Vanessa Lopez           

Invited events:

• Invited Speaker at Knowledge Connexions, 2020: Protecting vital public health programs with AI and Knowledge Graphs
• Invited Speaker at Sheffield university, 2019: Extracting Actionable Knowledge from Healtcare policies
• Invited Industry Panelist at ISWC 2019: PANEL title: “Semantic Technologies: a Chat with Industry”
• Invited Speaker at LD4IE at ISWC 2017: Capturing Social and Clinical Knowledge for Personalised Care [slides]
• Invited speaker Cognitive Computing Foundation Course  - Watson Innovation Course at VU Amsterdam 2017 
• Invited tutor at 2017 The 2017 Web Intelligence Summer School [slides]
• Global Young Scientists Summit GYSS@one-north in Singapore. A multi-disciplinary summit, gathering researchers with eminent international science and technology leaders, who are recipients of the Nobel Prize, Fields Medal, Millennium Technology Prize, Turing Award and IEEE Medal of Honour. Our poster: Citizen-Centric Smarter Care at gyss@one-north (Internal Blog)

Organizer:

• Co-chair Industry Track ESWC 2019
• Co-chair Industry Track ISWC 2018
• Co-editor special issue in the International Semantic Web Journal on knowledge graph construction, management and querying.
• Chair of the Smart Cities, Urban and Geospatial Data Track at ESWC 2016
• Chair of the In Use and Industrial track at ESWC 2015.
• QALD-6: sixth Open Challenge on Question Answering over Linked Data, collocated at ESWC 2016 challenges
• QALD-5:Fifth Open Challenge on Question Answering over Linked Data, collocated with CLEF 2015. Philipp Cimiano, Vanessa Lopez, Christina Unger, Elena Cabrio, Axel Ngonga, Sebastian Walter, Corina Forascu.
• QALD-4: Fourth Benchmarking Campaign on Question Answering over Linked Data, collocated with CLEF 2014 . Tasks: (1)Multilingual QA over DBpedia, (2)Biomedical QA over linked data and (3)Hybrid QA. Vanessa Lopez, Philipp Cimiano, Christina Unger, Elena Cabrio, Axel Ngonga, et al.
• Tutorial City Search: An evolution of search to incorporate city data . Veli Bicer and Vanessa Lopez. Search Solutions 2013 at BCS IRSG, Covent Garden, London
• First tutorial on Searching in the city of Knowledge at SIGIR 2013 Searching on the city of Knowledge
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• Poster and Demo session chair at the Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2013 .
• QALD-3: CLEF 2013 lab Evaluation Campaign on Multilingual Question Answering over Linked Data, CLEF 2013.
• 2nd Workshop on Interacting with Linked Data (ILD-2) and the 2nd evaluation challenge on Question Answering over Linked Data, held at the Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2012.
• 1st Workshop on Question Answering over Linked Data (QALD-1) and the 1st evaluation challenge on Question Answering over Linked Data, held at the Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2011.

Senior Program Committee:

• ECAI 2020
• ISWC 2020, ISWC 2017, ISWC 2016
  
• The Web Conference 2018, 2020, 2021

Advisory and Editorial Board:

• Advisory board member for the Marie Curie – European Joint Doctoral Programme in Law, Science, and technology : https://last-jd-rioe.eu/
• Advisory Board member for WDAqua (Answering Questions using Web Data): a Marie-Curie Innovative Training Network (ITN)
• Advisory board member for sciroc.eu 
• Editorial Board (EB) of the Journal of Web Semantics (JWS).
• Editorial Board special issue on visualisation and interaction for ontologies - JWS 2017

Member of Program Committee:

• ISWC 2020, CIKM 2020
• ESWC 2019, ISWC 2019, semantics 2019, The Web conference 2019
• ESWC 2018, QuWeDa 2018, ISWC 2018, LDL 2018, LREC 2018
• WWW 2017, Semantics 2017, LDK 2017, HT 2017, ESWC 17, ISWC in use, QuWeDa 2017, QALD 2017.
  
• Semantics 2016, Hypertext 2016, IUI Posters and Demo 2016, LDL workshop at LREC'16, Q4APS at WWW'16
• The 29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-15), The 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT 2015), The 11th International Conference on Semantic Systems (Semantics 2015), The 14th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2015), The 38th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference Demo Track (SIGIR 2015), The 8th International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2015), The 2nd Natural Language Interfaces for Web of Data (NLIWoD workshop at ISWC 2015)
• The 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014), The Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2014), The 25th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT 2014), The 10th International Conference on Semantic Systems (Semantics 2014), Linked Data for Knowledge Discovery (ECML PKDD 2014), LD4IE Linked Data for Information Extraction (ISWC 2013 Workshop)
• The 12th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2013), The 24rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT 2013), The 7th International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2013), In-Use and Industrial track of the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2013), The Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2013), The 9th International Conference on Semantic Systems (I-Semantics 2013).
• 23rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT 2012), Demo and Poster session at the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2012), The Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2012), The 1st International Workshop on Multimodal Crowd Sensing at the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012, CrowdSens' 2012), The 18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2012), International Conference on Semantic Systems (I-Semantics 2012), 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012).
• International Conference on Semantic Systems (I-Semantics 2011), The Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence Conference (CAEPIA 2011), 2nd Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web at the International Semantic Web Conference 2011, Natural Language Processing Track at the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2011), Demo and Poster session at the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010), Natural Language Interfaces to Databases (NLDB 2008).

Reviewer:

• Ocasional reviewer for various journals: Semantic Web Journal (SWJ) Journal of Web Semantics (JWS), Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), Journal of Information Science, (JIS), Information Processing letters (IPL), Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI), Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), International Journal of Human Computer Studies (IJHCS), ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems special issue (TIIS), Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS), Journal of Knowledge Base Systems (KNOSYS), Information Technology Journal (IT).