Member of the 1992 and 1996 HEFC/E Research Assessment Exercise Panels for Computer Science.
Member of the EPSRC Computing College, 1995-.
Member of the ESRC MPLE College, 1997-.
Member of Section C Standing Committee, British Academy , 1995-98.
Chair, first EPSRC Computing College panel to review responsive grant applications, 1995.
External examiner, MPhil in Computer Speech and Language, Cambridge, 1994-97.
Member of the JISC Advisory Committee on Networking, 1991-96.
Chairman of the Joint Research Council Initiative in Cognitive Science and Human Computer Interaction Committee, 1991-96 [committee member 1988-96].
Member of the Steering Panel for the ESRC Cognitive Engineering Initiative, 1995-99.
Member of the Commissioning Panel for the ESRC Cognitive Engineering Initiative, 1995.
Member of the ESRC Research Resources Board, 1992-93.
Member of the ESRC Resource Centres Panel, 1992-93.
Member of the ESRC Research Resources Advisory Group, 1989-92.
Member of the ESRC ``Analysis of Large and Complex Datasets'' Initiative Panel, 1992-93.
Member of the ESRC Human Behaviour and Development Research Development Group, 1989-92.
Coordinator of ESRC Stage I and II bids on ``Interaction Mediated by New Technology'', 1991-92 (included convening two one-day workshops).
Member of the ESRC ``Information Resource Management'' Group, 1991.
Member of the ESRC Training Board Sub-Group on Research Training in Cognitive Science, Education, Linguistics and Psychology, 1990.
ESRC Representative on the Edinburgh HCRC Advisory Committee, 1989-99.
External member of the appointing committee for Director of the ESRC IRC in Human Communication (HCRC ) at the University of Edinburgh, 1989.
Member of the ESRC Panel on the IRC in Human Communication, June 1988.
Member of Section Sixteen's Sub-Committee, British Academy , 1989-91.
Honorary Secretary, LAGB , 1980-84.
Assistant Secretary, LAGB ,1977-80.
Member of the Council of the Philological Society, 1982-84.
LAGB representative on the British National Committee for Linguistics, 1980-84.
Member of the Nominations Committee, Association for Computational Linguistics - European Chapter (EACL ), 1982-89.
Co-convenor, international workshop on inheritance in NLP, University of Tilburg, August 1990.
Convenor, tutorial workshop on GPSG, Spring Meeting of the LAGB , University of Sheffield, March 1983.
Co-convenor, GPSG seminar, University College London, September 1981.
Convenor, workshop on Syntax, Morphology and Parsing, University of Sussex, July 1980.
Co-convenor, SSRC-funded workshop on Base Generation, Semantic Interpretation, and Interpretive Filtering: the Case of Comparatives, University of Sussex, July 1979.
