| FEB 2010 | To present a talk entitled "Automatically Structuring the Unstructurable: Turning Textual Information Into Machine-Understandable Data" at the Centre for Water Research (CWR), University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. |
| 28 AUG 2009 | Presented a talk entitled "Learning Lightweight Ontologies from Text across Different Domains using the Web as Background Knowledge" (PhD defense seminar) at the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSSE), University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. |
| 9 DEC 2008 | Presented a paper entitled "Extracting and Analysing Social Networks of Physicians" at the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Workshop on Computational Social Networks (IWCSN), Sydney, Australia. |
| 2-5 DEC 2008 | Presented a paper entitled "Constructing Web Corpora through Topical Web Partitioning for Term Recognition" at the 21st Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Auckland, New Zealand. |
| 25 NOV - 2 DEC 2008 | Visited the Department of Information Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Presented a talk entitled "Discovering TermClouds and Lightweight Ontologies using the Web for Information Skimming and Exploration". |
| 4 NOV 2008 | Presented a paper entitled "Discovering Lightweight Ontologies using the Web" at the 9th Postgraduate Electrical & Computer Enginneering Symposium (PEECS), Perth, Australia. |
| 12-13 JUN 2008 | Presented a talk entitled "Discovering Lightweight Domain Ontologies using the Web" during the 16th UWA School of Computer Science & Software Engineering Research Conference, Yanchep, Australia. |
| 7-12 JAN 2008 | Presented a paper entitled "Determining the Unithood of Word Sequences through a Probabilistic Approach" at the 3rd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), Hyderabad, India. |
| 19-21 SEP 2007 | Presented a paper entitled "Determining the Unithood of Word Sequences using Mutual Information and Independence Measure" at the Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING), Melbourne, Australia. |
| 16 FEB 2007 | Presented a talk entitled "Ontology Maintenance in a Knowledge-based Question Answering Environment" (confirmation of PhD candidature) at the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSSE), University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. |
| 29 NOV - 1 DEC 2006 | Presented a paper entitled "Integrated Scoring for Spelling Error Correction, Abbreviation Expansion and Case Restoration in Dirty Text" at the 5th Australasian Conference on Data Mining (AusDM), Sydney, Australia. |
| 1-2 NOV 2006 | Presented a talk entitled "Initial Stages of Ontology Engineering: Dirty Texts Cleaning and Terms Clustering" during the 15th UWA School of Computer Science & Software Engineering Research Conference, Yanchep, Australia. |
| 9 JUN 2006 | Presented a talk on the topic of Ontology Learning (PhD research proposal) at the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSSE), University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. |
| 19-22 SEP 2005 | Presented a paper entitled "Evaluation of Response Quality for Heterogeneous Question Answering Systems" at the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI), the University of Technology of Compiegne, France. |
| 28-30 JUN 2004 | Presented a paper entitled "Online Cyberlaw Knowledge Base Construction using Semantic Network" at the IASTED International Conference on Applied Simulation and Modeling (ASM), Rhodes, Greece. |
| 20-21 MAY 2003 | Presented a paper entitled "Agent-Assisted Multimedia Object Extraction & Management System" at the Advanced Technology Congress Conference on Computer Integrated System (ConCis), Putrajaya, Malaysia. |
