Founding Director (2023-Present), Amazon-Illinois Center on AI for Interactive Conversational Experiences (AICE)
NAACL Secretary
2022
Program Committee Co-Chair, the 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP2022)
Information Extraction Senior Area Chair, ACL2022
Tutorial Chair, The 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING2022)
NAACL Secretary
2021
Member, EMNLP2021 Best Paper Award Committee
Information Extraction Senior Area Chair, NAACL2021
Chair, ACL2021 Demo Track
NAACL Secretary
Graduate Study Committee, UIUC CS Department
Award Committee, UIUC CS Department
Faculty Recruitment Interactive Computing Sub-Committee, UIUC CS Department
Graduate Admission Committee Member, RPI CS Department
Academic Advisor for Undergraduates, RPI CS Department
Information Extraction Area Chair, ACL2016
Information Extraction Area Chair, NAACL2016
Task Leader, US ARL NS-CTA Knowledge Network Construction
Standing Elite Reviewer, Transactions of Association for Computational Linguistics
Financial Chair, IJCAI2016
2015
Graduate Admission Committee Member, RPI CS Department
Academic Advisor for Undergraduates, RPI CS Department
Information Extraction Session Chair, ACL2015
Guest Editor, Core NLP issue of IEEE Intelligent Systems
Program Chair, the 10th CIPS Summer School
Vice Program Committee Chair, CCL2015
US NSF Panelist
Information Extraction Area Chair, EMNLP2015
Task Leader, US ARL NS-CTA Knowledge Network Construction
Program Committee Chair, NLPCC2015
Program Committee Member, ACL2015 IE Track
Coordinator, NIST TAC-KBP2015 Tri-lingual Entity Discovery and Linking track
Standing Elite Reviewer, Transactions of Association for Computational Linguistics
Financial Chair, IJCAI2016
2014
Task Leader, US ARL NS-CTA Knowledge Network Construction
Session Chair, EMNLP2014
Chair, WWW2015 Content Analysis Track
Guest Editor, Core NLP issue of IEEE Intelligent Systems
Organizer of Entities and Relations Session of DARPA DEFT Phase II PI Meeting
Program Committee Member for EMNLP2014
Reviewer for Computational Linguistics Journal
Financial Chair for IJCAI2016
Program Committee Member for COLING2014
IE&QA&user interface area chair for the 2014 International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing (NLPCC'2014)
Coordinator for NIST TAC KBP2014 Entity Linking track
Program Committee Member for AAAI2014
Program Committee Member for ACL2014, IE area and Semantics area
Program Committee Member for 1st International Workshop on High Performance Computing for Big Data
Program Committee Member for ASONAM2014
Program Committee Member for the 2nd Workshop on EVENTS: Definition, Detection, Coreference, and Representation
Editorial Board member, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
Reviewer for Transactions of ACL
Program committee member for Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA9)
2013
Editorial Board member, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
Member of RPI CS Graudate Admissions Committee, Graduate Curriculum Committee, Promotion&Tenure Committee
Guest Editorial Board member for ACM Transactions on Information Systems special issue on "Time and Information Retrieval"
Session Chair of Information Extraction and Text Mining, ACL2013
Doctoral Faculty Membership Committee Member, CUNY Graduate Center CS Program
Co-organizer of CUNY Natural Language Processing Seminar
Reviewer for Transactions of ACL
Area Chair on Information Extraction, EMNLP2013
Program Committee Vice Chair for the 2013 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
Program Committee Member for IEEE BigData in Biomedicine and Bioinformatics
NSF IIS Panelist
Program Committee Member for 2013 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
Program Committee Member for NAACL2013 Workshop on Events: Definition, Detection, Coreference, and Representation
Area Chair on Text Mining and Information Extraction, ACL2013
Program Committee Member for the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM2013)
Program Committee Member for the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM2013)
Program Committee Member for ACL2013 Statistical and Machine Learning area
Program committee member for Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA8)
2012
Reviewer for Transactions of ACL
Reviewer for Machine Learning Journal Special Issue on Machine Learning for Science and Society
Reviewer for Transactions of Information Systems
Reviewer for Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
Reviewer for Information Processing and Management
Program committee member for the 2nd CIPS-SIGHAN Joint Conference on Chinese Language Processing (CLP-2012)
Reviewer for COLING2012 Content/Information Extraction and Text Mining area and Coreference Resolution area
Revewer for Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Program Commttee Member for the International Conference on Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM2012)
Reviewer for Transactions on Speech and Language Processing
Program Committee Member for CIKM2012, Information Retrieval area
Program Committee Member for EMNLP-CONLL2012, Information Extraction area
Panelist for the U.S. National Science Foundation
Program Committee Member for ACL2012 Workshop on Multilingual Modeling
Reviewer for Transactions on Information Systems
Program Committee Member for IMMM2012
2011
Program Committee member of LREC2012
Program Committee member of "Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications" at NAACL 2012
Reviewer for Journal of Computers
Reviewer for Journal of Computer Science and Technology
Program Committee Member for International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining
Information Extraction Area Chair for NAACL-HLT2012
Program Committee Member for ACL2012 (Information Extraction area and Language Resources area)
Program Committee Member for conference of the European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL2012) (Information Extraction area)
Reviewer for IEEE Journal
Reviewer for IJCNLP2011
Reviewer for the 12th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration
Reviewer for Journal of Information Processing and Management
Reviewer for Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing 2011
Program Committee Member for ICML2011 Workshop on Learning from Unstructured Clinical Text
Reviewer for Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Reviewer for International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making
Reviewer for ACM TALIP Special Issue on Chinese Language Processing
Program Committee Member for EMNLP2011, Information Extraction and Semantics Areas
Coordinator of the NIST Text Analysis Conference 2011 Knowledge Base Population Task
Program Committee Member for Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-11)
Program Committee Member for ACL-HLT 2011 "Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications" Workshop
Reviewer for Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing
Reviewer for IEEE’s Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Reviewer for International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition
Reviewer for Language Resources and Evaluation
Program Committee Member for CPSWeek Workshop on Analysis and Control of Information Distillation Systems
Co-organizer of CUNY Natural Language Processing Seminar
Reviewer for Text Analytics Conference 2010 Proceedings
2010
Session Chair for Asian Information Retrieval Society
Session Chair for Asian Conference on Education
Reviewer for Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing
Reviewer for International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making
Program Committee Member for Book "Multi-source, Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarisation", Springer
Reviewer for Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Reviewer for Journal of Language Resources and Evaluation
Reviewer for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Program Committee Member for EMNLP 2010 in the following areas: Information Extraction and Multilinguality
Program Committee Member for the 1st CIPS-SIGHAN Joint Conference on Chinese Language Processing 2010
Reviewer for International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition
Reviewer for Journal of Sustainability, Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI)
Panelist for U.S. NSF IIS program and ISIS program
Reviewer for ACM Internatinal conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 2010)
Program Committee Member for NAACL-HLT 2010 workshop on Semantic Search
Invited attendee for NSF-sponsored Workshop on Chinese Temporal Annotation
Invited Reviewer for Austrian Science Fund
Invited Book Reviewer for Oxford University Press on Natural Language Processing
Program Committee Member for ACM SIGIR 2010 Conference (for both oral papers and posters)
Leader of Human Data Integration Task and Uncertainty Modeling Task in the US Army Research Lab's Information Network Project
Coordinator of the NIST Text Analysis Conference 2010 Knowledge Base Population Task
Organizer for the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad 2010 ( New York area)
Co-organizer of CUNY Natural Language Processing Seminar
Program Committee member for the ACM KDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 2010
Reviewer for The 11th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT 2010)
Program Committee member for the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010), in the following three areas: Information Extraction, Chinese Natural Language Processing and Text Mining
Program Committee member for the Fourth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-2010)
2009
Leader of Human Data Integration Task and Uncertainty Modeling Task in the US Army Research Lab's Information Network Project
Coordinator of the NIST Text Analysis Conference Knowledge Base Population Task 2010
Organizer for the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad 2010 (New York area)
Organizer of CUNY Natural Language Processing Seminar
Co-organizer for NSF-sponsored JHU summer Workshop 2009 on Unsupervised Acquisition of Lexical Knowledge from N-Grams
Reviewer for Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing 2009
Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing
Panelist for U.S. National Science Foundation IIS Program
Program Committee Member for ACM SIGIR 2009
Program Committee Member for Joint conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (ACL/IJNLP 2009)
Program Committee Member for Twenty-first International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09)
Reviewer for North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT) 2009
Program Committee Member for International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media 2009
2008
Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing
Reviewer for National Science Foundation
Secondary Reviewer for CONLNG 2008 Multi-source Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization Workshop
Reviewer for CONLL 2008
Program Committee Member for EMNLP 2008
Reviewer for IEEE Intelligent Systems Special Issue on Natural Language Processing and the Web
Program Committee Member for AAAI International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media
2007
Reviewer for Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLING 2008)
Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing
Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing
Scientific Committee Member for Journal of Information Systems
Reviewer for Journal of Lingvisticae Investigationes
2006
Program Committee Member for Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2006) workshop on Information Extraction Beyond the Document
Reviewer for ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2006)
2005
Reviewer for Journal of Chinese Information Processing
