Editorial Service

1. Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 2009-
2. Associate Editor, Springer International Journal of Social Robotics, 2007-
3. Guest Editor, Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (CLCLP), 2007, http://www.aclclp.org.tw
4. Guest Editor, International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (IJCPOL), 2007, http://www.worldscinet.com/ijcpol/ijcpol.shtml
5. Guest Editor, ACM Transactions on Asian Languages Information Processing, 2007

Professional Membership

1. Board Member, International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), 2009-2013, www.isca-speech.org
2. Board Member, Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, 2006-, Chair of Communications and Liaison Committee, AFNLP. www.afnlp.org
3. Committee Member, IEEE Singapore Computer Chapter, 2010
4. Vice President, Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society, 2006-2008. www.colips.org
5. Senior Member of IEEE, 1990-
6. Member of ACL

Conference

1. General Chair, The 50th Annual Meeting of Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2012
2. Organizing Chair, The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop (Odyssey), 2012
3. Area Coordinator, Interspeech 2010, 26-30 September 2010, Makuhari, Japan
4. Workshop Chair, The 2nd Named Entities Workshop with Shared Task on Machine Transliteration, ACL 2010, Sweden
5. Area Chair, The 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2010, Beijing China
6. Area Chair, 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2010, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
7. Program Chair, The 2nd Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, APSIPA ASC 2010, Singapore
8. Conference Chair, International Conference on Social Robotics 2010, Singapore
9. General Chair, International Conference on Asian Language Processing, IALP 2009, Singapore, http://ialp2009.colips.org
10. Local Organizing Chair, The 47th Annual Meeting of ACL - 4th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, ACL-IJCNLP 2009, Singapore, www.acl-ijcnlp.org
11. Workshop Chair, The 1st Named Entities Workshop with Shared Task on Machine Transliteration, ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Workshop, Singapore
12. Local Arrangements Chair, The 31st SIGIR (The 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference) 2008, Singapore, www.sigir2008.org
13. Workshop Chair, The 3rd IJCNLP (Int'l Joint Conf. on Natural Language Processing) 2008, Hyderabad, www.ijcnlp2008.org
14. Chair, The 6th SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, 2008, Hyderabad, http://www.ijcnlp2008.org/sighan6/
15. Technical Track Chair, 5th ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Virtual-Reality Continuum and its Applications in Industry (VRCAI 2008), 8-9 December 2008, Singapore
16. Program Chair, Infocomm Horizons 2007, http://horizons07.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/
17. Senior Researcher, Johns Hopkins University 2007 Summer Workshop on Human Language Technology
18. Member of Standing Committee, National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communications, China, 2006-
19. Member of Scientific Review Committee , Interspeech 2007-, www.interspeech2007.org
20. Conference General Chair, The 5th ISCSLP (International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing), 2006.
21. External Reviewer, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong Government, 2005
22. Member of Evaluation Panel, Singapore-Israel Industrial R&D foundation, 2005-
23. Member of Program Committee
    • Speech Prosody 2010
    • Workshop on Spoken Languages Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages 2010
    • First International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology 2009
    • PACLIC 23, 2009
    • International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation 2009,2010
    • WWW Workshop - Content Analysis in Web 2.0, 2009
    • New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction, 2009
    • International Conference on Social Robotics, 2009
    • The International Conference on the Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL), 2009
    • SIGIR Workshop - Spontaneous Conversational Speech Workshop, 2008
    • The 6th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2008
    • Oriental COCOSDA (The International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques), 2003-2008
    • IEEE Odyssey Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop, 2007
    • The 5th SIGHAN Workshop, 2006
    • Asian Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS), 2006
    • International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages(ICCPOL), 2006
24. Reviewer
    • IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
    • IEEE Signal Processing Letters
    • IEEE Intelligent Systems
    • Information Retrieval
    • ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing
    • Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
    • IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
    • IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
    • International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP)
    • IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME)
    • Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
    • Annual Meeting of Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL)
    • North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT)
    • Interspeech
    • Asian Information Retrieval Symposium
    • International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision
    • Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA)
    • Computational Linguistics

Keynote/Invited Speeches

1. PACLIC 22 (Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation) 2008
2. ACM SIGIR 2008 Workshop: Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech, July 24, 2008
3. Human Language Technology Industrial Forum 2008
4. PREMIA Workshop 2007
5. Oriental COCOSDA 2007
6. Asian Biometrics Conference 2007
7. 2nd Workshop on Asian Applied NLP and Language Resource Development 2007