Professional service (Program committies, Editorial boards)

Peer review for journals / book series / research proposals

  • ACM Transactions on Information Systems;
  • Information Processing & Management;
  • Speech Communication;
  • Information Retrieval;
  • ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing;
  • Journal of Natural Language Engineering;
  • Computer Vision and Image Understanding;
  • Human Language Technologies, Morgan and Claypool
  • ERC Ideas
  • EU ERANET
  • NWO Vrije competitie, NWO vernieuwingsimpuls (VENI, VIDI)

Special issue guest editor

Programme committees

2016

  • ACM SIGIR 2016 (area chair)
  • ACM MM 2016 (travel grant chair)

2014

  • ACM SIGIR 2015 (area chair)
  • WWW 2015

2014

  • CLEF labs 2014 (progamme chair)
  • Measuring Behavior 2014 (session chair smart reasoning systems)

2013

  • ECIR 2013
  • ICME 2013
  • ACM Multimedia 2013
  • ACM SIGIR 2013 (area chair)
  • EU Erasmus summer school on Information Foraging 2013 (scientific coordinator)

2012

  • ACM SIGIR 2012 (area chair)
  • IIiX 2012 (general co-chair)
  • ECIR 2012
  • ACM ICMR 2012
  • EU Erasmus summer school on Information Foraging 2012 (scientific coordinator)

2011

  • ACM SIGIR 2011 (area chair)
  • ECIR 2011 (poster chair)
  • USEWOD2011 – 1st International Workshop on Usage Analysis and the Web of Data (co-located with WWW2011)
  • ACM ICMR 2011
  • EU Erasmus summer school on Information Foraging 2011 (scientific coordinator)

2010

  • DIR 2010 (chair)
  • SIGIR 2010
  • ACL 2010
  • SSCS 2010 workshop @ ACM Multimedia 2010 (co-organizer)
  • AIEMPRO 2010 workshop @ ACM Multimedia 2009
  • IRF conference 2010

2009

  • ACM CIKM SIGIR 2009 (IR track vice programme chair)
  • ACM SIGIR 2009
  • ACL 2009
  • ECIR 2009
  • DIR 2009
  • ICSC 2009: special session on speech search
  • SSCS 2009 workshop @ ACM Multimedia 2009 (co-organizer)
  • Multimedia in Forensics workshop @ ACM Multimedia 2009
  • co-chair SAMT 2009 Industry Day
  • organizer symposium “In search of privacy”

2000-2008

Membership,
Boards.

  • TRECVID
    (international video indexing and retrieval evaluation campaign)
    (2003-): joint coordinator (with Alan
    Smeaton)
  • ACM: senior member
  • ACM SIGIR: member
  • ACM SIGKDD: member
  • BCS IRSG: member
  • Journal of Multimedia: member of the editorial board
  • CLIN Journal: member of the editorial board
  • Information Processing & Management: member of the editorial board (2009-2015)

Panels

  • CLEF 2000 closing panel session
  • DUC 2002 panel on evaluation of automatic summarization
    systems
  • Search engines meeting 2004, panel on multilingual information
    retrieval