Some Past Events

Organization

• Chair of the first IJCAI-1999 Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems (See also ETAI )
• Co-chair of the 2nd IJCAI-2001 Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems
• Co-chair of the 3rd IJCAI-2003 Workshop Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems
• Co-chair of the 4th IJCAI Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems, Edinburgh, August 1, 2005
• Co-organizer of the 3rd Workshop on Scalable Natural Language Understanding - SCANALU to be held in conjunction with HLT-NAACL, New York, 2006
• Co-chair of the 7th SIGdial Workshop - SIGDIAL06 held in conjunction with COLING/ACL in Sydney, 2006
• Co-chair of the 5th IJCAI Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems, Hyderabad, India January 8, 2007
• A networking session at ICT 2008 in Lyon 25-27 November on Universal Remote Console (URC) in Smart Homes
• Co-chair of the 6th IJCAI Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems, Pasadena, CA, July, 2009
• Chair of the 7th IJCAI Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems, Barcelona, Spain July 16-18, 2011
• ICMI 2012 14th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Santa Monica, CA (Area Chair)
• Third Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT), to be held in Montreal following NAACL-HLT on June 7th-8th, 2012. (Co-organizer)
• 4th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT), to be held in Grenoble, France prior to Interspeech, 21-22 August, 2013. (Co-organizer)
• 5th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT), to be held in Baltimore, U.S., June 26-27, 2014. After ACL 2014 (Co-organizer)

Scientific/Program Committee Membership etc.

Workshops

• ISCA Tutorial and and Research Workshop (ITRW) on Spoken Dialogue in Mobile Environments
• SCANALU 2002 Scalable Natural Language Understanding
• Seventh Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue DiaBruck 2003
• Dialogue Systems: interaction, adaptation and styles of management EACL 2003
• A Workshop at Berlin XML Days 2003 October 15, 2003 Internet Technologies for Language Applications
• Tutorial and Research Workshop Affective Dialogue Systems - ADS04 Kloster Irsee, Germany, June 14th-16th, 2004
• 5th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue - SIGdial04 Boston, April 30 and May 1, 2004
• 2nd Workshop on Scalable Natural Language Understanding (ScaNaLu) May 6, 2004, following the Human Language Technology conference / North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics annual meeting May 2-7, 2004 The Park Plaza Hotel, one block from the Boston Common
• 2nd Workshop on Text Meaning and Interpretation July 25-26, 2004 at the ACL 2004
• Dialog Systems based on XML Technologies, A Workshop at Berlin XML Days October 11-13, 2004,
• The 9th Workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue (Dialor) Nancy, June 9-11 2005 (Program Committee)
• The 6th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Lisbon, Portugal, 2-3 September 2005 (held in conjunction with Eurospeech/Interspeech 2005) (Program Committee)
• The ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop Perception and Interactive Technologies June 19 - 21, 2006 Kloster Irsee, Germany (Scientific Committee)
• The AAAI-06 workshop on Statistical and Empirical Approaches for Spoken Dialogue Systems, July, 16 or 17, 2006, Boston (Technical Committee).
• The 10th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue - BRANDIAL06, University of Potsdam, Germany, September 11th-13th, 2006 (Program Committee).
• Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTW 2006), Sydney, Australia Nov 30-Dec 1, 2006 (Program Committee)
• 1st international Workshop on Ai for Human Computing, in conjunction with IJCAI'07, Hyderbad, India, January 6, 2007
• The 11th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue - DECALOG 2007, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy, May 30 - June 1, 2007 (Programme Committee).
• 4th Joint Workshop on Machine Learning and Multimodal Interaction, Brno, Czech Republic, June 28-30, 2007 (Programme Committee)
• 8th SIGdial Workshop - SIGDIAL07 held in conjunction with Interspeech 2007, University of Antwerp, Belgium, September 2-3, 2007 (Programme Committee)
• Tutorial and Research Workshop on Perception and Interactive Technologies - PIT08, Kloster Irsee, Germany, June 16-18, 2008 (Scientific Committee)
• LREC workshop Multimodal corpora: From Models of Natural Interaction to Systems and Applications Tuesday, May 27th 2008, Marrakech, Morocco (Programme Committee)
• 9th SIGdial Workshop - SIGDIAL08 (Programme Committee)
• Diaholmia 2009, 24-27 June 2009, Stockholm, Sweden (Programme Committee)
• MiHome - Multimodal Interaction at Home, a Workshop co-located with ICMI - the 10th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, Chania, Crete, October 20-22, 2008 (Programme Committee)
• 5th Joint Workshop on Machine Learning and Multimodal Interaction (MLMI 2008), 8-10 September 2008, Utrecht, The Netherlands (Programme Committee)
• GoTAL 2008, 25-27 August 2008, Gothenburg, Sweden (Programme Committee)
• The 13th WS on the Semantics and Pragmatics of dialogue DiaHolmia, Stockholm, June 24-26, 2009 (Programme Committee)
• Fifth Joint ISO-ACL/SIGSEM Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation isa-5, Hong Kong, January 15-17, 2010 (in conjunction with ICGL 10, the Second International Conference on Global Interoperability for Language Resources, City University of Hong Kong, January 18-20) (Programme Committee)
• Multimodal Corpora: Advances in Capturing, Coding and Analyzing Multimodality, a WS co-located with LREC 2010 18 May 2010, Malta (Programme Committee)
• Companionable Dialogue Systems, a WS at ACL Uppsala, Sweden, July 15, 2010 (Programme Committee)
• ICMI WORKSHOP ON MULTIMODAL CORPORA FOR MACHINE LEARNING Taking Stock and Roadmapping the Future Alicante, Spain, November 18, 2011 (Program Committee)
• Second Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT), ACL EMNLP 2011 Workshop 30 July 2011, Edinburgh, Scotland (Program Committee)
• Eigths Joint ISO-ACL/SIGSEM Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation isa-5, Pisa, October 3-5, 2012 (Programme Committee)
• IWSDS'2012 Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems, Paris, France, November 28-30, 2012 (Scientific Committee)
• Eigth Joint ISO-ACL/SIGSEM Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation isa-8 to be held in conjunction with IWCS 2013, Potsdam, Germany (Programme Committee)
• Fifth International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS 2014), Napa, California, US, January 18-20, 2012 (Scientific Committee)

Conferences

• The First International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP-04) March 22-24, 2004 Sanya City, Hainan Island, China
• Sixth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI'04) October 13-15, 2004 at the Atherton Hotel and the School of Information Sciences Technology Building at the Pennsylvania State University
• 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Forum Convention Centre Barcelona July 21-26, 2004
• The 11th conference of the Eurpoean Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics EACL 2006 Trento, Italy, April 3-7, 2006 (Reviewer)
• Interspeech 2007, Flanders Congress and Concert Centre, Antwerp, Belgium, August 28-31, 2007 (Scientific Review Committee)
• The 3rd IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments - IE07, Ulm University, Germany, September 24-25, 2007 (Programme Committee)
• The 46th annual meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - ACL-08, Columbus, OH, June 15-20, 2008 (Programme Committee)
• Interspeech 2008 September 22-26, 2008, Brisbane, Australia (Scientific Review Committee)
• The 10th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue - SIGDIAL 2009 CONFERENCE, Queen Mary University of London, UK, September 11-12, 2009 (Technical Program Committee)
• The 5th International Conference on Intelligent Environments - IE09, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain, July 20-21, 2009 (Programme Committee)
• Interspeech 2009, The Brighton Centre, Brighton, U.K., September 6-10, 2009 (Scientific Review Committee)
• The Eleventh International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces and Workshop on Machine Learning for Multi-modal Interaction (ICMI-MLMI), Cambridge, MA, November 2-6, 2009 (Reviewer)
• The 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence - ECAI 2010, 16-20 August 2010, Lisbon, Portugal (Programme Committee)
• IceTAL 2010 - 7th International Conference on Natural Language Processing , August 16-18, 2010 Reykjavik, Iceland (Program Committee)
• Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing - EMNLP 2010, 9-11 October, 2010, MIT Stata Center, Massachusetts, USA (Programme Committee)
• The 7th IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments - IE'11, Nottingham, UK, July 25-28, 2011 (Programme Committee)
• (COMPSAC2011) July 18-22, 2011, Munich, Germany. (Programme Committee)
• 13th IFIP TC13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2011 (Reviewer)
• 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART), 28-30 January, 2011, Rome, Italy (Programme Committee)
• SigDIAL 2011 (Program Committee)
• Interspeech 2011, Florence, Italy on August 27-31 (Scientific Review Committee)
• Interspeech 2012, Florence, Portland, Oregon, on September 9-13 (Scientific Review Committee)
• The 50th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistic (ACL 2012) July 8-14, 2012, Jeju, Korea (Reviewer)
• 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for computational Linguistics (EACL12) Avignon France April 23 - 27 2012 (Reviewer)
• 5. Deutscher AAL-Kongress, Berlin, Germany, January, 24-25, 2012 (Program Committee)
• 6. Deutscher AAL-Kongress, Berlin, Germany, January, 2013 (Program Committee)

Misc

• I used to be member of the SIGdial Science Advisory Committee
• Déficients Visuels et Nouvelles Technologies - DeViNT 2011, le 26 mai 2011 (Invited Talk)