Advisory & Research Committees

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

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

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

• 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: Member of the scientitic committee of LREC 2010, Malta, May 19-21, 2010.

• 2010: Conference Chair and member of the Scientific Committee of the 5th Global Wordnet Conference, Mumbai, India, January 21-February 4, 2010.

• 2010: Member of the Committee of the SemEval-2010: 5th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations on Kyoto's subtask WSD17: All-words Word Sense Disambiguation on a Specific Domain.

• 2009: Chair of the Advisory Committee ERC Grants for VU University Amsterdam.

• 2009: Member of the committee for the Nederlandse TaalUnie to revise the Referentie Bestand Nederlands.

• 2008-2011: Member of FLaReNet (Fostering Language Resources Network), 7th EU Framework Project.

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

• 2009: Member of the Scientific Committee of the Third International Workshop on Distributed Agent-based Retrieval Tools (DART'09), that will be co-located with WI'09 and IAT'09, Milan, Italy, September 15, 2009.

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

• 2004 - 2009: Member of the Research Committee STEVIN (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.

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

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

• 2006: Member of the Scientific Committee for the 5th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation LREC 2006.

• 2006: Expert reviewer for the European Union.

• 2004: Member of the Scientific Committee for the 4th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation LREC 2004

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

• 2001 - 2003: Member of the EACL-board

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

• January 2000 - 2003: Expert consultant for Corpus Gesproken Nederlands.

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

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

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

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

• May 1997 - September 1999: Member of the Eagles Lexicon Interest Group. In this group we were developing Standards for encoding Lexical Semantic Information for Natural Language Processing products. Co-editor of the Preliminary Recommendations on Semantic Encodingh (report).

• May 1996 -February 1998: Coordinator of the Dutch-Functional Grammar group in which a group of linguists from the research school IFOTT (now called ACLC), were developing a discourse grammar for Dutch based on Functional Grammar.

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

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

• June 1992 - September 1994: Freelance consultant for Cambridge University Press and Van Dale Lexicography to set up lexical semantic databases.

• January 1990 - April 1994: Member of LIKE (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.