Workshop on Social Media at Naacl 10 (I'm a co-chair)
17th November 2009: Awarded another research grant from Google.
Talk at Google, 1st December 2009.
Talk at Xerox, Grenoble 10th December.
I put together the Edinburgh Machine Translation entry for NIST 09
Area Chair for Machine Learning at EMNLP 09
OUP asked us to create a book on Text Technologies (think: web-scale NLP, search etc). This is now going ahead (January 9th 2009). I'm the lead on this.
Another talk: Amsterdam (May 13th 2009).I'm talking at the first UK Hadoop User Group Meeting.
On April Fool's Day 2008, I'll also be talking at Austin, Texas.
Feb 2008: Faculty Summit Meeting at Google Zurich.
17th Dec 2007: Google has given me a research award.
I was at DCU, talking on our Bloom Filter work in November 2007.
I'm the area chair for Machine Translation at CoLing 08.
David Talbot was an intern at Google for the summer of 2007. He applied Bloom Filters to their moderately sized language models.
Publicity for NAACL-07.
Not an event as such, but Reuters ran a story which mentions my stay at Google.
I was on sabbatical leave at Google (Mountain View) from February until August 2006. There I was a part of the SMT Group. That meant I was in the odd position of being a part of the Google NIST team and also knowing about the Edinburgh NIST push. Double agent, me?
Tutorials chair of EACL-06.
This year Edinburgh will be fielding two teams into the NIST Machine Translation exercise. I'm part of one team.
Publications chair of NAACL-04.
Slides for active learning talk at Saarbrucken (December 2003).
At TREC 03, we took part in the Genomics Track.
Co-chair of CoNLL 03. This was at NAACL-03.
Organiser of the Informatics Jamboree for 2003.
CLUK 03 was here in Edinburgh in January 03.
Co PI of a team that participated at a Johns Hopkins Language Engineering Summer Workshop. We bootstrapped parsers from lots of unlabelled training material.
Special issue of Journal of Machine Learning Research on Shallow Parsing. I'm a coeditor.
Along with Rob Malouf,, I taught a course on Stochastic Attribute-Value Grammars at ESSLLI01.