Professional Services

1. Local Organizing Chair, The 47th Annual Meeting of ACL - 4th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, ACL-IJCNLP 2009, Singapore, www.acl-ijcnlp.org
2. Workshop Chair, The Named Entities Workshop with Shared Task on Machine Transliteration, ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Workshop, Singapore
3. Local Arrangements Chair, The 31st SIGIR (The 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference) 2008, Singapore, www.sigir2008.org
4. Workshop Chair, The 3rd IJCNLP (Int'l Joint Conf. on Natural Language Processing) 2008, Hyderabad, www.ijcnlp2008.org
5. Chair, The 6th SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, 2008, Hyderabad, http://www.ijcnlp2008.org/sighan6/
6. Technical Track Chair, 5th ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Virtual-Reality Continuum and its Applications in Industry (VRCAI 2008), 8-9 December 2008, Singapore
7. Program Chair, Infocomm Horizons 2007, http://horizons07.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/
8. Senior Researcher, Johns Hopkins University 2007 Summer Workshop on Human Language Technology
9. Member of Standing Committee, National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communications, China, 2006-
10. Member of Scientific Review Committee , Interspeech 2007-, www.interspeech2007.org
11. Conference General Chair, The 5th ISCSLP (International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing), 2006. www.iscslp2006.org
12. External Reviewer, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong Government, 2005
13. Member of Evaluation Panel, Singapore-Israel Industrial R&D foundation, 2005-
14. Member of Program Committee
    • New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction, 2009
    • The International Conference on the Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL), 2009
    • SIGIR Workshop - Spontaneous Conversational Speech Workshop, 2008
    • The 6th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2008
    • Oriental COCOSDA (The International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques), 2003-2008
    • Odyssey Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop, 2007
    • The 5th SIGHAN Workshop, 2006
    • Asian Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS), 2006
    • International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages(ICCPOL), 2006
15. Reviewer
    • IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
    • IEEE Signal Processing Letters
    • Information Retrieval
    • ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing
    • Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
    • International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
    • International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP)
    • International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME)
    • Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
    • Annual Meeting of Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL)
    • Interspeech
    • Asian Information Retrieval Symposium
    • International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision

Editorial Services

1. Associate Editor, Springer International Journal of Social Robotics, 2007-
2. Guest Editor, Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (CLCLP), 2007, http://www.aclclp.org.tw
3. Guest Editor, International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (IJCPOL), 2007, http://www.worldscinet.com/ijcpol/ijcpol.shtml
4. Guest Editor, ACM Transactions on Asian Languages Information Processing, 2007

Professional Membership

1. Member of Executive Committee, Board Member of AFNLP, Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, 2006-, Chair of Communications and Liaison Committee, AFNLP. www.afnlp.org
2. Vice President of COLIPS, Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society, 2006-2008. www.colips.org
3. Senior Member of IEEE, 1990-
4. Member of ISCA
5. Member of ACL

Keynote/Invited Speeches

1. PACLIC 22 (Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation) 2008
2. ACM SIGIR 2008 Workshop: Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech, July 24, 2008
3. Human Language Technology Industrial Forum 2008
4. PREMIA Workshop 2007
5. Oriental COCOSDA 2007
6. Asian Biometrics Conference 2007
7. 2nd Workshop on Asian Applied NLP and Language Resource Development 2007