Current activities
Co-organiser of TREC Blog Track, 2006 - (with Craig Macdonald and Ian Soboroff).
Member of the Editorial Board for Information and Processing Management, 2005 -
Member of the EPSRC College, 2006 -
Member of the ESSIR European Summer School in Information Retrieval Steering Committee, 2007 -
BCS IRSG Committee Member, Conference Coordinator, 2004-.
General chair of ECIR 2008, 30th European Conference on Information Retrieval, Glasgow, 30th March - 3rd April 2008.
Guest co-editor of the Information Retrieval Journal Special Issue on Teaching and Learning of Information Retrieval, 2008.
Member of the International Advisory Committee for Fire: Forum For Information Retrieval Evaluation, 2007-
Member of the Programme Committee for 31th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), Singapore, 24-28 July 2008.
Member of the Programme Committee for WWW 2008- 17th International World Wide Web Conference Annual Conference, Search Track, Beijing, China, April 21-25, 2008.
Member of the Programme Committee for CORIA 2008- 5th edition de la COnference en Recherche d'Information et Applications, Tregastel, France, March 12-14, 2008.
Member of the Programme Committee for VLDB 2008- 34th International Conference on Very Large Databases , Infrastructure for Information Systems, Auckland, New Zealand, August 25-28, 2008.
Member of the Program Committee of the special Track on Information Access and Retrieval of the 23rd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2008), Ceara, Brazil, March 16 - 20, 2008
Member of the Programme Committee for EVIA 2008: International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access, NTCIR-7 Workshop, Tokyo, Japan, 2008.
Invited Speaker at FTHK 2008: Finding the Hidden Knowledge in Text Workshop Glasgow, February 21-22, 2008.
Past activities
2007
General chair of ESSIR 2007, 6th European Summer School in Information Retrieval, Glasgow, 27-31 August 2007.
Guest co-editor of the Journal of Digital Information Management (JDIM) Special Issue on Web Information Retrieval, 2007.
Member of the Programme Committee for FDIA 2007: BCS IRSG Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access 2007, In conjunction with ESSIR 2007, Glasgow, Scotland, 28-29 August 2007.
Member of the 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 workshops selection 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 ICTIR 2007: International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval , Budapest, Hungary, 18-20 October, 2007.
Member of the Programme Committee for CIR'07: 2nd International Workshop on Context-Based Information Retrieval, Roskilde University, Copenhagen, Denmark, 20-21 August, 2007.
Member of the Programme Committee for IRGM 2007: Information Retrieval and Applications of Graphical Models, SIGIR 2007 Workshop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 27 July, 2007.
Member of the Programme Committee for LSDS-IR 2007: Large Scale Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2007 Workshop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 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 ECIR 2007- 29th European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, 2-5 April 2007, Rome, Italy.
Co-chair of the 1st International Workshop on Teaching and Learning of Information Retrieval (TLIR'07), London, UK, 10 January, 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 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 WWW 2007- 16th International World Wide Web Conference Annual Conference, Search Track, Banff, Alberta, May 08-12, 2007.
Member of the Programme Committee for BNCOD Workshop on Web and Information Management (WEBIM), Glasgow, Scotland, 2-3 July, 2007.
Member of the Programme Committee for EVIA 2007: International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access, NTCIR-6 Workshop, Tokyo, Japan, 15 May, 2007.
2006
Co-organiser of TREC Blog Track 2006 (with Maarten de Rijke, Craig Macdonald, Gilad Mishne and Ian Soboroff).
Member of the Programme Committee for CIKM 2006: 15th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Arlington, VA, 6-11 November, 2006.
Member of the Programme Committee for ECIR 2006- 28th European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, Imperial College, London, 10-12 April 2006.
Member of the Programme Committee for the Third COnference en Recherche d'Information et Applications (CORIA'06), March 2006, Lyon, France.
Member of the Programme Committee for NAACL-HLT 2006- Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, New York, June 4-9, 2006.
Member of the Programme Committee for the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), Seattle, WA, August 6-11, 2006.
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