Further Activities

• Program committee ACM Symposium of Applied Computing (SAC) 2007 Track Document Engineering
  
• Program committee ACM SIGIR 2006 Workshop on New Directions in Multilingual Information Access
  
• Review Chair Eighth International Workshop on Internationalization of Products and Systems (IWIPS 2006), Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
• Coordinator of the Robust Task within the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF)
  
• Member GeoCLEF Track Committee in the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF)
• Program Chair Workshop Information Retrieval of the German Computer Society 2006 in Hildesheim, Germany
  
• Program committee for Information Retrieval for the 2006 Conference on Human Language Technology - North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL 2006)
  
• Program committee: 8th International Symposium for Information Science (ISI) 2002 and 2004
  
• Scientific organisation of the Workshop Cultural Aspects of Human-Computer Interaction within the German Computer Society Conference Mensch & Computer 2005 in Linz, Austria
  
• Program chair and organisation chair: Hildesheimer Evaluierungs- und Retrieval (HIER) Workshop 2000 - 2006
• Program and organisation committee: Workshop Lessons Learned from Evaluation: Towards Integration and Transparency in Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval (CLIR) at the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) 2004

 Journals

• Editorial Board of the International Journal of Intercultural Information Management (IJIIM)
• Informatica
• Interacting with Computers
• International Journal of Human-Computer Systems (IJHCS)
• Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
• Reference Review

• Swiss National Fund (SNF)
• Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF)
• Research Committee of the University of Hildesheim (1999-200

Conferences

• ACM CHI. Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems (2000 - 2006)
• The International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision, WSCG (2003, 2004, 2005)
• Annual International Workshop on Internationalization of Products and Systems. IWIPS (2002 - 2006)
• British HCI Group Annual Conference (HCI 2002, HCI 2004, HCI 2005)
• World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI) Orlando, Florida, USA. 2003 - 2006

2000-present

Responsible for the budget of the Institute for Applied Linguistics at the University of Hildesheim