Fabrizio Sebastiani: Appointments
Current appointments:
- Editor-in-Chief (with Jamie
Callan) of the Foundations
and Trends in Information Retrieval journal (Now
Publishers)
- Associate Editor of ACM
Transactions on Information Systems (ACM Press)
- Member of the Editorial Board of
Information
Retrieval (Kluwer Academic Publishers)
- Member of the Editorial Board of
Information
Processing and Management (Elsevier)
- Programme co-Chair of the
14th European
Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL'10), Glasgow,
UK.
- Member of the Program Committee of
the ECIR'10 Workshop on Large-Scale Hierarchical Classification , Milton Keynes, UK.
- Member of the Program Committee of
the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10), Valletta,
MT.
- Member of the Program Committee of
the 1st Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR'10), Padova,
IT.
- Member of the Program Committee of
the 32nd European
Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'10), Milton Keynes,
UK.
- Member of the Tutorials and
Workshops Committee of
the 32nd European
Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'10), Milton Keynes,
UK.
Recent appointments:
- From 2004 to 2009, Member of the
Editorial Board of Journal
of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
(John Wiley & Sons).
- Area Chair for SIGIR'09,
the 32nd ACM International Conference on Research and Development in
Information Retrieval, Boston, US, 2009.
- Tutorial Co-Chair of the 2009
IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence (WI'09)
and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'09), Milano, IT, 2009.
- Member of the Program Committee of
the Information Retrieval and Access track of SAC'09,
23nd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Honolulu, US, 2009.
- Member of the Program Committee of
the Conference on
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'09),
Singapore, SN, 2009.
- Member of the Program Committee of the EACL'09
Workshop on GEometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics
(GEMS'09), Athens, GR, 2009.
- Area Chair for ICDM'08,
the 8th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, Pisa, IT,
2008.
- Program Co-Chair of SIGIR'08, the
31st ACM International
Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval,
Singapore, SN, 2008.
- Member of the Program Committee of
the 6th Language
Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'08), Marrakech, MA,
2008.
- Member of the Program Committee of
the Information Retrieval and Access track of SAC'08,
23nd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Fortaleza, BR, 2008.
- Vice-Chairman of ACM
SIGIR, the Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval of the
Association for Computing Machinery for the term July 2003 -
June 2007.
- From 2002 to 2004, member of the
Editorial Board of ACM Computing
Reviews, for which I was responsible for the Information Systems
area.
- Member of the Senior Program
Committee of SIGIR'07, 30th ACM
International Conference on Research and Development in Information
Retrieval, Amsterdam, NL, 2007.
- Member of the Program Committee of
CIKM'07, 16th ACM Conference
on Information and Knowledge Management , Lisbon, PT, 2007.
- Member of the Program Committee of
SCAR'07, Workshop on
Semantic Content Acquisition and Representation , Tartu, EE,
2007.
- Member of the Program Committee of
COSMO'07,
Workshop on Contextual Information in Semantic Space Models,
Roskilde, DK, 2007.
- Member of the Program Committee of
the Information Retrieval and Access track of SAC'07,
22nd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Seoul, KR, 2007.
- Member of the Program Committee
and Area Coordinator (Text Categorization and Clustering) of
SIGIR'05, the 28th ACM
International Conference on Research and Development in Information
Retrieval, Salvador de Bahia, BR, 2005.
- Member of the Program Committee of
ECIR'05, the 27th
European Conference on Information Retrieval, Santiago de
Compostela, ES, 2005.
- Member of the Program Committee
and Area Coordinator (Machine Learning for IR, Text Data Mining,
Clustering, Text Categorization) of SIGIR'04,
the 27th ACM International Conference on Research and Development in
Information Retrieval, Sheffield, UK, 2004.
- Member of the Program Committee of
CIKM'04, the 13th ACM
Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Washington,
US, 2004.
- Member of the Program Committee of
AAAI'04,
the 19th Conference of the American Association for Artificial
Intelligence, San Jose, US, 2002.
- Member of the Program Committee of
ECIR'04, the 26th European
Conference on Information Retrieval, Sunderland, UK, 2004.
- Member of the Program Committee of
SPIRE'04, the 11th
International Symposium on String Processing and Information
Retrieval, Padova, IT, 2004.
- Member of the Program Committee of
ISKO'04, the 8th Conference
of the International Society for Knowledge Organization, London,
UK, 2004.
- Member of the Program Committee of
LREC'04, the
4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation,
Lisbon, PT, 2004.
- Member of the Program Committee of
IEA/AIE'04,
the 17th International Conference on Industrial & Engineering
Applications of Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems,
Ottawa, CA, 2004.
- From October 1998 to November
2004, Italian representative of the European
Chapter of the American Society for Information Science and
Technology (ASIST).
- General and Program Chair of
ECIR'03, 25th European
Conference on Information Retrieval Research, Pisa, IT, 2003. I
am also the Guest Editor of a Special Issue (published as Issue 3-4,
Volume 7, 2004) of the Information
Retrieval journal (Kluwer) devoted to ECIR'03.
- Member of the Program Committee
and Area Coordinator (Machine Learning for IR, Text Data Mining,
Clustering, Text Categorization) of SIGIR'03,
the 26th ACM International Conference on Research and Development in
Information Retrieval, Toronto, CA, 2003.
- Member of the Program Committee of
PKDD'03,
the 7th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge
Discovery in Databases, Dubrovnik, KR, 2003.
- Member of the Program Committee of
SPIRE'03, the 10th
International Symposium on String Processing and Information
Retrieval, Manaus, BR, 2003.
- Member of the Program Committee of
IEA/AIE'03, the
16th International Conference on Industrial & Engineering
Applications of Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems,
Loughborough, UK, 2003.
- Guest-editor (together with
Thorsten Joachims)
of the Special Issue on Automated Text Categorization of the Journal
of Intelligent Information Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers.
This special issue appears as Issue 2, Volume 18, March 2002.
- Chair of the 2nd
Workshop on Operational Text Classification Systems, co-located
with ACM SIGIR'02, the 25th ACM International Conference on Research
and Development in Information Retrieval, Tampere, FI, 2002.
- Member of the Program Committee of
AAAI'02,
the 18th Conference of the American Association for Artificial
Intelligence, Edmonton, CA, 2002.
- Member of the Program Committee of
ICML'02, the 19th
International Conference on Machine Learning, Sydney, AU, 2002.
- Member of the Program Committee of
ECIR'02, the 24th
European Colloquium on Information Retrieval Research, Glasgow,
UK, 2002.
- Member of the Program Committee of
ASAI'02,
the 4th Argentinean Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Santa
Fe, AR, 2002.
- Member of the Program Committee of
PKDD'02, the 6th European
Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in
Databases, Helsinki, FI, 2002.
- Member of the Program Committee of
ECDL'02, the 6th European
Conference on Digital Libraries, Roma, IT, 2002.
- Member of the Program Committee of
SPIRE'02,
the 9th International Symposium on String Processing and Information
Retrieval, Lisbon, PT, 2002.
- Member of the Program Committee of
the Workshop
in Text Mining, co-located with ICML'02, the 19th International
Conference on Machine Learning, Sydney, AU, 2002.
- Member of the Program Committee of the Workshop
on "Linguistic knowledge acquisition and representation:
bootstrapping annotated language data", co-located with
LREC'02, the 3rd International Conference on Language Resources and
Evaluation, Las Palmas, ES, 2002.
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