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2008

• Keynote speaker on Kyoto at DART 2008: 2nd Workshop on Distributed Agent-based Retrieval Tools, 10 September 2008, Cagliari, Italy

• Panel on Lexical Units Compounds as Words at the Fourth International GlobalWordNet Conference - GWC 2008, Szeged, Hungary, January 22-25, 2008

2007

• Guest Lecture on Corpusgebaseerd tekstonderzoek voor het ICT Onderwijscentrum van de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, December 13, 2007.

• Guest Lecture on Corpus-based Methods: "Automatic term extraction from domain corpora", Universiteit Nijmegen, November 26, 2007

• Invited speaker on Taal, Intelligentie en Betekenis" on the Lustrum symposium Kunstmatige Intelligentie, Ontwikkelingen en Toepassingen in Muziek, Taal en Geneeskunde" van het Genootschap Physica, Alkmaar, October 27, 2007

• Invited Speaker on Global Wordnet Grid on the 6th International PLAIN Language Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 11-14, 2007,

• Invited speaker on Global Wordnet Grid at the Politechnika Koszalinska, Koszalin, Poland, October 8, 2007.

• Keynote Speaker on Global WordNet at the 3rd Language & Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics, Poznan, Poland, October 5-7, 2007,

• Invited Speaker on the Stevin Programmadag, Nederlandse TaalUnie, Hoeven, September 21,

• Invited speaker on "Cornetto: Een Combinatorische Semantische Database voor het Nederlands" for the Capita Selecta of the Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie (INL), Leiden, May 22, 2007.

• Invited speaker on Global WordNet and Global WordNet Grid at the University of Potchefstroom, South Africa, March 19, 2007.

• Invited speaker on Cornetto and Wordnets at the University of Potchefstroom, South Africa, March 20, 2007.

• Invited speaker at the "African Languages WordNet Workshop/Training" of the Department African Languages of the University of South Africa, Unisa), Pretoria, South Africa, March 21-23, 2007.

• Invited speaker on "Connecting the Universal to the Specific: Towards the Global Grid", at the The First International Workshop on Intercultural Collaboration (IWIC 2007), Kyoto, Japan, January 25-26, 2007.

• Presentation on "The design of the Cornetto Database", In: Proceedings of CLIN 17, Centre for Computational Linguistics, Faculty of Arts of the University of Leuven, January 12, 2007

2006

• Presentation on "Er kan meer dan men doet met de Cornetto Database" at the TST-dag, Rotterdam, November 30, 2006.

• Presentation on Cornetto at the Stevin Programmadag, Antwerpen, September 11, 2006.

• Invited speaker: Lexical ambiguity within an application perspective at the Language Technology and Resources Colloquium of the The Department of Language and Speech, Radboud University Nijmegen, June 6, 2006.

• Invited speaker: Communicative evolution: from strings to words to expressions to concepts to intentions at the ICT-Kenniscongres 2006, Amsterdam, RAI, April 10 and 11, 2006.

2005

• Invited speaker: Demo on the search engine of Irion at the CLIN dag : CLIN 2005: The 16th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands, Amsterdam, December 16, 2005.

• Invited speaker: "Building Wordnets", International Seminar on Wordnets in general and DanNet: a Danish WordNet, based on the Princeton WordNet and EuroWordNet, University of Kopenhagen, Denmark, 13 October 2005.

• Invited speaker: Kickoff-meeting of a new project "Constructing Arabic Wordnet in Parallel with an Ontology", University of Princeton, USA, August 30-September 5, 2005.

• Videopresentation on "Het RBN als lexicon in een classificatiesysteem" for the TST-dag, Antwerpen, July 4, 2005.

• Invited speaker: "A centralized approach to language resources",, Multilinguism Meeting EU, Luxembourg, June 6, 2005.

• Invited speaker: "Crossing the chasm between statistic processing and language understanding", University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, May 19, 2005.

• Invited speaker: Wat wil de industrie van de kennisinfrastructuur?, Tweede brokerage event - Domein Taaltechnologie: "Taal- en spraaktechnologie en de ICT-markt, Nederlandse Taalunie, Antwerpen, 2 maart 2005.

• Invited speaker: Meaning-2 for the 5th EU Call IST 2005-2006 Work Programme 2.5.7 Multimodal Interfaces, Luxembourg, February 28, 2005.

2004

• Invited speaker: Cornetto: a Combinatoric and relational network for language technology", International Colloquium on "Word structure and lexical systems: models and applications", University of Pavia, Italy, 16-17 December 2004.

• Invited speaker: Wordnets for Information Retrieval: a hole in one, organizer: Omnipaper, Leuven. Belgium, 2 december 2004.

• Invited speaker: Interactieve Workshop Taal & Spraak, Senter, The Hague, The Netherlands, 15 september 2004.

• Invited speaker: Search Engine Meeting, The Hague, The Netherlands, 19-20 April 2004.

2003

• Invited speaker Wordnet, EuroWordNet and Global Wordnet at Dublin University College Ireland, March 22, 2003.

• Inivited speaker: Senter, Zwolle

• Tutorial Wordnet, EuroWordNet and Global Wordnet, International Conference RANLP-2003 (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing), Borovets, Bulgaria, 10-12 September 2003.

2002

• Invited Speaker Content for content. XVIII Conference of SEPLN in Valladolid, Spain. 11-13 September 2002

2001

• Invited Speaker "Tuning Document-Based Hierarchies with Generative Principles at the ISSCO workshop on the generative lexicon, Geneva, April 2001 (ISSCO)

• Invited Speaker WordNet, EuroWordNet and Global Wordnet at the `Computing with Logic, Language, and Information' Seminar. Institute for Logic, Language and Computation University of Amsterdam (ILLC)

• Invited Speaker Multilingual Language Technology as a Commercial Business , SPINN seminar, Kopenhagen, Denmark, 26 -27 October 2001.

2000

• Invited Speaker for the SNLP 2000 Conference in Chiang Mai, Thailand, May 2000.

• Invited Speaker for the International Symposium Computational Linguistics for the New Millennium: Divergence or Synergy?" Heidelberg, 21-22 July 2000.

< 2000

• Course on the use of Wordnets in NLP at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam, 1999.

• Lecture on Functional Lexicology at the Amsterdam Summer School, University of Amsterdam, 1992.