September/2017 |
HUMIC
Organizing committee member for the
Workshop on Designing Humour in Human-Computer Interaction, collocated with
INTERACT 2017, in Mumbai, India
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August/2017 |
WOCHAT-SS2
Organizing committee member for the
Second WOCHAT Special Session on Chatbots and Conversational Agents, collocated with
SIGDIAL 2017, in Saarbrucken, Germany
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June/2017 |
WOCHAT-SS1
Organizing committee member for the
First WOCHAT Special Session on Chatbots and Conversational Agents, collocated with
IWSDS 2017, in Farmington, Pennsylvania
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December/2016 |
DSTC5
Organizing committee member for the
Fifth Dialog State Tracking Challenge,
at
2016 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Lanuage Technology, San Diego, California
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November/2016 |
Tutorial
Continuous Vector Spaces for Cross-language NLP Applications, in
EMNLP 2016, Austin, Texas
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September/2016 |
WOCHAT
Organizing committee member for the
Second Workshop on Chatbots and Conversational Agent Technologies,
at
the Sixteenth International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2016), Los Angeles, California
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August/2016 |
NEWS 2016
Organizing committee member for the
Named Entities Workshop,
at
the 54rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2016), Berlin, Germany
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May/2016 |
RE-WOCHAT
Organizing committee member for the
Workshop on Collecting and Generating Resources for Chatbots and Conversational Agents - Development and Evaluation,
at
LREC 2016, Portoroz, Slovenia
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May/2016 |
Keynote Speech
"Continuous Space Models and the Mathematics of Semantics"
The 17th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW2016), Singapore
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April/2016 |
Invited Talk
"Are language technologies a Nemesis for human languages?"
at
Spanish Language and Book Day, Singapore
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Jan/2016 |
DSTC4
Organizing committee member for the
Fourth Dialog State Tracking Challenge
at the
International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems (IWSDS 2016), Saariselka, Finland
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Dec/2015 |
Special Session
Organizer of Special Session on "Chatbots and Dialogue Agents",
Asia-Pascific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA 2015), Hong Kong
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Oct/2015 |
MuSRobS Workshop
Organizing committee member for the
IROS 2015
Workshop on
Multimodal and Semantics for Robotics Systems, Hamburg, Germany
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Sept/2015 |
Google Science Fair
Our Intern Student Girish Kumar from NUS High won the GOOGLE TECHNOLOGIST AWARD at
Google Science Fair 2015.
A full description of his project REVUP: AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING QUESTIONS FROM EDUCATIONAL TEXTS is available
here.
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Sept/2015 |
IWES Workshop
Organizing committee member for the
SEPLN 2015
International Workshop on Embeddings and Semantics, Alicante, Spain
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Sept/2015 |
Tutorial
Vector Spaces for Cross-language NLP Applications, in
INTERSPEECH 2015
, Dresden, Germany
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July/2015 |
NEWS 2015 Workshop
Organizing committee member for the
ACL 2015
Fifth Named Entities Workshop, Beijing, China
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July/2015 |
HyTra-4 Workshop
Organizing committee member for the
ACL 2015
Fourth Workshop on
Hybrid Approaches to Translation, Beijing, China
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March/2015 |
NII Shonan Meeting
Organizing committee member for the NII Shonan Meeting on
The Future of Human-Robot Spoken Dialogue: from Information Services to Virtual Assistants, Shonan, Japan
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Dec/2014 |
Tutorial
Vector Spaces for Cross-language NLP Applications, in
Asia-Pascific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA 2014)
, Siem Reap, Cambodia
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Dec/2014 |
Special Session
Organizer of Special Session on "Chatbots and Conversational Agents",
Asia-Pascific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA 2014)
, Siem Reap, Cambodia
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Oct/2014 |
IALP 2014
Program Chair of
International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP 2014)
, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
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Apr/2014 |
HyTra-3 Workshop
Organizing committee member for the
EACL 2014
Third Workshop on
Hybrid Approaches to Translation, Gothenburg, Sweden
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Mar/2014 |
Invited Lecture:
"Vector Spaces and Cognition"
at the
TALP Research Centre, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona
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Dec/2013 |
AIRS 2013
Conference co-chair of AIRS 2013,
The Ninth Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, Singapore
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Aug/2013 |
HyTra-II Workshop
Organizing committee member for the
ACL 2013
Second Workshop on
Hybrid Approaches to Translation, Sofia, Bulgaria
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May/2013 |
Invited Lecture:
"Natural Language Processing and its applications to e-commerce, marketing and on-line consumer satisfaction analysis"
at the
Cornell-Nanyang Institute of Hospitality Management, Singapore
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2012-13 |
Development of advanced solutions for text analytics and other business intelligence applications. Focused on text categorization and sentiment analysis for supporting the newly developed solution geteco.com.
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Jul/2012 |
R50 Workshop
Organizing committee member for the
ACL 2012
Special Workshop on
Rediscovering 50 Years of Discoveries, Jeju, Korea
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May/2012 |
CREDISLAS Workshop
Organizing committee member for the Workshop on
Creating Cross-language Resources for Disconnected Languages and Styles
at
LREC 2012, Istanbul
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Apr/2012 |
ESIRMT-HyTra Joint Workshop
Organizing committee member for the Joint Workshop on
Exploiting Synergies between Information Retrieval and Machine Translation (ESIRMT)
and Hybrid Approaches to Machine Translation (HyTra) at
EACL 2012, Avignon
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Nov/2011 |
Area Co-chair at IJCNLP 2011
Served as area co-chair in Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining and Text Classification
for The 5Th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing,
IJCNLP 2011
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Dec/2009 |
Special Session at ICMLA 2009
Organizing committee member for
Special Session on Machine Learning with Multimedia Data a the
ICMLA 2009 conference, Miami
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Apr/2009 |
CAW2 Workshop
Organizing committee member for
CAW2: First International Workshop on Content Analysis for Web 2.0, as part of
the technical program of the
International World Wide Web Conference WWW-2009, Madrid
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Jul/2008 |
Invited Lecture:
"Multidimensional Scaling and Cross-language Information Retrieval"
at
School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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Sep/2007 |
Invited Lecture:
"The UPC's n-gram based Statistical Machine Translation System"
at
Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society (COLIPS),
Singapore
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Jul/2007 |
ICIAM Minisymposium
Organizing committee member for
ICIAM Minisymposium IC/MP295/067
"Global optimization applications via SPSA" at
ICIAM 2007, Switzerland
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Jul/2007 |
Seminar:
"Introduction to Statistical Machine Translation"
in
8th summer school of the European Masters in Language and Speech, Brno
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May/2007 |
Invited Lecture:
"La Traducción Automática Estadística:
Estado Actual del Arte y Retos Futuros" at
V Jornadas de Ingeniería de Telecomunicaciones, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas
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Oct/2006 |
Programa Innova
Participation in the
6th Contest of Business Ideas with the project proposal entitled CHI-SPA-COMM: Chinese-Spanish
Communication Technologies, Barcelona
[slides]
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Jul/2006 |
Seminar:
"Introduction to Statistical Machine Translation" in
7th summer school of the European Masters in Language and Speech, Utrecht
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Jun/2006 |
TC-STAR Workshop
Local committee member for
TC-Star Workshop on Speech-to-Speech Translation 2006, Barcelona
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Jul/2005 |
Invited Lecture:
"La Traducción Automática del Habla" in
El Futuro de los Sistemas de Diálogo, Soria
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