Awards
- Best PhD Student Paper Award in the 1st WSEAS International Symposium on Digital Libraries (co-author). Corfu Island, Greece, August, 2005.
- Outstanding Student Presentation Award for the Best PhD Student Paper. In the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education 2004. London, UK, June, 2004.
Fellowships and research visits
- Visiting Fellow, Centre for Language Technology, Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. March-November, 2008.
- Visiting Researcher, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Split, Croatia. January-March, October-December, 2006. March-June, 2007
- Visiting Researcher, Human Language Technologies Research Group, African Advanced Institute for Information & Communications Technology (Meraka Institute), Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Pretoria, South Africa. September-December, 2005.
- Research Fellow, MULTILINGUA, Marie Curie Early Stage Research Training Site, University of Bergen, Norway. January-April, 2005.
Professional service
- Executive Peer-Reviewer, Journal of Educational Technology & Society, 2007-present.
- Guest Reviewer, Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, 2009.
- Guest Reviewer, The Computer Journal, 2009.
- Member of Program Committee, The 10th European Conference on e-Learning (ECEL), 2010.
- Member of Review Committee, The 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2010.
- Member of Review Committee, The 9th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2009.
- Member of Review Committee, The 8th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2008.
- Member of Program Committee, IADIS International Conference E-Learning (eL2008), 2008.
- Session Chair, The 16th International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE), 2008.
Professional society memberships
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Northern European Association for Language Technology
- International Artificial Intelligence in Education Society