Professional Activities

Conference and Workshop Organisation:

Demonstration co-chair of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'2014), Baltimore, USA, 2014.
Area co-chair "UMAP in the social era" of the 22nd Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP'2014), Aalborg, Denmark, 2014.
Co-organiser of the International Conference "Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing" (RANLP'2013), Hissar, Bulgaria, 2013.
Co-organiser of the International Conference "Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing" (RANLP'2011), Hissar, Bulgaria, 2011.
Area co-chair for Information Extraction at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'10), Upsala, Sweden, 2010.
Area chair for Information Extraction, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), October 2010.
Workshops co-chair at the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC'10), Heraklion, Greece, 2010.
Demos co-chair at the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'08), Manchester, UK, 2008.
Co-organiser of the 1st International Workshop on Ontology-based Business Intelligence (OBI'08).
Co-organiser of the 4th International Workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering (SWESE'08).
Co-organiser of the International Conference "Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing" (RANLP'07), Borovetz, Bulgaria, 2007.
Co-organiser of the International Conference "Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing" (RANLP'05), Borovetz, Bulgaria, 2005.
Co-organiser of the 10th International Conference on User Modelling (UM'05), Edinburgh, UK, 2005.

International Conference "Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing", Borovetz, Bulgaria, 2003.
Co-organiser of the Workshop on Information Extraction for Slavonic and other Eastern and Central European Languages, held in conjunction with RANLP, 2003.
Co-organiser of the International Conference "Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing", Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, 2001.
Co-organiser of the International Conference "Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing", Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, 1997.
Co-organiser of the International Summer School on "Contemporary Topics in Computational Linguistics", Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, 1997.

Tutorials

2014	NLP for Social Media at EACL 2014
2013	NLP for social media, a week long course for PhD students in Szeged, Hungary, December 2013
2013	Semantic Search at the PROMISE Winter School 2013
2008	Transitioning Legacy Applications to Ontologies: A Hands-on Tutorial at European Semantic Web Conferences
2004-2006	Tutorials on Human Language Technology for Knowledge Management and the Semantic Web at the European Semantic Web Conferences
2003	Tutorial on Named Entity Recognition at RANLP 2003

A Programme Committee member/reviewer for:

ACL 2014, the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, June 2014
EACL 2014, 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, April 2014
WebSci 2014, Web Science Track at the 23rd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2014), April 2014
LREC 2014, the 9th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, May 2014
ACL 2013, the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, August 2013
EMNLP 2013, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, October 2013
AAAI 2013, the Twenty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
ISWC 2013, the 12th International Semantic Web conference, October 2013
RANLP 2013, Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, September 2013
I-SEMANTICS 2013, the 9th International Conference on Semantic Systems, September 2013
ENLG 2013, the 14th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, 2013
BSNLP 2013, Balto-Slavonic Natural Language Processing Workshop, 2013
ACL 2012, the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2012
COLING 2012, the 24th International Conference in Computational Linguistics, 2012
ESWC 2012, the 9th Extended Semantic Web Conference, June 2012
LREC 2012, the 8th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2012
KONVENS 2012, The 11th Conference on Natural Language Processing
I-SEMANTICS 2012, the 8th International Conference on Semantic Systems
AUM 2012, Workshop on Augmented User Modelling
Xperience Web 2012: Reasoning from Experiences on the Web
Workshop on Interacting with Linked Data (ILD 2012), collocated with ESWC 2012
ISWC 2011, the 10th International Semantic Web conference, October 2011
EMNLP 2011, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, August 2011
I-SEMANTICS 2011, the 7th International Conference on Semantic Systems, September 2011
RANLP 2011, Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, September 2011
ESWC 2011, the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference, June 2011
2nd Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web, collocated with ISWC, October 2011
RANLP’2011 Workshop on Information Extraction and Knowledge Acquisition, September 2011
Workshop on Augmenting User Models with Real World Experiences to Enhance Personalization and Adaptation (AUM), held at UMAP, 2011
Workshop on Question Answering over Linked Data, held at ESWC, 2011
ISWC 2010, the 9th International Semantic Web conference, October 2010
ECAI 2010, the 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2010
LREC 2010, the 7th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2010
I-SEMANTICS 2010, the 6th International Conference on Semantic Systems, September 2010
Workshop on New Challenges for NLP Frameworks, Malta, May 2010
8th International Semantic Web conference (ISWC 2009), Washington, USA, October 2009
6th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2009), Heraklion, Greece, June 2009
7th International Semantic Web conference (ISWC 2008), Karlsruhe, Germany, November 2008
5th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2008), Ohio, USA, June 2008
5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008), Tenerife, Spain, June 2008
11th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2008), Innsbruck, Austria, May 2008
6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008), Marrakech, Morocco, May 2008
IJCNLP-08 Workshop on NLP for Less Privileged Languages (IJCNLP 2008), Hyderabad, India, January 2008
6th International Semantic Web conference (ISWC 2007), Busan, Korea, November 2007
Second European Technology Enhanced Learning Conference (EC-TEL 2007) Crete, Greece, September 2007
45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2007), Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007
4th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2007), Innsbruck, Austria, June 2007
11th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG 2007), Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, June 2007.
16th International World-Wide Web conference (WWW 2007), Banff, Alberta, Canada, May 2007.
WWW 2006, the World-Wide Web conference, Edinburgh, UK, May 2006
ISWC 2006, the International Semantic Web conference, Athens, US, November 2006
AIMSA 2006, International conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methods, Systems, and Applications, Bulgaria, September 2006
EC-TEL 2006, First European Technology Enhanced Learning Conference, September 2006
INLG 2006, International Natural Language Generation Conference, July 2006
ESWC 2006, European Semantic Web Conference, Montenegro, June 2006
LREC 2006, 5th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Italy, May 2006
EACL 2006, International Conference of the European Association of Computational Linguistics, Trento, Italy, April 2006
IJCAI'2005 Workshop on Natural Language Generation and the Semantic Web: Perspectives and Challenges, 2005.
Sixth Annual Conference on Intelligent text processing and Computational LINGuistics (CICLing'05), 2005.
International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI2005), 2005 (special reviewer).
3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2004), 2004.
Journal of Natural Language Engineering, special issue on Architectures for Language Engineering, 2004.
Fifth Annual Conference on Intelligent text processing and Computational LINGuistics (CICLing), 2004.
Workshop on RDF/RDFS and OWL in Language Technology (NLP-XML'04), held in conjunction with ACL'2004, 2004.
The First International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP-04), "NLP software and applications" track and "Sentence and Text Generation" track, China, 2004.
7th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS'2004), Poznan, 2004.
Program committee of Workshop on Information Extraction for Slavonic and other Eastern and Central European Languages, held in conjunction with RANLP, 2003.
Program committee member of International Conference "Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing" (RANLP), Borovetz, Bulgaria, 2003.
Program committee member of EACL workshop "Evaluation Initiatives in Natural Language Processing", 2003.
Program committee member of the Fourth Annual Conference on Intelligent text processing and Computational LINGuistics (CICLing), 2003.
Reviewer for the 15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'2002), 2002.
Reviewer for the 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'2002), 2002.
Program committee member of the Third annual Conference on Intelligent text processing and Computational LINGuistics (CICLing), 2002.
Program committee member of the Eleventh International Computing Conference, Mexico City, Artificial Intelligence area2002.
Program committee member of International Conference "Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing" (RANLP'2001).
Program committee member of International Conference "Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing" (RANLP'97).
CGTools Workshop Aims to provide a venue for all researchers developing conceptual graph tools. Part of the 5th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS'97).
CGTools Workshop. Details about all currently known CG tools are also available. Related event: 4th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS'96).

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