Mounia Lalmas | activities

Current Activities

• Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society, 2005 -
• Member of ACM, 2006 -
• Member of the Editorial Board for Information & Processing Management, 2004 -
• Member of the Editorial Board for Journal of Information Retrieval, 2008 -
• Member of the Editorial Board for International Journal on Digital Libraries, 2011 -
• Member of the Editorial Board for The Computer Journal, 2013 -
• Member of the Editorial Review Board for International Journal of Digital Library Systems (IJDLS), 2010-
• Keynote "To be or not be engaged: What is the question (to ask)?" at 18th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB2013), 19-21 June 2013, University of Salford, MediaCityUK.
• Doctoral Consortium co-chair for 36th ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Dublin, Ireland, 28 July-1 August, 2013 (with G. Hui Yang & J. Salvador Arguello).
• Member of the Programme Committee for 4th International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, 29 September - 2 October 2013, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Workshop co-chair of International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL), Valletta, Malta, September 22-26, 2013 (with László Kovács).
• Member of the Programme Committee for The Ninth Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2013), December 09-11, 2013, Singapore.
• Member of the Programme Committee for Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) Conference, 1-5 September 2013, Hangzhou, China.
• Member of the Programme Committee for International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL), Valletta, Malta, September 22-26, 2013.
• Member of the Programme Committee for IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2013 (IEEE BigData 2013), 6-9 October, Silicon Valley, USA.
• Member of the Programme Committee for Future Directions in Information Access Symposium (FDIA 2013), 2-6 September 2013, Granada, Spain.
• Member of the Programme Committee for 19th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Chicago, USA, August 11-14, 2013.
• Member of the Programme Committee for 10th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems, 8th-20th September 2013, Granada, Spain.
• Tutorial on Measuring User Engagement, International World-Wide Web Conference (WWW), 13-17 May 2013, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (with H. O'Brien & E. Yom-Tov) -- Slides under construction.

Past Activities (2013)

• Invited seminars "Measuring Web User Engagement: a melting pot of web analytics, focus attention, positive affect, user interest, saliency, mouse movement and online multitasking" at Royal Holloway University (12 Februray 2013), University of Duisburg-Essen (5 April 2013).
• Area Chair "Web IR and Social Media Search" for the 36th ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Dublin, Ireland, 28 July-1 August, 2013.
• Speaker "Measuring Web User Engagement: a melting pot of web analytics, focus attention, positive affect, user interest, saliency, mouse movement and online multitasking" at Women in Science and Engineering Workshop, Edinburgh, 28 March 2013.
• Member of the Programme Committee for Behavioral Analysis and Personalization track at World Wide Web (WWW) conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 13-17, 2013.
• Member of the Programme Committee for Open research Areas in Information Retrieval (OAIR)10th International Conference in the RIAO series, 22-24 May 2013, Lisbon, Portugal.

Past Activities (2012)

• Member of the Senior Programme Committee for Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), Moscow, Russia, 24-27 March 2013.
• Member of the Programme Committee for 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2012), 8-15 December 2012, Mumbai, India.
• "User Engagement in the Digital World", Keynote at International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL, former ECDL), Paphos, Cyprus on 23-27 September 2012.
• Member of the Workshop Programme Committee for 35th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) , Moscow, Russia, 24-27 March 2013.
• Member of the Programme Committee for 2012 Human-Computer Information Retrieval Symposium (HCIR 2012), 4-5 October 2012 at IBM Research in Cambridge, MA.
• Member of the Programme Committee for 6th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2013), 4-8 February 2013, Rome Italy.
• Member of the Programme Committee for The 2nd European Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (euroHCIR 2012), Nijmegen, the Netherlands - 24-25th August 2012 (at IIiX2012).
• Member of the Programme Committee for First International Workshop on Information and Knowledge Management for Developing Regions, Maui, Hawaii, November 2, 2012 (in conjunction with CIKM 2012).
• Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair for 35th ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Portland, Oregon, USA, 12-16 August 2012 (with Maarten to Rijke).
• Member of the Senior Programme Committee for 21th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 29 October - 2 November, 2012, Maui, Hawaii.
• Member of the Poster Programme Committee for 21th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 29 October - 2 November, 2012, Maui, Hawaii.
• Member of the Programme Committee for 19th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE), Cartagena, Columbia, 21-25 October 2012.
• Member of the Editorial Board for ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 2007 - 2011.
• Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair for ACM/IE EE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), June 10-14, 2012, Washington DC, USA (with Luanne Freund).
• Member of the Programme Committee for Fourth Information Interaction in Context Symposium (IIiX), Nijmegen, the Netherlands, August 21-24, 2012.
• Area Chair "Users and Interactive IR" for the 35th ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Portland, Oregon, USA August 12–16, 2012.
• User Engagement: A Scientific Challenge, Seminar at UNED, Madrid, Spain, 12 April 2012.
• Student Mentoring Chair for 34th Europea n Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) , Barcelona, Spain, 1-5 April 2012.
• Session, Focus, and Engagement, Opening keynnote at ECIR 2012 Workshop on Information Retrieval Over Query Sessions, 1 April 2012, Barcelona, Spain.
• Member of the Programme Committee for Task Based and Aggregated Search Workshop, Half-Day Workshop at ECIR 2012, 1 April 2012, Barcelona, Spain.
• User Engagement: A Scientific Challenge, Seminars at the Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano, 21 March 2012.
• User Engagement: A Scientific Challenge, University of Texas in Austin iSchool Seminar series, 21 February 2012.
• Member of the Programme Committee for the RuSSIR 2012 Summer School, August 6-10, 2012, Yaroslavi, Russia.
• Member of the Programme Committee for World Wide Web Conference (Web search track), 16-20 April, 2012, Lyon, France.
• Member of the Programme Committee for Information Retrieval Over Query Sessions, Workshop at ECIR 2012, 1 April 2012, Barcelona, Spain.
• Member of the Programme Committee for Community Question Answering on the Web, Workshop at the Twenty-first International WWW Conference (WWW 2012), April 16, 2012, Lyon, France.

Past Activities (2011)

• Member of the Senior Programme Committee for Fifth ACM International Conferenc e on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), Seattle, Washington February 9-12, 2012.
• Programme co-Chair for Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation (CLEF 2011), 19-22 September 2011, Amsterdam (with Jaana Kekäläinen).
• Member of the Senior Programme Committee for a 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 24th-28th October 2011.
• Lectures (Introduction to IR and IR Models) at IR Summer School in Bangalore, 20-25 June, Bangalore, India.
• Leuven ICT (LICT) center Distinguished Lecture Program, Lecture on "Aggregation for Searching Complex Information Spaces", 10th May 2011.
• Member of the Programme Committee for 3rd Conference on on Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2011), 12-14 Septemb er 2011, Bertinoro, Italy.
• Member of the Programme Committee for 18th String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE 2011), 17-21 Octob er 2011, Pisa, Italy.
• Member of the Tutorial Programme Committee for 18th String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE 2011), 17 -21 October 2011, Pisa, Italy.
• Area Chair "IR and Structured Data" for 34th ACM SIGIR Conf erence on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Beijing, China, 24-28 July 2011.
• Member of the Doctoral Consortium Programme Committee for 34 th ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Beijing, China, 24-28 July 2011.
• Programme co-chair for First International Workshop on Social Media Engagement (SoME 2011), WWW 2011 Workshop, March 28 or 29, 2011, Hyderabad, India (with Alejandro Jaimes and Yana Volkovich).
• Member of the Programme Committee for the Workshops for 34th ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Beijing, China, 24-28 July 2011.
• Member of the Programme Committee for the WEB OF DATA - Joint EDBT/RuSSIR 2011 Summer School, August 15-19, 2011, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
• Member of the Programme Committee for the WSDM Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Search and Data Mining (CSDM 2011), 9-12 February 2011, Hong Kong.
• Member of the Programme Committee for the WSDM Workshop on User Modeling for Web Applications, 9-12 February 2011, Hong Kong.
• Member of the Programme Committee for (ECIR 2011) 33th European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, 19-21 April 2011.

Past Activities (2010)

• Member of the EPSRC College, 2003 - 2010
• Workshop chair for 19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Manageme nt (CIKM 2010), Toronto, 25-29 October 2010.
• Member of the Senior Programme Committee for The Fourth ACM International Conferenc e on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), Hong Kong, 2011.
• Member of the panel on "The 4 Ladies of Experimental Evaluation" at the Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation,20-23 September 2010, Padua.
• General co-chair for 14th European Conference on Re search and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, University of Glasgow, September 2 010 (with Joemon Jose).
• XML Retrieval. Course at the 4th Russian Summer School in Information Retrieval, September 13-18, 2010, Voronezh, Russia.
• Member of the Programme Committee for 6th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference（AIRS), 1-3 December 2010, Taipei, Taiwan.
• From federated to aggregated search. Tutorial at 33rd ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 19-23 July 2010, Geneva, Switzerland (with Fernando Diaz and Milad Shokouhi).
• Member of the Programme Committee for Fourth Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR), 22 August 2010, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
• Aggregation for searching complex information spaces. Keynote talk at 5th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems IS’10, 7-9 July 2010, London, UK.
• ACM SIGIR Vice Chair, 2007 - 2010
• Building for interaction and measuring for engagement. Seminar at Yahoo! Research Barcelona, 10 June 2010.
• Understanding aggregated search. Seminar at the University of Swansea, 4 May 2010.
• Member of the Programme Committee for the SIGIR Workshop on Accessible Search Systems, 23 July 2010, Geneva, Switzerland.
• Member of the Programme Committee for the SIGIR Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Search Evaluation, 23 July 2010, Geneva, Switzerland.
• Member of the Programme Committee for the Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation (CLEF 2010), 20-23 September 2010, Padua, Italy.
• Member of the Programme Committee for Information Interaction in Context conference (IIiX) Symposium, 18-22 August 2010, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
• Member of the Programme Committee for Conference o n Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) (Research Track), July 25-28 in Washington, DC, USA.
• 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.
• Tutorial co-chair for 2010 IEEE / WIC / ACM International Confere nces, 31 August - 3 September 2010, Toronro, Canada (with Sourav Saha Bhowmick).
• 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 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.

Past Activities (2008)

• 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 (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

Mounia Lalmas
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