2019 and upcoming

• Keynote speaker at the RELATIONS 2019 workshop co-located with IWCS 2019, Gothenburg, Sweden, May 23.
• Keynote speaker at the Vector Space Semantics for Dialogue and Discourse workshop co-located with IWCS 2019, Gothenburg, Sweden, May 24. 
• Participated in the Mentoring program of the WiNLP 2019 workshop (Widening NLP).
• Invited researcher at the IMS PhD Retreat.
• Member, standing review committee, Transactions of the Association of Computational Linguistics (TACL) journal, 2017-2019 and 2019-2021 terms.
• Information Officer in the SIGSEM Board, 2013-present.
• Reviewer for: ConSOLE28 (28th edition of the Conference of the Student Organisation of Linguistics in Europe). 

2018

• Keynote speaker at BNAIC/BENELEARN 2018 (Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Annual Machine Learning Conference of the Benelux), ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands, November 8-9 2018 (slides).
• Invited speaker at the Frontier Research and Artificial Intelligence conference organized by the ERCEA, Brussels, Belgium, 25-26 October 2018.
• Keynote speaker at ARR workshop, ESSLLI 2018, Sofia, Bulgaria, August 6-10 2018 (slides).
• Keynote speaker at BRIDGE workshop, ESSLLI 2018, Sofia, Bulgaria, August 6-10 2018 (slides).
• Invited speaker at COMPLEXITAT, Barcelona, May 29 2018.
• Co-organizer, Deep Learning Barcelona Symposium, Barcelona, December 20-21 2018.
• Participating in the MENTOS Mentoring Female Engineering Students Program of UPF's Technology Department, 2018. 
• Invited to contribute a post on how to review to the NAACL HLT 2018 blog.

2017

• Invited speaker, GLiF seminar of U. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, September 28 2017: "The AMORE project" (slides).
• Keynote speaker, TbiLLC 2017, Lagodekhi, Georgia, September 18-22 2017: "Distributional semantics in linguistic research" (slides).
• Keynote speaker, INLG 2017, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, September 4-7 2017: "Talking about the world with a distributed model" (slides). Covered in the news here and here.
• Invited talk, Meeting of the SIGGRAM Network, U. Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, May 25 2017: "Back to our sense".
• March 2017: The AMORE project is featured in Spanish newspaper El Periódico (Spanish, Catalan).
• Keynote speaker, 18th Szklarska Poreba Workshop, Poland, March 3-6 2017: "Back to our sense" (slides).
• Invited talk, INRIA Seminar, Lille, France, February 16 2017: "Towards linguistic reference with distributional semantics" (slides).
• Invited talk, CLS Speaker Series, ILLC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, January 19 2017: "The interplay between sense and reference" (slides).
• Editorial Board member, Linguistic Issues in Language Technology (LiLT) journal, 2014-present. 
• Reviewer for: CoPo 2017 (Approaches to Coercion and Polysemy), NASSLLI 2017, *SEM 2017, EMNLP 2017, LaML 2017 (Gothenburg, Sweden), IWCS 2017 (Montpellier, France), EACL 2017 (Valencia, Spain), ACL 2017 (Vancouver, Canada), ACM Computing Surveys journal.

2016

• Area chair for Semantics, ACL 2016, Berlin, Germany.
• Keynote speaker, NASSLLI 2016 Workshop on Statistical and Logical Models of Meaning (SaLMoM) workshop, New Jersey, US, July 11-15: "The interplay between conceptual and referential aspects of meaning" (slides).
• Invited speaker, CREST workshop, Sendai, Japan, March 16-17: "Towards linguistic reference with distributional semantics"  (slides).
• Invited talk, ILCC/HCRC seminar series, Edinburgh, UK, February 5: "Towards linguistic reference with distributional semantics".
• Co-organizer (with Denis Paperno), ESSLLI 2016 workshop DSALT: Distributional Semantics and Linguistic Theory (Bolzano, Italy, 15-19 August 2016). 
• Co-editor, Special Issue of Computational Linguistics on Formal Distributional Semantics. 
• Reviewer for: NAACL-HLT 2016 (San Diego, USA; among the best reviewers), EMNLP 2016 (Austin, USA), CLIC-it 2016 (Neaples, Italy), LACL 2016 (Nancy, France), Semantics and Pragmatics.

2015

• Keynote speaker, IWES: International Workshop on Embeddings and Semantics, held in conjunction with SEPLN 2015 (Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing conference), Alicante, Spain, September 15 (slides).
• Program co-chair, *SEM 2015, Denver, Colorado, June 4-5.
• Local co-chair, ESSLLI 2015, Barcelona, Spain, August 3-14. 
• Project evaluator, Fondo para la Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (FONCYT, Argentina), National Science Center (NCN, Poland).
• Distributional semantics for lexical semantics. Invited talk at Catalonia-Israel Symposium on Lexical Semantics and Grammatical Structure in Event Conceptualization, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, February 16-18 2015.
• Talk on oral presentation skills at GLiF seminar, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, January 27, 2015.
• Reviewer for: ACL-IJCNLP 2015 (Beijing, China), EMNLP 2015 (Lisbon, Portugal), IWCS 2015 (London, UK), TAL journal (Traitement Automatique des Langues / NLP), Compositionality and Concepts in Linguistics and Psychology (edited by James Hampton and Yoad Winter; Springer series "Language, Cognition, and Mind"), NLDB'2015 Workshop on NLP applications: Completing the puzzle (Passau, Germany), ICCV 2015 workshop on Closing the Loop between Vision and Language (Santiago, Chile).

2014

• Reviewer for: Artificial Intelligence journal, EACL 2014 (Gothenburg, Sweden), ACL 2014 (Baltimore, USA; recognized as outstanding reviewer), CoLing 2014 (Dublin, Ireland), *SEM 2014 (Dublin, Ireland), CLIC-it 2014 (Pisa, Italy). 

2013

• Intensionality was only alleged: On adjective-noun composition in distributional semantics. Invited talk at Guest lecture series Sonderforschungsbereich 732: Incremental specification in context, Stuttgart university, Germany, 17/07/2013. [Slides, associated paper at IWCS 2013.]
• Area co-chair (with Hwee Tou Ng), *SEM 2013, Atlanta, US, June 13-14th 2013.
  
• Co-organizer (with Aurelie Herbelot and Roberto Zamparelli), IWCS 2013 Workshop: Towards a formal distributional semantics. Potsdam, Germany, March 19th 2013.
  
• Reviewer for: Semantics and Pragmatics, Natural Language Engineering, IWCS 2013 (Potsdam, Germany), Workshop on Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality (Gothenburg, Sweden), GL2013 (Pisa, Italy).

2012

• Attended NASSLLI 2012 at UT Austin (June). It was so great! The associated Turing Centenary Symposium was awesome. Heartfelt thanks and congratulations to the organizers!
• Coloring semantic spaces: Towards perceptually grounded models of word meaning. Invited talk at Guest lecture series Sonderforschungsbereich 732: Incremental specification in context, Stuttgart university, Germany, 13/02/2012. [Slides, associated paper at ACL 2012.]
  
• Reviewer for: ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Weak Referentiality (volume edited by Ana Aguilar-Guevara, Bert Le Bruyn and Joost Zwarts, to be published with John Benjamins), *SEM 2012 (Montreal, Canada), EACL 2012 and EACL 2012 Student Research Workshop (Avignon, France), LREC 2012 (Istanbul, Turkey).

2011

• Modeling regular polysemy: A study in the semantic classification of Catalan adjectives. Invited talk at Linguistics Colloquium, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA, 06/09/11. [Slides]
• Modeling regular polysemy: A study in the semantic classification of Catalan adjectives. Invited talk at CLIC Research Seminar , CIMeC, Rovereto, Italy, 14/07/11.
• Reviewer for: IJCNLP 2011 (Chiang Mai, Thailand), ACL-HLT 2011 (Portland, Oregon, US), ESSLLI 2011 student session (Ljubljana, Slovenia).

2010

• Computational Feedback to Linguistics: A study in the semantic classification of Catalan adjectives. Invited talk at Nancy NLP Seminar, INRIA-Lorraine, Nancy, France, 19/03/10.
• Word Sense Disambiguation and regular polysemy. Invited talk at Institutsversammlung, Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, Stuttgart, Germany, 02/06/10. [Slides]
• Research visit at IMS in Stuttgart, Germany (April-August).
• Reviewer for: COLING 2010 (Beijing, China), NAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on Computational Neurolinguistics (Los Angeles, USA), Workshop on Compositionality and Distributional Semantic Models (ESSLLI 2010 workshop, Copenhagen, Denmark), LREC 2010 (Valletta, Malta), CBA 2010 (Corpus-Based Approaches to Paraphrasing and Nominalization 2010) (Barcelona, Spain).

2009

• Co-organiser of the Jornada del Processament Computacional del Català:
  
• Co-organiser of the Nanoworkshop on statistical physics and linguistics (Barcelona, March 2009).
• I think that our field should move to journal, rather than conference publication; here is why.
• Reviewer for: EMNLP 2009 (Singapore), SEPLN 2009 (Donostia, Spain), NODALIDA 2009 (Odense, Denmark), EACL 2009 (Athens, Greece).

2008

• Co-organiser of the Coling 2008 workshop on human judgements in Computational Linguistics.
• Organiser of the reading group on Computational Semantics at UPC. (continuedly through 2009 and 2010).
• Reviewer for: Language Resources and Evaluation journal, Corpora journal, ACL 2008 (Columbus, Ohio, USA), ESSLLI 2008 Distributional Lexical Semantics Workshop (Hamburg, Germany).

2007 and before

• Research visits at CoLi in Saarbrücken (May-July 2003, November-December 2004).
• Organiser, GLiCom's seminar on Computational Linguistics (several years).
• Reviewer for: Student Research Workshop at ACL 2007 (Prague, Czech Republic), Workshop on Contextual Information in Semantic Space Models (CoSMo 2007): Beyond Words and Documents (Roskilde University, Denmark), Student Research Workshop at EACL 2006 (Trento, Italy), Penn Linguistics Colloquium (2005, 2006).