Organized Conferences & Workshops:

2008

• Organizer of the Workshop on "Linguistic Studies of Ontology: From Lexical Semantics to Formal Ontologies and Back" at the 18th International Congress of Linguists (CIL18), Seoul, Republic of Korea, July 21-26, 2008.

• Organizer of the Ontolex workshop at LREC 2008, May 31, 2008, Marrakech, Turkey

• Organizer of the DutchSemCor Workshop, Vrije University Amsterdam, May 16, 2008.

• Organizer of the The Second International Workshop on Intercultural Collaboration (IWIC 2008), venue to be finalized, 2008.

• Organizer of the 4th Global Wordnet Conference, Szeged, Hungary, January 22-25,2008

2007

• Organizer of the workshop on L&TC WordNet Special Track :the development of new WordNets, related tools and WordNet applications in AI, during the 3rd Language & Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics. October 5-7, 2007, Poznan, Poland.

• Organizer of the workshop on Evaluating WSD on Cross-Language Information Retrieval on Sem-Eval 2007, the 4th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations, during the ACL, Prague, Czech Republic, June 23-30, 2007.

• Organizer of the Cornetto workshop, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, June 7, 2007.

• Organizer of the the "African Languages WordNet Workshop/Training" for the Department African Languages of the University of South Africa, Unisa, Pretoria, South Africa, March 19-23, 2007.

• Organizer of the The First International Workshop on Intercultural Collaboration (IWIC 2007), Kyoto, Japan, January 25-26, 2007.

2006

• Organizer of the 3nd International Global Wordnet Conference, Jeju Island, South Jeju (Seogwipo), Korea, January 22-26, 2006.

2005

• Organizer of the 2nd Workshop on the MEANING Project, February 3-4, 2005, Trento, Italy

2004

• Organizer of the 2nd International Global Wordnet Conference, Brno, Czech, 20-23 January 2004.

2002

• Organizer of the 1st International Global Wordnet Conference, Mysore, India, 19-23 January 2002.

2001

• Organizer and panelist of the ACL Panel Global Wordnet, Standardizing and Linking wordnets with particular attention to Word Sense Inventory, Representation, and Distinction, EACL/ACL Panel, 6 July 2001.

• Panelist on ACL Panel Senseval domain specific sense disambiguation, ACL 2001, Toulouse, EACL/ACL Panel, 6 July 2001.

1998

• Member of the organizing committee and attendant of the Ontology Standards workshop at Heidelberg, on behalf of the Ansi-committee on Ontology Standards. Heidelberg, Germany.

1997

• Coordinator and chair of the ACL/EACL-97 workshop: Automatic Information Extraction and Building of Lexical Semantic Resources for NLP Applications, Madrid, 12 July 1997.

1992

• Member of the organizing committee of the 6th Euralex International Conference on Lexicography in Amsterdam, August 1994.