Professional Roles

• Speaker of the Computational Linguistics Group of the German Linguistic Society, since 2008
  DGfS CL Group
  
  
• Co-organiser of the Verb Workshop 2010
  Interdisciplinary Workshop on Verbs - The Identification and Representation of Verb Features
  Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, November 4-5, 2010
  
  
• Program committee member of KONVENS 2010
  Saarbrücken, September 6-8, 2010
  
  
• Program committee member of ESSLLI 2010
  Area specialist for Language and Computation
  Copenhagen, August 9-20, 2010
  
  
• Editorial board member of Computational Linguistics, 2007-2009
  Journal of Computational Linguistics, MIT Press
  
  
• Demo co-chair of ACL/IJCNLP 2009
  Singapore, August 2-9, 2009
  
  
• Area co-chair of ACL/HLT 2008
  Statistical and Machine Learning Techniques for Language
  Columbus, OH, June 15-20, 2008
  
  
• Co-organiser of the COLING 2008 Workshop
  Human Judgements in Computational Linguistics
  
  
• Co-organiser of the DGfS-CL Postersession 2007
  Poster session at the annual meeting of the DGfS
  Siegen, Germany, February 28-March 2, 2007
  
  
• Co-editor: Studienbibliographie Computerlinguistik und Sprachtechnologie, 2006
  Print and online bibliography on computational linguistics and language technology
  [online version (in German)]
  
  
• Co-organiser of the IGK Annual Meeting 2006
  Annual meeting of the International Graduate School (Saarbrücken/Edinburgh)
  Edinburgh and Firbush, Scotland, September 6-15, 2006
  
  
• Co-organiser of the IGK Annual Meeting 2005
  Annual meeting of the International Graduate School (Saarbrücken/Edinburgh)
  Trier, Germany, July 6-15, 2005
  
  
• Co-organiser of the Verb Workshop 2005
  Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Identification and Representation of Verb Features and Verb Classes
  Saarland University, February 28 - March 1, 2005
  
  
• Co-organiser of the IGK Annual Meeting 2004
  Annual meeting of the International Graduate School (Saarbrücken/Edinburgh)
  Edinburgh and Firbush, Scotland, September 6-17, 2004
  
  
• Co-organiser of TaCoS 1996
  Annual meeting of the German-speaking students of Computational Linguistics
  University of Stuttgart, May 15-18, 1996
  
  

Reviewing

• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
• The 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
• Student Research Workshop at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-SRW)
• The 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)
• The 14th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNNL)
• The 10th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS)
• ACL Workshop on Geometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics
• NAACL Workshop on Computational Neurolinguistics
• COLING Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon
• ESSLLI Workshop on Compositionality and Distributional Semantic Models

• Computational Linguistics: Editorial Board Member
• Natural Language Engineering: Special Issue on Distributional Lexical Semantics
• Behavioural Research
• Philosophical Transactions
• Syntax. An International Handbook
• Demo Chair of The 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-IJCNLP)
• The 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)
• The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language (EMNLP)
• The 13th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNNL)
• EACL Workshop on Geometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics
• EACL Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition

• Computational Linguistics: Editorial Board Member
• Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
• Area Chair of The 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
• The 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI)
• The 9th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS)
• COLING Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon
• ESSLLI Workshop on Distributional Lexical Semantics

• Computational Linguistics: Editorial Board Member
• Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
• The 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
• Student Research Workshop at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-SRW)
• ACL Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition
• The joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNNL)
• The joint Conference on Human Language Technology and the Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL)

• Computational Linguistics: Special Issue on Semantic Role Labeling
• Natural Language Engineering
• The joint Conference on Human Language Technology and the Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL)
• The International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC)
• The 11th Student Session at the European Summer School in Logic Language and Information (ESSLLI)

• Natural Language Engineering
• Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
• The 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
• The joint Conference on Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT-EMNLP)
• ACL Workshop on Deep Lexical Acquisition

• Computer Speech and Language: Special Issue on Multiword Expressions
• Natural Language Engineering
• Machine Learning: Special Issue on Learning in Speech and Language Technologies

• The 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
• Student Research Workshop at the 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-SRW)