Current Activities
- ACM SIGIR Vice Chair.
- Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society, 2005 -
- Member of ACM, 2006 -
- Member of the EPSRC College, 2003 -
- Member of the Editorial Board for Information & Processing Management, 2004 -
- Member of the Editorial Board for ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 2007 -
- Member of the Editorial Board for Journal of Information Retrieval, 2008 -
- Member of the Editorial Review Board for International Journal of Digital Library Systems (IJDLS), 2010-
- General co-chair for 14th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, University of Glasgow, September 2010 (with Joemon Jose).
- Workshop chair for 19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2010)i, Toronto, 25-29 October 2010.
- Tutorial co-chair for 2010 IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conferences, 31 August - 3 September 2010, Toronro, Canada (with Sourav Saha Bhowmick).
- Member of the Programme Committee for Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) (Research Track), July 25-28 in Washington, DC, USA.
- Member of the Programme Committee for 33rd ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Developme nt in Information Retrieval, 19-23 July 2010, Geneva, Switzerland.
- Member of the Programme Committee for the Third International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA 2010), A Satellite Workshop of NTCIR-8, Tokyo, Japan, 15 December 2010.
- Member of the Programme Committee for the Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation (CLEF 2010), 20-23 September 2010, Padua, Italy.
Past Activities (2010)
- Member of the Programme Committee for International Academic Research Conference, ACM-BCS Visions of Computer Science 2010, 13-16 April 2010, The University of Edinburgh, UK.
- Member of the Programme Committee for World Wide Web (WWW) conference (Search Track), Raleig h, NC, USA, 26-30 April, 2010.
- Member of the Programme Committee for (ECIR 2010) 32th Eu ropean Conference on Information Retrieval Research, 28-31 March, Milton Keynes, UK.
- Member of the Programme Committee for (WSDM 2010) Third ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 3-6 February 2010 - New York City, USA.
Past Activities (2009)
- Structure/XML Retrieval. Lecture at the 7th European Summer School in Information Retrieval, ESSIR2009, University of Padua, Italy, August 31 - September 4, 2009.
- Member of the panel on Evaluation in Information Retrieval organized by TrebleCLEF, as part of ESSIR 2009, University of Padua, Italy, 2 September 2009.
- Member of the Programme Committee for 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009), Washington DC, USA, 25-29 October 2009.
- Member of the Programme Committee for the Doctoral Consortium at the 32nd ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 19-23 July, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- Member of the Programme Committee for 2nd International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR), Cambridge, UK, 10-11 September 2009.
- Member of the Programme Committee for 16th String Pro cessing and Information Retrieval Symposium, Saariselkä, Finland, 25–27 August 2009.
- Member of the Programme Committee for 3rd Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA), University of Padua, Italy, September 1 , 2009.
- Member of the Programme Committee for The Fifth Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS 2009), October 21-23, 2009, Hokkaido Universi ty, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
- Member of the Programme Committee for 13th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, Corfu, Greece, 27 September - 2 October, 2009.
- Member of the Programme Committee for the Tutorial Selection at the 32nd ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 19-23 July, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- Mentoring Chair for the 32nd ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 19-23 July, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- Member of the Programme Committee for Conférence en Recherche d'Information et Applications, VVF Presqu'ile de Giens, France, 5-7 May 2009.
- Vice Chair for the XML and Web Data track at the World Wide Web (WWW) conference, Madrid, Spain, 20-24 April 2009.
- Member of the Programme Committee for (ECIR 2009) 31th Eu ropean Conference on Information Retrieval Research, 6-9 April 2009, Toulouse, France.
- Speaker at the Computer Science 2008: student research conference, on Digital Divide, Cambridge, 15-17 December, 2008 (with Matt Jones).
- General co-chair for IIiX 2008, Second Symposium on Information Interaction in Context, London, October 2008 (with Tassos Tombros).
- Area Editor of the Encyclopedia of Database Systems, Springer, to appear. Ling Liu and M. Tamer Ozsu, editors. Area "Structured text retrieval".
- PR for 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Napa Valley Marriott Hotel & Spa: Napa Valley, California 26-30 October, 2008.
- Member of the Programme Committee for the Second International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA 2008), A Satellite Workshop of NTCIR-7, Tokyo, Japan, 16 December 2008.
- Member of the Programme Committee for Best Papers for ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 20-24 July 2008, Singapore.
- Member of the Programme Committee for the Second International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management, Napoli, Italy, October 2008.
- Co-chair for the ACM SIGIR 2008 Workshop on Aggregated Search, Singapore, 24 July 2008 (with Vanessa Murdock).
- Member of the Programme Committee for SIGIR 2008 Workshop on Focused Retrieval (Question Answering, Passage Retrieval, Element Retrieval), Singapore, 24 July 2008.
- Member of the Programme Committee ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 20-24 July 2008, Singapore.
- Member of the Programme Committee for 13th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, 24-27 June 2008, London, UK.
- Member of the Programme Committee for Doctoral Consortium for 13th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, 24-27 June 2008, London, UK.
- Member of the Programme Committee for ECIR'08 Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval, Glasgow, 30 March 2008.
- Accessing XML content - An information retrieval perspective. Winter School 2008 on Information technology on the Web, Champery, January 28th - February 1st, 2008.
- Member of the Programme Committee for the 5th Conference en Recherche d'Information et Applications (CORIA'08), Tregastel, Cotes d'Armor, France, 12-14 March 2008.
- Member of the Programme Committee for (ECIR 2008) 30th European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, 30th March - 3rd April 2008, Glasgow, Scotland.
- Area Chair on "Experimentation" at the 4th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS 2008), Harbin, China, 16-18 January 2008.
Past Activities (2008)
Past Activities (2007)
- Co-organisor of INEX: Evaluation initiative for XML retrieval, 2002 - 2007 (with Norbert Fuhr, and Andrew Trotman).
- XML Retrieval: IR and DB Challenges. Tutorial in conjunction to the 16 ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Lisboa, Portugal, November 2007 (with Sihem Amer-Yahia, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, and Mariano P. Consens).
- XML Retrieval: DB/IR in Theory, Web in practice. Tutorial at the 33rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Vienna, Austria, 23-28 September 23-28, 2007 (with Sihem Amer-Yahia, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, and Mariano P. Consens).
- ACM SIGIR Information Director, 2005 - 2007.
- Structure/XML retrieval. Lecture at the 6th European Summer School in Information Retrieval, ESSIR2007, Glasgow, 27-31 August 2007.
- XML Retrieval: Integrated IR-DB Challenges and Solutions, Tutorial at the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval, Amsterdam, 2007 (with Sihem Amer-Yahia, Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Mariano Consens).
- Visiting Professor at the Informatics Research Institute, University of Salford, 2006-2007.
- Member of the Programme Committee for SIGIR 2007 Workshop on Focused Retrieval (Question Answering, Passage Retrieval, Element Retrieval), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 27 July 2007.
- Member of the Programme Committee for BCS IRSG Symposium: Future Directions in Information Access 2007, Glasgow, Scotland, 28-29 August 2007.
- Member of the Programme Committee for Context-based Information retrieval workshop (CIR 2007), Roskilde, Denmark, August 20-21, 2007
- Member of the Programme Committee for SUM 2007 - Scalable Uncertainty Management, Washington DC Area, USA, October 10-12, 2007.
- Member of the Programme Committee for 14th Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, Santiago, Chile, 29-31 October, 2006.
- Member of the Programme Committee for 11th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2007), Budapest, Hungary, 16-21 September, 2006.
- Member of the Senior Programme Committee for 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 23-27 July 2007.
- Member of the Programme Committee for the Fourth COnference en Recherche d'Information et Applications (CORIA'07), Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France, 28-30 March 2007.
- Member of the Programme Committee for RIAO 2007 - 8th Conference - Large-Scale Semantic Access to Content (Text, Image, Video and Sound), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 30 May - 1June, 2007.
- Member of the Programme Committee for (ECIR 2007) 29th European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, 2-5 April 2007, Rome, Italy.
- Member of the Programme Committee for (NAACL-HLT 2007) Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Rochester, NY, April 22-27, 2007.
- Member of the Programme Committee for 6th NTCIR Workshop Pre-Meeting Workshop on Information Access Evaluation, Tokyo, Japan, 15 May 2007.
Past Activities (2006)
- Member of London Knowledge Management Network, 2000 - 2006.
- Member of the Programme Committee for 15th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Arlington, VA, 6-11 November, 2006.
- XML Information Retrieval, Tutorial at the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval, Seattle 2006 (with Ricardo Baeza-Yates).
- Member of the Programme Committee for IIiX - First Symposium on Information Interaction in Context, Copenhagen, Denmark, 18-20 October, 2006.
- Member of the Programme Committee for SIGIR 2006 Workshop on XML Element Retrieval Methodology, Seattle, USA, August 2006.
- Member of the Programme Committee for Third Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS 2006), Singapore, 16-18 October 2006.
- Member of the Programme Committee for JCDL 2006 Workshop on Digital Libraries in the Context of Users' Broader Activities, June 11-15, 2006, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
- Member of the Programme Committee for 13th Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, Glasgow, UK, 11-13 October, 2006.
- Member of the Programme Committee for 10th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2006), Alicante, Spain, 17-22 September, 2006.
- Workshops co-chair for 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), Seattle, WA, August 6-11, 2006 (with Peter Anick).
- Programme chair for ECIR'06, 28th European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, Imperial College, London, 10-12 April 2006.
- Member of the Programme Commitee for 3rd IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS'06), Westminster University, London, United Kingdom, 10-12 July 2006.
- Visiting Professor, University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain, March 2006.
- Member of the Programme Committee for 7th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems, Milano, Italy, 7 - 10 June, 2006.
- Invited talk, XML Retrieval and Evaluation in INEX, University of Granada, 20 February 2006.
- Seminar on New Trends on Intelligent Systems and Soft Computing, PhD Program Design, Analysis and Applications of Intelligent Systems, XML retrieval: A content-oriented perspective, University of Granada, 16-17 February 2006.
- Visiting Researcher, Microsoft Research Lab, Cambridge, October 2005.
- Member of the Programme Committee for the EDBT International Workshop on Database Technologies for Handling XML Information on the Web (DataX 06), March 26, 2006, Munich, Germany.
- Member of the Programme Committee for the 1st International Conference on Scalable Information Systems (INFOSCALE 2006), Hong Kong, May 30- June 1, 2006.
- Member of the Programme Committee for the Third COnference en Recherche d'Information et Applications (CORIA'06), March 2006, Lyon, France.
- Member of EPSRC network, Women@CL promoting women in computing, 2003-2006.
- Member of the Programme Committee for the Multi-dimensional Markup in Natural Language Processing (MDMNLP-2006), Trento, Italy, April 4, 2006.
Past Activities (2005)
- Accessing XML Content: From DB and IR Perspectives, Tutorial at the 14th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Bremen, Germany, 31 October - 5 November, 2005 (with Sihem Amer-Yahia)
- Member of the Programme Committee for 21th ACM SAC 2006 Track on Information Access and Retrieval, Dijon, France, April 23 -27, 2006.
- Structure/XML retrieval. Lecture at the 5th European Summer School in Information Retrieval, ESSIR 2005, Dublin, 5-9 September 2005.
- Co-organiser of the workshop on INEX 2005 Workshop on Element Retrieval Methodology, to be held as part of the Information Retrieval research festival at the University of Glasgow, 30 July 2005 (with Norbert Fuhr and Andrew Trotman).
- Member of the Programme Committee for 14th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Bremen, Germany, 31 October - 5 November, 2005.
- Member of the Programme Committee for the Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE 2005), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2-4 November 2005.
- Reviewer for EUSFLAT Special Session on Intelligent Text and Web: Mining and Retrieval Issues, Barcelona, Spain, 7-9 September 2005.
- Member of the Programme Committee for the 6th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, London, UK, 11 - 15 September 2005.
- Member of the Programme Committee for the Ninth European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2005), Vienna, Austria, 18-23 September 2005.
- Poster co-chair for the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Salvador, Brazil, 15-19 August, 2005 (with Diane Kelly and Gonzalo Navarro).
- Member of the Programme Committee for the IJCAI Workshop on Multiagent Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems, 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 30 July - 5 August 2005.
- Member of the Programme Committee for the First International Workshop on Integrating Data Mining, Database and Information Retrieval (IDDI-05), to be held at the 16th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2005), Copenhagen, Denmark, 22-26 August 2005.
- Member of the programme committee for the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Salvador, Brazil, 15-19 August, 2005.
- Member of the workshops selection committee for the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Salvador, Brazil, 15-19 August, 2005.
- XML retrieval and evaluation: the INEX experience, Seminar at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, 16 December 2005.
- Member of the Programme Committee for the Workshop on Context and Information Retrieval, to be held at CONTEXT'05, the Fifth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on User Modeling and Using Context, 5-8 July 2005, Paris, France.
- Member of the Programme Committee for la Seconde COnference en Recherche d'Information et Applications (CORIA'05), 9-11 March 2005, Grenoble, France.
- XML retrieval and evaluation: Where are we?. Invited Talk at the 5th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR'5), Utrecht, The Netherlands, 10-11 January 2005.
- Member of the Programme Committee for ECIR'05, 27th European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 21-23 March 2005.
- Member of the Programme Committee for 20th ACM SAC 2005 Track on Information Access and Retrieval, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 13-17 March, 2005.
- XML retrieval and evaluation: the INEX experience, Seminar at the Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, 17 November 2005.
Past Activities (2004)
- Co-organiser of the London 2004 Hopper Colloquium, a regional event of the the women@CL project, 20 December 2004, Queen Mary University of London (with Ursula Martin).
- Member of the Programme Committee for 13th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Washington D.C., USA, 8-13 November 2004.
- Visiting Professor at LIP6, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6, Paris, France, 2004.
- Member of the Programme Committee for EUROFUSE Workshop on Data and Knowledge Engineering, Warszawa, Poland, September 22-25, 2004
- Member of the Programme Committee for Eighth European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2004), University of Bath, UK, September 12- 17, 2004.
- Member of the Programme Commitee for ACM SIGIR Workshop on Formal/Mathemetical Methods for Information Retrieval (MF/IR), Sheffield, 29 July 2004.
- Member of the Programme Commitee for ACM SIGIR Workshop on Semantic Web, Sheffield, 29 July 2004.
- Member of the Programme Commitee for ACM SIGIR Workshop on XML and Information Retrieval, Sheffield, 29 July 2004.
- INEX: Evaluating content-oriented XML retrieval. Invited Talk, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Scotland, 22 March 2004.
- Workshops Chair for 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 25 - 29 July 2004, Sheffield, UK.
- Evaluating XML retrieval: The INEX initiative. Invited Talk, School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck University of London, England, 16 March 2004.
- XML retrieval: from modelling to evaluation. Invited Talk at the Premiere COnference en Recherche d'Information et Applications (CORIA'O4), 10-12 March 2004, Toulouse, France.
- Member of the Programme Committee for 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 25 - 29 July 2004, Sheffield, UK.
- Member of the Programme Commitee for FQAS, 6th International Conference On Flexible Query Answering Systems, Lyon, France, 2004.
- Member of the Programme Committee for la Premiere COnference en Recherche d'Information et Applications (CORIA'O4), 10-12 March 2004, Toulouse, France.
- Evaluating content-oriented XML retrieval: The INEX initiative. Invited Talk, 12 February 2004, University of Rouen, France.
- Member of the Programme Committee for ECIR'04, 26th European Colloquium on Information Retrieval Research, 5-7 April 2004, University of Sunderland, UK.
Past Activities (2003)
- Member of the Programme Committee for 12th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2-8 November 2003, New Orleans, USA.
- Co-organisor of ACM SIGIR Workshop on Formal/Mathemetical Methods for Information Retrieval (MF/IR 2003), Toronto, Canada, 1 August 2003 (with Dominich Sandor and Keith van Rijsbergen).
- Member of the Programme Commitee for ACM SIGIR Workshop on Semantic Web, Toronto, Canada, 1 August 2003.
- Member of the Programme Commitee for ACM SIGIR Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, Toronto, Canada, 1 August 2003.
- Adjunt Lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering and Computing, at the University of Technology, Jamaica, 2003 - 2006.
- Member of the Programme Committee for 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 28 July - 1 August 2003, Toronto, Canada.
- Member of the Programme Committee for ECIR'03, 25th European Colloquium on Information Retrieval Research, 14-18 April2003, Pisa, Italy.
Past Activities (2002)
- Member of the Programme Commitee for ACM SIGIR Workshop on XML and Information Retrieval, Tampere, Finland, 15 August 2002.
- Co-organisor of ACM SIGIR Workshop on Formal/Mathemetical Methods for Information Retrieval (MF/IR 2002), Tampere, Finland, 15 August 2002 (with Dominich Sandor and Keith van Rijsbergen) .
- Seeking Information: Methods from Information Retrieval and Artificial Intelligence, Tutorial at ECAI 2002, Lyon, France, 21-26 July 2002 (with A. Cawsey and T. Roelleke).
- Member of the Programme Committee for Fifth International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS 2002), Copenhagen, Denmark, October 27 - 29, 2002.
- Member of the Programme Committee for Eleventh International Conference on Knowledge and Data Management, (CIKM 2002), November 4-9, McLean, Virginia, USA, 2002.
- Member of the Programme Committee for EUROFUSE Workshop on Information Systems, Villa Monastero, Varenna, Italy, September 23-25, 2002.
- Co-organisor of the Evaluation initiative for XML document retrieval, Schloss Dagstuhl, 9-11 December 2002 (with Norbert Fuhr).
- Member of the Programme Committee for 25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), Tampere, Finland, 11-15 August 2002.
- Member of the Programme Committee for ECIR'02, 24th European Colloquium on Information Retrieval Research, Glasgow, Scotland, 25-27 March 2002.
- Reviewer for SAC'02 - IARS Track, ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Special Track on Information Access and Retrieval Systems, Madrid, Spain, 10-14 March 2002.
Past Activities (2001)
- Honorary lecturer, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, 1999-2001.
- Co-organisor of ACM SIGIR Workshop on Formal/Mathemetical Methods for Information Retrieval (MF/IR 2001), New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A., September 13, 2001 (with Dominich Sandor and Keith van Rijsbergen). Attempt schedule
- Co-organiser of the Third Workshop on Logical and Uncertainty Models for Information Systems (LUMIS 2001), as part of DEXA 2001, Munich, Germany, September 3-7, 2001 (with F. Crestani and Jian-Yun Nie).
- Member of the Programme Committee for Tenth International Conference on Knowledge and Data Engineering, (CIKM 2001), November 5-10, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2001.
- Co-organiser of Text Retrieval 2001: Retrieval from Networked Sources - New Tools, current trends, classic solutions for exploiting the Internet and Intranets, BT Labs, Adastral Park, 21 February 2001.
- Member of the Programme Committee for European Colloquium on Information Retrieval Research, Darmstadt, Germany, 4-6 April 2001.
- Member of the Programme Committee for 24th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), New Orleans, 7-12 September 2001.
Past Activities (2000)
- Member of the IEE Professional Group Committee A4 (Artificial Intelligence), 1998-2000
- Lecture on Information Retrieval and Logics at the Third European Summer School in Information Retrieval, 11-15 September, Varenna, Lago di Como (with F. Crestani).
- Co-organiser of the Second Workshop on Logical and Uncertainty Models for Information Systems (LUMIS 2000), as part of DEXA 2000, Greenwich, England, UK, 4-8 September 2000 (with P. Bruza and F. Crestani).
- Co-organiser of the Workshop on Evaluation of Information Management Systems, Queen Mary & Westfield College, London, UK, 15 September 2000 (with Jane Reid).
- Member of the Programme Committee for Ninth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Washington, DC, USA, November 6-11, 2000.
- Seeking Information: Methods from Information Retrieval and Artificial Intelligence, Tutorial at ECAI 2000, Berlin, Germany, 20-21 August 2000 (with D. Fensel).
- Co-organisor of ACM SIGIR Workshop on Formal/Mathemetical Methods for Information Retrieval, Athens, Greece, 27-28 August (with Dominich Sandor and Keith van Rijsbergen).
- Member of the Programme Committee for Fourth International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS 2000), Warsaw, Poland, 25-27 October, 2000.
- Tier-reviewer for 23rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), Athens, Greece, 27-28 August.
- Member of the Programme Committee for The Challenge of Image Retrieval (CIR 2000) Brighton, UK, 4-5 May 2000.
- Vice-chair of the BCS IRSG 1999- 2000
Past Activities (1999)
- Member of the BCS IRSG committee with responsibilities for overseeing the organisation of one day meetings, 1998-1999
- Co-organiser of Searching information: Information retrieval and artificial intelligence approaches, IEE event, Glasgow, UK, 11-12 November 1999 (with A. Cawsey and C.J. van Rijsbergen).
- Member of the task force for organising the "Text Retrieval" conference, London, UK, October 1999
- Co-editor of "Improving formal models and usability: Research in Information Retrieval at Glasgow University", Information Retrieval, Special Issue, 1999 (with M. Dunlop)
- Member of the Program Commitee of the IJCAI-99 Workshop on Intelligent Information Integration, 31 July 1999, Stockholm.
- Member of the Program Committee of the 8th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Kansas City, USA, November 1999
- Co-organiser of the First Workshop on Logical and Uncertainty Models for Information Systems (LUMIS99), as part of ECSQARU99, London, England, 5 July 1999 (with Fabio Crestani)
- Member of the Programme Committee of the 21st Annual Colloquium on Information Retrieval, Glasgow, UK, April 1999
Past Activities (1998)
- Dortmund Technical Manager of the EuroSearch and EuroGatherer projects, 1998
- Member of the working group Agent-Based Data and Knowledge Management of the AgentLink (Europe's Network of Excellence for Agent-Based Computing).
- Member of the BCS IRSG committee with responsibilities for overseeing the organisation of one day meetings
Past Activities (1996)
- The use of Logic in Information Retrieval Modelling, Tutorial at SIGIR 96, Zurich, Switzerland, 18 August 1996 (with Peter Bruza)
- Co-organiser of the Second workshop on Information Retrieval, Logic and Uncertainty (WIRUL96), Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, 12 July 1996 (with Fabio Crestani)
Past Activities (1995)
- Co-organiser of the First workshop on Information Retrieval, Logic and Uncertainty, held during the Research Festival at the Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, 16 September 1995
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