Anoop Sarkar: Professional Activities

Professional Service

Secretary of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Conferences

• Conference chair:
  • Program co-chair, CoNLL 2010: Fourteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, July 15-16, 2010. Uppsala, Sweden.
  • Faculty Advisor for the NAACL HLT 2009 Student Research Workshop, Boulder, Colorado, June 1-3, 2009.
  • Program Co-Chair, Ninth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms: TAG+9, Tübingen, Germany, June 7-8, 2008.
  • Area Chair, Parsing, EMNLP-CoNLL 2007, Prague, Czech Republic, June 28-30, 2007.
  • Area Chair, Machine Learning methods, COLING/ACL 2006, Sydney, Australia, 7th-21st July 2006.
  
  
• Conference/workshop reviewing:
  • Reviewer, Computational Linguistics journal
  • Reviewer, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2012.
  • Reviewer, Annual Meeting of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL HLT 2012.
  • Reviewer, Annual Meeting of the European Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2012.
  • Reviewer, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL HLT 2011.
  • Reviewer, 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: EMNLP 2011
  • Program Committee, Conference on Natural Language Learning: CoNLL 2011.
  • Program Committee, Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Canadian AI 2011.
  • Reviewer, The 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing: IJCNLP 2011.
  • Invited Applications Papers Selection Committee, 2011 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
  • Reviewer, 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: EMNLP 2010.
  • Program Committee, 10th Conference on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms, TAG+ 10. Yale University, June 10-12, 2010.
  • Program Committee, ACL 2010 Workshop on Applications of Tree Automata in Natural Language Processing. July 16, 2010. Uppsala, Sweden.
  • Reviewer, EMNLP 2009, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Aug 6-7 2009, Singapore.
  • Program Committee, MT Summit XII 2009. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, August 26-30, 2009.
  • Program Committee, NAACL HLT 2009 Workshop on Semi-supervised Learning for Natural Language Processing
  • Reviewer, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-HLT 2008.
  • Reviewer, 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics: COLING 2008.
  • Program Committee, Conference on Natural Language Learning: CoNLL 2008.
  • Reviewer, International Conference on Machine Learning: 25th Meeting, ICML 2008.
  • Program Committee, 21st Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Canadian AI 2008.
  • For older activities, see my CV ...
  
  
• Conference organization:
  • Member of the organizing Committee for the 1st CAIAC/Precarn Canadian Intelligent Systems Challenge, 2008-2009. (an annual competition among Canadian university, college and high school students).
  • Local Preparation and Student Volunteer Coordinator: HLT/EMNLP 2005, October 6-8, 2005.
  • Local co-organizer (with Chung-hye Han): TAG+7: 7th Int'l Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar & Related Formalisms, 20-22 May, 2004.

SFU

• MITACS College of Reviewers for the ACCELERATE program: April 2009- April 2010
• Search committee for Associate Vice-President of Research for SFU.
• Capital Resources Committee
  • Aug 2007-Sep 2008: CRC member: chair of CS web sub-committee
  • Aug 2006-Sep 2007: CRC member: chair of CS web sub-committee
  • Oct 2005-Apr 2006: CS web committee.
  • June 2004-Aug 2005: CS web sub-committee.
• PIMS/CS Distinguished Lecture Series
  • Aug 2004-May 2005: Along with Valentine Kabanets, organized this lecture series.
• Graduate Program Committee
  • Sept 2003-May 2004: Organizer of the weekly Advanced Graduate Seminar for Fall 2003 and Spring 2004.
  • Sept 2010-May 2012: GPC member
• Tenure and Promotion Committee
  • Sept 2003-May 2004
• Undergraduate Program Committee
  • Sept 2002-Aug 2003: Member of the subcommittee on undergraduate recruiting efforts.