Professional Society Activities

  • Member, Vetting Committee, Profesional Services Advancement Support Scheme (PASS), 1/1/2021


  • Member, Executive Committee, Guangdong Provintial Association for Advancement of Guangdong, Hong Kong & Macau Greatter Bay Area Cooperation (廣東省粤港澳大灣區合作促進會常務理事) Jun 2019.


  • Founding Chair, Hong Kong Guanzhou Innovation and Technology Association (HGITA), Mar 2016 - Feb 2018

  • Honorary President, Hong Kong Association of Computer Education (HKACE), 2015-2017.

  • President, Chinese Language Computer Society (CLCS), Jun 2015 - May 2017 (CLCS registered in USA since 1976)

  • President, Asian Federation of Asian Natural Language Processing (AFNLP), Jan 2015 - Dec 2106 (founded since 2003)

  • President, Hong Kong Information Technology Joint Council (HKITJC), 2007-2014.

  • Vice Chairman, ACM SIG Applied Computing, 1996-1998.


  • Chairman, ACM Hong Kong Chapter, 1994-1996.


Journal Editorship

  • Member, Editorial Board, Bauhinia Magazine (紫荊雜誌), HK, 2018 - Present

  • Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Chinese Information Processing, 2006 - Present

  • Member of the advisory board of the International Journal on Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (CLCLP), 2000-2016.

  • Editor-In-Chief, Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (JCPOL), World Scientific Press, 2008-2010.

  • Co-Editor-In-Chief, Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (JCPOL), World Scientific Press, 2004-2008.

  • Founding Editor-In-Chief of ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), 2000-2006.

  • Guest editor of Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Language (JCPOL), Special Issue: Advanced Technologies for Oriental Information Processing, Vol 18, No 2, Jun 2005.

  • Area Editor (E-Commerce) of Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (JCPOL), World Scientific Press, 2000-2003.

  • Co-Guest editor of Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Language (JCPOL), Special Issue: Chinese Database Systems, Vol 14, No 3, Sep 2001.

  • Guest Co-editor of the special issue on "Information Retrieval on Oriental Languages", Journal on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, Sep 1989.

  • Member of the editorial board of International Journal on Parallel and Distributed Databases (Kluwer Publisher), since 1996.

  • Member of the editorial board (database section) of the ACM Applied Computing Review, 1992 - 1995.

  • Guest Co-editor of the special issue on "Logic Programming Applications" of the ACM Applied Computing Review, Fall 1992.


Conferences

Chair

  • Publicity Chair, ACL-IJCNLP-2021, Bangkok, Thailand, 1-6 Aug 2021.

  • General Chair, AACL-IJCNLP-2020, Suzhou, 4-7 Dec 2020.

  • Organization Chair, EMNLP & International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP2019), Hong Kong, Dec 2019.

  • Local Organization Chair, EMNLP & International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP2019), Hong Kong, 3-7 Nov, 2019.

  • Sponsorship Co-Chair (China), ICDE-2010, Macau, 8-11 Apr , 2019.

  • Senior Area Chair, EMNLP-2018, Brussels, Belgium, 31 Oct – 4 Nov, 2018.

  • Sponsorship Co-Chair, NLPCC-2018, Inner Mongolia, China, 26-30 Aug 2019.

  • Forum Chair, “CUHK Technology Forum: AI Over Humans?”, HKCEC, 18 Jan 2018.

  • General Co-Chair, APWeb-WAIM Joint Conference on Web and Big Data 2018, Macau, 23-25 Jul 2018.

  • Publicity Co-Chair, 6th CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing & Chinese Computing (NLPCC2017), Dalian, China, 8-12 Nov 2017.

  • Co-Chair, International Workshop on Language Resources in Asia, Nanning, China, 22-24 April 2017.

  • Conference Co-Chair, 33rd National Database Conference China (NDBC2016), Shenzhen, China, 15-17 Oct, 2016.

  • Conference Co-Chair, 3rd International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp2016), Hong Kong, 18-20 Jan, 2016.

  • General Co-Chair, 4th CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing & Chinese Computing (NLPCC2015), Nanchang, China, Dec 2015.

  • General Chair, 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP2011), Chiang Mai, Thailand, 8-13 November 2011.

  • Organization Chair, 16th Conference on Database Systems For Advanced Applications (DASFAA’2011), Apr 2011.

  • Conference Co-Chair, 1st International Conference on Web Information Processing (ICWIP 2010), Qing Dao, Shandong, China, 12-13 Jul 2010.

  • Program Co-Chair, 23rd International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL10), Redwood, Ca, USA, 1-2 Jul, 2010.

  • General Co-Chair, 4th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS’08), Harbin, China, 16 - 18 Jan 2008.

  • Conference Co-Chair, 10th Asia Pacific Web Conference, Shenyang, China, 26-28 Apr 2007.

  • Finance Co-chair, 2007 ACM SIGMOD Conference, Beijing, 11-14 Jun, 2007.

  • Conference Chair, 21st International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL06), Singapore, December 17-19, 2006.

  • Program Co-Chair, 21st National Database Conference China (NDBC’07), Guangzhou, October 2007.

  • Chair, Greater China Database R&D Summit, Hong Kong, June 2006.

  • Program co-chair, 2nd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP05), Jegu Island, Korea, October 11-13, 2005.

  • Organization Committee co-chair, 2004 Information Security Conference (InfoSecu04), Shanghai, Nov 14-16, 2004.

  • General co-Chair, 1st Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS), Beijing, October 2004.

  • Finance Chair, 1st International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP04) Conference, Hainan, China, March 2004.

  • Program co-chair, 6th International Workshop on Information Retrieval with Asian Languages (IRAL’03), August 2003, Sapporo, Japan.

  • Conference Chair: “Enterprise Portal and Webservices Conference”, IDG, Hong Kong Conventional and Exhibition Centre, June 18, 2003.

  • Program Co-Chair, 6th International Workshop on Information Retrieval with Asian Languages, Sapporo, Japan, July 7, 2003.

  • Conference Co-Chair, 1st International Conference on News ML, Beijing, Dec 5-6, 2002.

  • Panel Co-Chair and Fund Raising Chair, 28th Very Large Database Conference (VLDB2002), Hong Kong, August 20-23, 2002.

  • Program co-chair of the 19th International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL'01), Seoul, Korea, May 14-16 2001.

  • General Chair of ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest Asia Regional Contest, Hong Kong 2000, November/December 2000. (in collaboration with ITSD, HKSAR)

  • General Chair of 2000 Workshop on Information Retrieval for Asian Languages (IRAL 2000), Hong Kong, 2000.

  • Program Co-chair of the International Conference on Chinese Language Computing (ICCLC'2000), Chicago, July 8-9 2000.

  • Co-Chair of the Organising Committee of 1999 International Conference in Information Security, Shanghai, October 10-13 1999.

  • Program co-chair of the 18th International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL'99), Tokushima, Japan, March 29-31 1999.

  • Local Chair of the Data Warehousing and Data Mining Workshop in the Euro-Par'98 Conference, Southampton, UK, September 1-4, 1998.

  • Program co-chair (AI and database track) of 1994 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC94), Phoenix, Arizona, USA, March 6-8, 1994.


Member

  • Senior Program Committee Member IJCAI-2021

  • Member of Program Committee EMNLP 2021

  • Member of Program Committee NAACL-2021

  • Member of Program Committee ACL2020

  • Member of Program Committee EMNLP 2020

  • Member of Program Committee NAACL-HLT 2020

  • Member of Program Committee ACL2019

  • Member of Program Committee NAACL-HLT 2019

  • Member of Program Committee ACL2018

  • Member of Program Committee EMNLP 2018

  • Member of Program Committee NAACL-HLT 2018

  • Member of Program Committee ACL 2017

  • Member of Program Committee EMNLP 2017

  • Member of Program Committee NAACL-HLT 2016

  • Member of Program Committee ACL 2016

  • Member of Program Committee SocialNLP 2016

  • Member of Program Committee NDBC 2016

  • Member of Program Committee EMNLP 2015

  • Member of Program Committee WWW 2015

  • Member of Program Committee NAACL 2015

  • Member of Program Committee NDBC2015

  • Member of Program Committee COLING 2014

  • Member of Program Committee, EMNLP 2014

  • Member of Program Committee, AFNLP 2014

  • Member of Program Committee, ACM SAC 2014

  • Member of Program Committee, Greater China Big Data Workshop 2014

  • Member of Program Committee, NDBC 2014

  • Member of Program Committee, ACL2013

  • Member of Program Committee, EMNLP2013

  • Member of Programme Committee, 2011 ACL-HLT, Portland.

  • Member of Program Committee, DASFAA 2011

  • Member of Program Committee, IWWIP 2010

  • Member of Programme Committee, 2005 International Conference on Digital Archive Technologies (ICDAT2005), 16-17 June 2005, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan.

  • Panelist, 21st National Database Conference, Xiamen, China, Oct 15-17, 2004.

  • Member of the Programme Committee of 2004 ACM SIGMOD Conference, Paris, 2004

  • Member of the Program Committee, Conference on Database Systems For Advanced Applications (DASFAA), Korea, April 2004.

  • Member of the Programme Committee, 2004 International Conference on Digital Archive Technologies (ICDAT04), Taipei, March 18-19, 2004.

  • Member of the Programme Committee, 2004 APEC Workshop on Resource Sharing in Digital Libraries, Taipei, March 15-19, 2004.

  • Member of the Program Committee of 5th International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM2003), New Orleans, USA, Nov. 7-8, 2003.

  • Member of the Programme Committee of 19th International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL'03), Shenyang, China, August 4-6, 2003.

  • Member of the Programme Committee of 2003 International Conference on Database Systems For Advanced Applications (DASFAA03), April 2003, Kyoto.

  • Member of the Programme Committee of 2002 IASTED International Multi-Conference on Applied Informatics (AI2003), February 10-13, 2003, Innsbruck, Austria.

  • Member of the Programme Committee of 2nd International Conference on Web Inforamtion Systems Engineering (WISE2002), Singapore, 2002.

  • Member of the Programme Committee of the ACL SigHan Workshop, 2002, Taiwan.

  • Member of the Programme Committee (Chinese NLP) of 2002 International Conference on Computation Linguistics (COLING2002), Taipei, Taiwan, 2002.

  • Member of the Programme Committee of 2002 IASTED International Conference on Information Systems and Database, Sept 25-27 2002, Tokyo Japan.

  • Member of the Programme Committee of 1st International Workshop on Web Learning, Hong Kong, August 2002. Panel and Fund Raising Chairs, VLDB 2002, Hong Kong.

  • Member of the Programme Committee of 2001 International Conference on Database Systems For Advanced Applications (DASFAA01), April 2001, Hong Kong.

  • Member of the International Programme Committee of SIGIR'2000, Athens, Greece, July 24-28 2000.

  • Member of the Programme Committee of VLDB 2000, Cairo, Egypt, Sept. 1-4, 2000.

  • Member of the Programme Committee of 1st International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE'00), Hong Kong, June 19-20, 2000.

  • Member of the Programme Committee of 1999 International Computer Science Conference, Hong Kong, December 13-15 1999.

  • Member of the Steering Committee of the 4th International Workshop on Information Retrieval for Asian Languages, Taipei, November 1999.

  • Member of the program committee of 9th International Database Conference (IDC'99), Hong Kong, July 15-17 1999.

  • Member of the Programme Committee of 1998 International Conference and Exhibition on High-Performance Computing and Networking, Amsterdam, Holland, April 12-14, 1999.

  • Member of the Steering Committee of the 3rd International Workshop on Information Retrieval for Asian Languages, Singapore, 15-16 October 1998.

  • Member of the Programme Committee of 1st Asian Digital Library Workshop, Hong Kong, August 5-7, 1998.

  • Member of the Programme Committee of 1998 World Multi-conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI'98), Orlando, Florida, July 12-16, 1998.

  • Member of the Programme Committee of 1998 International Conference and Exhibition on High-Performance Computing and Networking, Amsterdam, Holland, April 21-23, 1988.

  • Chief secretary of the Workshop on Chinese Database, Nov. 1997, Hong Kong.

  • Member of the organising committee of 2nd Workshop on Information Retrieval for Asian Languages, Tsukuba-City, October, 1997.

  • Member of the Programme Committee of 1997 World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI'97), Caracas, Venezuella, July 7-11, 1997.

  • Member of the Programme Committee of 1997 International Conference on High Performance Computing and Networking, Vienna, Austria, April 28-30, 1997.

  • Member of the Programme Committee of 1997 International Conference on Database Systems For Advanced Applications (DASFAA97), Melbourne, Australia, April 1-4 1997.

  • Member of the Programme Committee of 16th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, (ICDCS'96), Hong Kong, 1996.

  • Member of the Programme Committee of 1996 International Conference on Data Engineering, New Orleans, 1996.

  • Regional Coordinator of the 15th International Conference on Extended Database Technology, Avignon, France, March 1996.

  • Member of the Programme Committee of 1995 EuroPar Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 1995.

  • Member of the Programme Committee of 15th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, (ICDCS'95), Vancouver, Canada May 31 - June 2, 1995.

  • Member of the Programme Committee of 1995 International Conference on High Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN'95), Milan, May 3-5, 1995.

  • Member of the Programme Committee of 1995 International Conference on Database System For Advanced Applications (DASFAA'95), Singapore, April 11-14, 1995.

  • Member of the Programme Committee of 1994 IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, Dallas, Texas, Dec. 1994.

  • Asian Coordinator of the 3rd International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Information Systems (PDIS94), Austin, Texas, Sept. 1994.

  • Member of the Programme Committee of 1994 Conference on Parallel Architectures and Language Europe (PARLE94), Athens, Greece, July 1994.

  • Member of the Programme Committee of 7th International Conference on Computer Performance Evaluation: Modelling Techniques and Tools (MTT94), Vienna, Austria, May 1994.

  • Member of the Steering Committee of 1994 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC94), Phoenix, Arizona, USA, March, 1994.

  • Member of the Programme Committee of 1st International Workshop on Rules Processing and Active Databases, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 1993.

  • Program co-chair (database track) of 1993 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC93), Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, February, 1993.

  • European coordinator of 2nd International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Information Systems, San Diego, USA, December, 1992.

  • Member of the Programme Committee of 19th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architectures, Gold Coast, Australia, May, 1992.

  • Member of the Steering Committee of 1992 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Kansas City, USA, March 1992.

  • Member of the Programme Committee of 1991 IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, Dallas, USA, December 1991.

  • Member of the Programme Committee of 1990 ACM SIGSMALL/PC on Small and Personal Computers, Arlington, Virginia, USA, April 1990.

  • Member of the Programme Committee of 2nd International Conference on Data and Knowledge Systems for Manufacturing and Engineering, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, October 1989.

  • Member of the Programme Committee of 1988 ACM SIGSMALL/PC on Small and Personal Computers, Cannes, France, May 1988.


Lectures and Seminars

  • Part-time lecturer in Computer Science of Heriot-Watt University during February 88 and May 89.

  • I have visited and given seminars in a number of research institutes around the world, e.g. ICL (UK), Bull (France), INRIA (France), CEC (Belgium), Dept. of CTL City University (HK), DCS-CUHK (HK), DCS-HKUST (HK), DCS-HKU (HK), University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, Washington, USA), Puget Sound ACM Professional Chapter (USA), University of Central Florida (Orlando, Florida, USA), Washington D.C. ACM Professional Chapter (USA), Auburn U. (AL, US), UAB (AL, US), ACM Phoenix Chapter (AZ, US), Birgmingham Southern College (AL, US), U. of Oregon (Eugene, OR, US), Venderbilt U. (Nashville, TN US), Mississippi State U. (Starkville, MS, US), Middle Tennessee State U. (Murfreesboro, TN, US), Western Kentucky U. (Bowling Green, KY, US), Tsinghua University (Beijing, China), Renmin University (Beijing, China), Zhongshan University (Guangzhou, China), South China Polytechnic University (Guangzhou, China), Kyoto U. (Japan), Osaka U. (Japan), Tsukuba U. (Japan), ICOT (Japan), Fujitsu (Japan), University of Tokyo (Japan) and IBM TRL (Japan).