previously called the Honors Year Project Committee.
Local and University Service; discontinuous periods retained in description
Date not stated · Local
Communications and Media Programme
Assistant coordinator for the now-defunct undergraduate bachelor's programme.
Local and University Service; dates not stated
2007 · Local
NUS Committee on Qualitative Student Feedback
Served on the University committee led by Prof. K. P. Mohanan.
Local and University Service
2004–2013 · Local
NUS School of Computing Executive Committee
Represented assistant professors in 2004/2005 and associate professors in 2012/2013.
Local and University Service; discontinuous periods retained in description
2003–2007 · Local
School of Computing IOI/NOI Committee
Served on the school's IOI/NOI committee.
Local and University Service; no destination URL supplied
Date not stated · Local
School of Computing New-Staff FAQ
Started the now-defunct FAQ for new School of Computing staff.
Local and University Service; dates not stated
