Academic Service

PhD Viva Examination and Defense

PhD External Examiner for:

  • Dr Maher Itani (Sheffield Hallam University, England, UK)
  • Dr Mohammed Hamed Altamimi (Bangor University, Wales, UK)
  • Dr Chatrine Qwaider (University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden)

PhD Internal Examiner for:

  • Dr Matthew Coole (Lancaster University, England, UK)
  • Dr Edward Dearden (Lancaster University, England, UK)
  • Dr Lama Alsudias (Lancaster University, England, UK)

Professional Services

► Organiser for MultiLing 2019 workshop: Summarization and summary evaluation across source types and genres co-located with RANLP 2019, Varna, Bulgaria

► Organiser of the fourth Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing (WANLP) co-located with EACL 2019, Flroence, Italy

► Programme Committee for the 7th International Conference on Arabic Language Processing 2019 . Nancy, France.

► Programme Committee for the The 3rd International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing 2019 . Toreno, Italy.

► Programme Committee for the Corpus Linguistics 2019 . Cardiff, UK.

► Programme Committee for the fourth International Conference on Arabic Computational Linguistics (ACLing 2018), Dubai, UAE

► Programme Committee for the 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies will be held in New Orleans, June 1 to June 6, 2018

► General Chair of the 1st Financial Narrative Processing Workshop at LREC 7-12 May 2018, Miyazaki, Japan

► Programme Committee for the 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies will be held in New Orleans, June 1 to June 6, 2018

► Programme Committee for the Sixth International Conference on Building and Exploring Web Based Environments (WEB 2018). May 20, 2018 to May 24, 2018 - Nice, France

► Programme Committee for the Corpus Linguistics 2015 . Lancaster, UK.

► Programme Committee for the 3rd Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools at LREC 7-12 May 2018, Miyazaki, Japan

► Programme Committee for the Third International Conference on Arabic Computational Linguistics (ACLing 2017), Dubai, UAE

► Programme Committee for the 6th International Conference on Arabic Language Processing (ICALP 2017), Fez, Morocco

► Organiser of the Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop co-located with EACL 2017, Valencia, Spain

► Programme Committee for MultiLing 2017: Summarization and summary evaluation across source types and genres co-located with EACL 2017, Valencia, Spain

► Programme Committee for the Big Data and NLP workshop hosted at IEEE Big Data 2016

► Summer School Tutor UCREL NLP Summer School 2016 Lancaster University

► Programme Committee for the Corpus Linguistics 2015 . Lancaster, UK.

► Coordinator of the 7th LSE/LUMS/MBS Conference 2013. London, UK.

► Organiser of the UCREL Corpus Research Seminars (CRS) at Lancaster University.

► Coordinator of the MultiLing Workshop at the ACL 2013 Conference in Sofia, Bulgaria.

► Coordinator of the MultiLing Pilot at the Text Analysis Conference (TAC) 2011.

► Organiser of the disciplinary Language And Computation (LAC) group at Essex University.

► Organiser of the FlatLands 2012 Workshop on NLP 2012 at Essex University, UK.

Journal and Conference Reviewing

Reviewer for:

► The 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2019.

► Language Resources and Evaluation Journal 2019.

► Computational Linguistics journal 2019.

► SAGE Open Journal 2018.

► Dyslexia International Journal 2018

► Jordanian Journal of Computers and Information Technology (JJCIT) 2018

► Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering 2017

► International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 2017

► Big Data and NLP workshop hosted at IEEE Big Data 2016

► Digging into Data Challenge grant program (project proposal) 2016.

► Computational Linguistics journal 2016.

► ESRC Research Project Proposal (RCUK) 2015.

► International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 2015.

► Journal of Natural Language Engineering 2014, 2015.

► MDPI Future Internet Journal 2014.

► 15th International Conference on Intelligent Text Proc & Comp Ling (CICLing) 2014.
► LRE-Rel Workshop at the 8th LREC Conference 2012.
► Fourth Computer Science & Electronic Engineering Conference (CEEC) 2012.

► 2nd IEEE Conference on Computer and Communication Technology (ICCCT) 2011.

► 32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) 2010.