I have been involved in a number of review and event organization activities.

Organization of Events

• General Chair, The 9th Semantic MediaWiki Conference (SMWCon Spring 2014), May 21–23, 2014, Concordia University, Montréal, QC, Canada.
• Program Committee Chair, 4th Canadian Semantic Web Symposium (CSWS 2013), July 10, 2013, Montréal, QC, Canada.
• Co-Organizer and Program Committee Co-Chair, Annotation, Interpretation and Management of Mutations (AIMM), Workshop at the 9th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB10), September 26, 2010, Ghent, Belgium.
• Local Organizer, Third GATE Training Course and Developer Sprint, August 30th-September 3rd, 2010, Concordia University, Montreál, Canada.
• Co-Organizer and Program Committee Co-Chair, New Challenges for NLP Frameworks, Workshop at LREC 2010, May 22, Valletta, Malta.
• Program Committee Co-Chair, The Third International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing (SEMAPRO 2009), October 11-16, 2009, Sliema, Malta.
• Co-Organizer and Program Committee Co-Chair, International Workshop on Semantic Technologies in System Maintenance (STSM 2008) at the sixteenth IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2008), June 9, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• Co-Organizer and Program Committee Co-Chair, Traceability in Software Engineering—Past, Present and Future, Workshop at CASCON 2007, October 25, Sheraton Parkway Toronto North Hotel and Convention Centre, Ontario, Canada.

Program Committee Memberships

• 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020), May 11–16, 2020, Marseille, France.
• 33rd Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Canadian AI 2020), May 12–15, 2020, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
• 2nd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2019), May 20–22, 2019, Leipzig, Germany.
• 13th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2019), January 30–February 1, 2019, Newport Beach, California, USA.
• 31st Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Canadian AI 2018), May 8-11, 2018, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• 27th World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2018, a.k.a The Web Conference), Reviewer for the Intelligent and Autonomous systems on the Web track, April 23–27, 2018, Lyon, France.
• 12th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2018), January 31–February 2, 2018, Laguna Hills, California, USA.
• 11th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2017), January 31–February 2, 2017, San Diego, California, USA.
• Tenth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2016), February 3–5, 2016, Laguna Hills, California, USA.
• International Conference of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (GSCL 2015), September 30–October 2, 2015, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
• Ninth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2015), February 7–9, 2015, Anaheim, California, USA.
• The 38th Annual International Computers, Software & Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2014), July 21–25, 2014, Västerås, Sweden.
• 18th International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS'14), July 7–9, 2014, Porto, Portugal.
• 19th International Conference on Application of Natural Language Processing to Information Systems (NLDB 2013), June 18–20, 2014, Montpellier, France.
• Eighth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2014), June 16–18, 2014, Newport Beach, California, USA.
• 11th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2014), May 25–29, 2014, Anissaras, Crete, Greece.
• Graduate Student Symposium (CAI-GSS 2014) at the 27th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Canadian AI 2014), May 5, 2014, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
• The 12th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2013), Reviewer for the Evaluation Track, October 21–25, 2013, Sydney, Australia.
• International Conference of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (GSCL 2013), September 25–27, 2013, Darmstadt, Germany.
• Seventh IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2013), September 16–18, 2013, Irvine, CA, USA.
• Semantic Web and Information Extraction (SWAIE 2013), Workshop at RANLP 2013, September 12/13, 2013, Hissar, Bulgaria.
• The 37th Annual International Computer Software & Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2013), July 22–26, 2013, Kyoto, Japan.
• 4th Canadian Semantic Web Symposium (CSWS 2013), July 10, 2013, Montréal, QC, Canada.
• 18th International Conference on Application of Natural Language Processing to Information Systems (NLDB 2013), June 19–21, 2013, University of Salford, UK.
• Web of Linked Entities (WoLE 2012), Workshop at the 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012), November 11, 2012, Boston, MA, USA.
• Semantic Web and Information Extraction (SWAIE 2012), Workshop at the 18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2012), October 8/9, 2012, Galway, Ireland.
• Sixth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2012), September 19–21, 2012, Palermo, Italy.
• 1st Workshop on Automatic Text Summarization of the Future (ATSF 2012), September 7, 2012, Universitat Jaume I de Castellón, Spain.
• 36th IEEE Conference on Computers, Software, and Applications (COMPSAC 2012), July 16–20, 2012, Izmir, Turkey.
• ACL 2012: 3rd workshop on the People’s Web meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources and their Applications to NLP, July 12-13, 2012, Jeju, Republic of Korea.
• 17th International conference on Application of Natural Language Processing to Information Systems (NLDB 2012), June 26–28, 2012, Groningen, The Netherlands.
• Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2012), June 10–14, Washington, DC, USA. ACM/IEEE.
• 25th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2012), May 28–30, 2012, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• EACL 2012 Workshop on Semantic Analysis in Social Media, April 23, 2012, Avignon, France.
• Fifth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2011), September 18–21, 2011, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA. IEEE.
• Third Canadian Semantic Web Symposium (CSWS 2011), August 5, 2011, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
• 3rd Semantic Technology and Knowledge Engineering Conference (STAKE 2011), July 2011, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• 16th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2011), June 28-30, Alicante, Spain.
• Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2011), June 13-17, 2011, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. ACM/IEEE.
• 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2011), NLP Track Reviewer, May 29-June 4, 2011, Heraklion, Greece.
• 24th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2011), May 25-27, 2011, St. John's, Canada.
• Text Summarization Workshop at Canadian AI (TS11), May 24, 2011, St. John's, Canada.
• The 25th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), Semantic Web Track Reviewer, March 2011, Singapore.
• The Fourth International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing (SEMAPRO 2010), October 25-30, 2010, Florence, Italy.
• Fourth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (IEEE ICSC2010), September 22-24, 2010, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
• 33rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, 19-23 July 2010, Geneva, Switzerland.
• The People's Web meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources, Workshop at COLING 2010, Beijing, China.
• 15th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2010), June 23-25, 2010, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK.
• Teaching AI in Computing and Information Technology (AI-CIT 2010), Co-located with Canadian AI 2010, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
• Twenty-Third Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Canadian AI 2010), May 31-June 2, 2010, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
• 8th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA 2010), May 31-June 2, 2010, Montréal, Canada. IEEE.
• New Challenges for NLP Frameworks, Workshop at LREC 2010, May 22, Valletta, Malta.
• The Third International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing (SEMAPRO 2009), October 11-16, 2009, Sliema, Malta.
• The 2nd International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2009), October, 2009, Denver, Colorado, USA.
• Third IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2009), September 14-16, 2009, Berkeley, CA, USA.
• Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2009), August 6-7, 2009, Singapore.
• The People's Web meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources, Workshop at ACL/IJCNLP 2009, August 7, 2009, Singapore.
• The 32nd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, July 19-23, 2009, Boston, MA, USA.
• 14th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2009), June 23-26, 2009, Saarbrücken, Germany.
• The 6th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2009), Demo/Poster Session Reviewer, 31 May-4 June 2009, Heraklion, Greece.
• The 22nd Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2009), May 25-27, 2009, Kelowna, BC, Canada.
• International Symposium on Teaching AI in Computing and Information Technology, co-located with Canadian AI (AI'09), May 24, 2009, Kelowna, BC, Canada.
• The Second Canadian Semantic Web Working Symposium (CSWWS 2009), May 24, 2009, Kelowna, BC, Canada.
• Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2008), November 26-28, 2008, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
• 4th International Workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering (SWESE 2008), Workshop at ISWC 2008, October 26, Karlsruhe, Germany.
• Twelfth International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS 2008), September 3-5, 2008, Münster, Germany.
• Second IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2008), August 4-7, 2008, Santa Clara, California, USA.
• 21st Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Canadian A.I. 2008), May 28-30, 2008, Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
• The 2nd International Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine (LBM 2007), December 6-7, 2007, Biopolis, Singapore.
• 4th International Workshop on Language Engineering: Metamodels, Schemas, Grammars, and Ontologies (ATEM 2007), Workshop at MoDELs 2007, October 1st, Nashville, TN, USA.
• Eleventh International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS 2007), September 6-8, 2007, Banff, Alberta, Canada. IEEE.
• Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2007), October 22-24, 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. IEEE.
• Tenth International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS 2006), December 11-14, 2006, Delhi, India. IEEE.
• Sixth International Conference on Intelligent System Design and Applications (ISDA 2006), October 16-18, 2006, Jinan, Shandong, China. IEEE.

Other Review Activities

• Project Proposal Reviewer for Mitacs (Accelerate), Canada, 2013.
• Journal Paper Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013. IEEE Computer Society.
• Project Proposal Reviewer for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grants (DG) 2012 Competition (one proposal).
• Journal Paper Reviewer, IEEE Software, 2012. IEEE Computer Society.
• Journal Paper Reviewer, PLoS ONE, 2012. Public Library of Science.
• Project Proposal Reviewer for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grants (DG) 2011 Competition (one proposal).
• Editorial Advisory Board Member and Reviewer for the book Semi-Automatic Ontology Development: Processes and Resources. IGI Publishing, 2012.
• Member of the external reviewers board for the book Ontology Driven Software Development (Springer, 2011)
• Project Proposal Reviewer for Mitacs (Accelerate), Canada, 2011.
• Special Issue Editor, Annotation, Interpretation and Management of Mutations, BMC Bioinformatics, 2011.
• Project Proposal Reviewer for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grants (DG) 2010 Competition (one proposal).
• Journal Paper Reviewer, Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE), 2010. Elsevier.
• Project Proposal Reviewer for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grants (DG) 2009 Competition (two proposals).
• Reviewer, International Journal On Advances in Intelligent Systems, IARIA.
• Project Reviewer for the Austrian research funding initiative FIT-IT in the area Semantic Systems and Services, 2008, Salzburg, Austria.
• Journal Paper Reviewer, Soft Computing Journal, 2008. Springer.
• Journal Paper Reviewer, Information Systems (IS), 2008. Elsevier.
• Journal Paper Reviewer, Journal of Interesting Negative Results in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning (JINR), 2008.
• Journal Special Issue Review Board Member, Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (JBCB), Special Issue "Making Sense of Mutations requires Knowledge Management"