Advisory & Research Committees of Prof. Piek Th.J.M. Vossen

• Global WordNet Association: Co-Founder and Co-President, ongoing from 2000.

• 7th Global Wordnet Conference: Conference Chair, Organizer and President, January 25-29, 2014, Tartu, Estonia.

• Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen, invited member, ongoing from 2012.

• The Network Institute: invited member of TNI, part of the VU University Amsterdam which carries out three interdisciplinary research programmes focused on themes of prime societal relevance: The Connected World, Web and e-Science, and Centre for Organization Studies, ongoing from 2011.

• Human Language Technologies (HLT)-Committee: invited member, responsible for the further development of the 'HLT collabaration between South Africa and the Nederlandse Taalunie, ongoing from 2012.

• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Ontology-Lexica Community Group: Invited member, ongoing from 2011.

• CAMeRA: Member of the Management Team in charge of scientific research of CAMeRA: the Interfaculty research institute of the VU University Amsterdam. CAMeRA consists of 4 participating faculties and research groups i.e. Sociology, Computer Science, Clininal Psychology and Language & Communcation, ongoing from 2009.

• Taalbank Nederlands (GTB) of the Institute of Dutch Lexicography (INL): Member of the Advisory Board, ongoing from 2009.

• European Union: Expert reviewer for the ICT Call 9, Objective 8.2, ICT for access to Cultural Heritage, 2012

• European Union: Expert reviewer in the area of Language Technology and Machine Translation for the project Organic.Lingua: Demonstrating the potential of a multilingual web portal for Sustainable Agricultural & Environmental Education, 2012-2015.

• 6th Global Wordnet Conference: Conference Chair, Organizer and President, January 9-13, 2012, Matsue, Japan.

• Nederlandse TaalUnie: Member of the committee to revise the Referentie Bestand Nederlands.

• European Union: Expert reviewer for the SME-DCL call, 2011.

• LOT (Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap): Member of the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, ongoing from 2009.

• Member of the NWO National committe for the NWO-Veni-fund Humanities, 2010.

• Member of the NWO national committee for the NWO-AiO-fund Humanities.2010.

• Member of the VU-Humanities committee (Arts, Theology & Philosophy) for the NWO-AiO-fund Humanities, 2010.

• 5th Global Wordnet Conference: Conference Chair, Organizer and President, Mumbai, India, January 21-February 4, 2010.

• ERC Grants: Chair of the Advisory Committee for VU University Amsterdam, 2010.

• FLaReNet: Projectmember, 2008-2011.

• CLARIN-NL: Member of the National Advisory Panel, 2008-2012

• CAMeRA: Member of the Research Center for Advanced Media Research Amsterdam , VU University Amsterdam, 2008-2009.

• STEVIN : Member of the Research Committee (Spraak-en Taaltechnologische Essentiële Voorzieningen In het Nederlands); een Vlaams/Nederlands meerjarenprogramma voor Nederlandstalige taal- en spraaktechnologie door SenterNovem in samenwerking met de Nederlandse Taalunie, NWO, AWI, FWO en IWT, 2004 - 2009.

• Arabic WordNet: Expert consultant for Constructing Arabic Wordnet in Parallel with an Ontology. This project aimed at the development of wordnets for the Arabic languages and was sponsored by the American government and headed by Princeton University. Vossen will be responsible for the European development and coordination, 2005 - 2007.

• 4th Global Wordnet Conference: Conference Chair, Organizer and President, Szeged, Hungary, January 22-25, 2008.

• IMIX: Member of the Program Committee of Interactieve Multimodale Informatie Extractie, NWO, 2002 - 2008.

• 3th Global Wordnet Conference: Conference Chair, Organizer and President, Korea, January 2006.

• BalkaNet: Expert consultant for the EC-project BalkaNet that aimed at the development of wordnets for the Balkan languages, 2002 - 2004.

• 2nd Global Wordnet Conference: Conference Chair, Organizer and President, Brno, Czech Republic, January 20-23, 2004.

• EACL: Member of the board, 2001 - 2003.

• EuroTerm: Expert consultant for the EC-project EuroTerm that aimed at the development of domain extension module for wordnets, 2001 - 2002.

• Corpus Gesproken Nederlands: Expert consultant, 2000 - 2003.

• 1st Global Wordnet Conference: Conference Chair, Organizer and President, Mumbai, India, January 2002.

• Eagles/Isle project: Expert consultant on standardization of multilingual resources for NLP, 2000 - 2002.

• Van Dale: Expert consultant for Van Dale Groot Woordenboek der Nederlandse Taal, CR-ROM edition, 2000.

• Referent for the IFOTT research school for appointing new PhD students, 1998.

• Ansi-committee on Ontology Standards: Member of the committee that aimed to develop a world-wide standard for Ontologies and to provide the upper-level as a public Reference Ontology (c.a. 3,000 concepts), 1997-1999.

• Eagles: Member of the Lexicon Interest Group. This group developed Standards for encoding Lexical Semantic Information for Natural Language Processing products. Co-editor of the Preliminary Recommendations on Semantic Encodingh (report), 1997-1999.

• Dutch-Functional Grammar group: Coordinator of a group of linguists from the research school IFOTT (now called ACLC), who developed a discourse grammar for Dutch based on Functional Grammar, 1996-1998.

• Referent for the IFOTT research school for appointing new PhD students, 1996.

• EU: Expert-consultant in the area of language and information-engineering for the EU (PB/EG nr. C24/10, 28193), 1993-1995.

• Cambridge University Press and Van Dale Lexicography: Freelance consultant on lexical semantic databases, 1992-1994.

• LIKE: Member of Linguistic Instruments in Knowledge Engineering), which was a research group studying information systems based on Linguistic modules and programs. LIKE had regular meetings, workshops and presentations.