Acted as internal and external PhD
examiner (University of Huddersfield).
External advisor on the MSc, PGDip
and PGCert in Geospatial Intelligence run by the Royal School of Military
Survey (RSMS) and Cranfield University [from 2010]
Advisory member of the
Research Information Network (RIN).
[2007-2009]
Acted as internal and external PhD examiner (University of
Huddersfield).
External advisor on the MSc, PGDip and PGCert in
Geospatial Intelligence run by the Royal School of Military Survey (RSMS) and
Cranfield University [from 2010]
Involved in the
Cross Language
Evaluation Form (CLEF) for several years, both on the steering committee
and as a track organiser (ImageCLEF and iCLEF) I was involved in setting up a
cross-language image retrieval track (called
ImageCLEF) in 2003 (this still runs).
I have been
involved in the mentoring programme for SIGIR (2008 and 2009).
Editorial board of the
International Journal of Digital Library Systems (IJDLS)
and
Plagiary
External reviewer for the UK National Archives (TNA) for their search committee
(2009)
External reviewer for research projects for the Science
Foundation Ireland (SFI), the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research
Council (EPSRC) and the Arts and Humanities Council (AHRC).
I was invited to talk at the
Online Computer Library
Centre, Inc. in Dublin (Ohio, USA) as a part of their
Distinguished Seminar Series (23 Sept. 2009)
The
TrebleCLEF
Summer School on Multilingual Information Access (Pisa, Italy) 15-19 June
2009. I ran two tutorials: "Multilingual Search Assistance: Interactive Aspects
of Cross Language Information Access" and "MultiMatch: A
Multilingual/Multinedia Search Engine for Cultural Heritage: Interface Design
and Demo"
I was invited to the University of Valencia to give a number
of talks to postgraduate students and members of the Computer Science
department. Talks included "Experiments involving a Web2.0 application called
Flickr", "Research in Geographical Information Retrieval" and "Measuring Text
Reuse in the British Press Industry" (June 2009).
Invited speaker at
the MAVIR 2008 event (Nov. 2008) in Madrid, Spain. My talk was entitled
"Multimedia retrieval and evaluation".
Guest lecturer at the
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) to teach on
plagiarism detection and business intelligence (Nov. 2008).
Invited to
speak at an interdisciplinary workshop held at Cambridge University on July 1st
2008. The workshop was entitled "Inspiration, Innovation, or Infringement:
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Piracy and Copyright" and organised by the
Centre for Intellectual Property & Information Law and held at Emmanuel
College, Cambridge. I gave a paper on my PhD work entitled "Measuring Text
Reuse in Journalism".
The
Umbrella 2007 conference organised
by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals - "Trends
in multimedia retrieval - the professional implications" (June 2007).
Panel session on evaluation of medical retrieval systems at
ISHIMR2007 conference
- "Current state-of-the-art in image retrieval", Sheffield (July
2007).
Panel session on evaluation of image retrieval systems at
American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) - "ImageCLEF:
the CLEF Cross-Language Image Retrieval Campaign", Austin, Texas USA (November
2006).
A review of News at Seven, a new US
personalised video news service by a New Scientist journalist in 2006. The
article appeared
online.
The DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries Demo Day,
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Francois-Mitterand site Paris, France
- "
Building
and Evaluating Systems for Cross-Language Image Retrieval" (1st Feb, 2006).
The MICHAEL (Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe)
conference: towards a catalogue for the European digital library - "Bridging
the Language Gap: making digital collections available to a multilingual
society", The Watershed, Bristol (15th November, 2005)
Universidad
Iberoamericana, Torreon, Coahuila - "SPIRIT: spatially-aware information
retrieval on the Internet" (August 2005)
Lancaster University to the
Corpus Linguistics Research Group (CRG) - "Measuring Text Reuse" (26th May
2005)
Talk on literary forensics to local Sheffield college students
studying forsensics (Audiometry Day organised by Department of Computer
Science) - "Analysing Texts for Style and Authorship" (21st April 2005)
Departmental Advisory Panel (Information studies, University of Sheffield)
- "Cross-Language Image Retrieval" (5th April 2005)
Geneva University
with Bill Hersh on ImageCLEF - "Cross-language image retrieval" (17th March
2005)
Press Association, London - "METER - Measuring Text Reuse" (4th
November 2004)
Keynote speaker at a Digital Forum event organised by
Buiness Link South Yorkshire, Sheffield, UK - "SPIRIT: Spatially-Aware
Information Retrieval on the Internet" (September 23rd 2004).
Keynote
speaker at RIAO'2004, Avignon, France - "The CLEF cross language image
retrieval campaign - ImageCLEF" (May 2004).
Lecture to the Information
Storage and Retrieval (ISR) students, Sheffield - "Measuring Text Reuse"
(February 2003).
Lecture to Machine Learning students, Sheffield -
"Waikato Environment for Knowledge Engineering (WEKA)" (annually).
Institute of Language, Speech and Hearing (ILASH), Sheffield - "Measuring the
reuse of text in journalism" (May 2002).
I have reviewed for several
conferences, workshops and journals including:
SIGIR 2010 Workshop on the
Simulation of Interaction (SimInt).
Conference on Empirical Methods in
Natural Language Processing (EMNLP2010).
European Association for
Computational Linguistics (EACL) workshop on New Texts (2006)
Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) workshop on
Geographic IR (GIR'05-07)
Plagiary (cross-disciplinary studies in
plagiarism, fabrication and falsification)
European Conference on
Information Retrieval (ECIR)
Computer Speech and Language (CSL)
Special Issue on Word Sense Disambiguation (March 2004)
Journal of
Machine Learning Research (JMLR)
Special Interest Group in Information
Retrieval (SIGIR)
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL)
International Journal on Geographic Information Systems (IJGIS)
European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2005)
Computers, Environment and
Urban Systems (CEUS)
Database Systems for Advanced Applications
(DASFAA)
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
(TOSEM)
Information Processing and Management (IPM)
Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
ACM Transactions on Asian
Language Information Processing (TALIP)
ACM Transactions on the Web
(TWEB)
Computers and the Humanities (CHUM)