service

Event Participation

• Invited speaker at Second Workshop on Multimodal Fact Checking And Hate Speech Detection at AAAI 2023

• Invited speaker at the Second Workshop on Combating Online Hostile Posts in Regional Languages during Emergency Situation at ACL2022

• Invited speaker at the Meta Learning and Its Applications to Natural Language Processing workshop at ACL2021

• Invited speaker at the workshop Artificial Intelligence and the Posthumanities (video recording here)

• Invited speaker at the 2nd International Workshop on Rumours and Deception in Social Media

• Invited speaker at the NeurIPS2017 workshop on Prioritizing Online Content.

Event Organization

• Program co-chair of EACL 2023

• Diversity and Inclusion co-chair of EMNLP 2022

• Program co-chair of the Automated Knowledge Base Construction conference 2022

• Inaugural Program co-chair and member of the organisation committee of Truth and Trust Online (2019)

• Co-organizer of the Fact Extraction and VERification worshop and shared task (2018-)

• Co-organizer of the Structured Prediction in Natural Language Processing workshop (2019-)

• Co-organizer of the Second International Workshop on Recent Trends in News Information Retrieval (NewsIR2018)

• Advisor to the Fake News Challenge

• Advisor to the End-to-End Natural Language Generation Challenge

• Co-organizer of the EACL 2014 workshop Dialogue in Motion.

• Co-organizer (until 8/2015) of the South England Statistical NLP Meetup.

Industrty Links

• Advisor to Omilia on dialog systems.

• Co-founder and former advisor of Factmata on automated fact checking, acquired by Cision.

• Codean Inc. on extracting information from legal documents.

• Tenode Ltd. on information extraction

• QualPact Inc. on biomedical natural language processing applications.