Program Committees:

1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

2009

• Member of the program commitee of EACL 2009 in the area: "Lexicon, lexical databases, language resources, ontologies", Athens, Greece, March 30 - April 3, 2009.

2008

• Member of the program committee of of the Fifth International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems FOIS 2008, Saarbrucken, Germany, October 31 - November 3, 2008.
• Member of the organizing and program committee of The Second International Workshop on Intercultural Collaboration (IWIC 2008), venue to be finalized, 2008.
• Member of the program committee of COLING 2008, Manchester, August 18-22, 2008
• Member of the organizing and program committee of "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.
• Member of the program committee of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2008, Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 15-20, 2008.
• Member of the scientific committee of LREC 2008, Marrakech, Turkey, May 26-June 1, 2008.
• Member of the organizing and program committee of the Ontolex workshop at LREC 2008, Marrakech, Turkey, May 31, 2008.
• Member of the organizing and program committee of the 4th Global Wordnet Conference, Szeged, Hungary, January 22-25, 2008
• Member of the program commitee of ICGL 2008, the First International Conference on Global Interoperability for Language Resources, Hong Kong, January 9-12, 2008

2007

• Member of the program committee of the on the 3rd Language & Technology Conference LTC'07: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics, Poznan, Poland, October 5-7, 2007.
• Member of the organizing and program committee of the L&TC WordNet Special Track at the 3rd Language & Technology Conference LTC'07: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics, Poznan, Poland, October 5-7, 2007.
• Member of the program committee of the RANLP 2007, Borovets, Bulgaria, 27-29 September 2007.
• Member of the program committee of the Workshop Acquisition and Management of Multilingual Lexicons (AMML'2007) held at RANLP 2007. Borovets, Bulgaria, 26 September 2007.
• Member of the program committee of the ACL 2007, Prague, Czech Republic, June 23-30, 2007.
• Member of the organizing and program committee 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 2007, Prague, Czech Republic, June 23-30, 2007.
• Member of the program committee of the EMNLP-CoNLL 2007, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (joint meeting following ACL 2007), Prague, Czech Republic, June 28-30, 2007.
• Member of the organizing and program committee of the "African Languages WordNet Workshop/Training" of the Department of African Languages of the University of South Africa, Unisa), Pretoria, South Africa, March 19-23, 2007.
• Member of the organizing and program Committee of the The First International Workshop on Intercultural Collaboration (IWIC 2007), Kyoto, Japan, January 25-26, 2007.

2006

• Member of the program committee for the COLING/ACL 2006 Conference, Sydney, Australia, July 17-21, 2006.
• Member of the scientific committee for the 5th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation LREC2006, Genoa, Italy, May 22-28, 2006.
• Member of the program committee of the Workshop "Lexicon, lexical databases, ontologies, language resources" at the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), April 3-7, 2006, Trento, Italy.
• Member of the organizing and program committee of the 3rd Global Wordnet Conference, Jeju Island, Korea, January, 22-26, 2006

2005

• Member of the program committee of RANLP 2005, September 21-23, 2005, Borovets, Bulgaria.
• Member of the program committee of the 2nd Workshop organized by the MEANING Project, February 3-4, 2005, Trento, Italy

2004

• Member of the program committee of Coling 2004, August 2004, Geneva.
• Member of the organizing and program committee of the 2nd Global Wordnet Conference, January 2004, Brno, Czech.
• Member of the scientific committee of LREC 2004, May 2004.
• Member of the program committee of First Workshop on International Proofing Tools and Language Technologies in Patras, Greece, June 2004.

2003

• Member of the programm committee of the 1st MEANING Workshop on Word Sense Disambiguation and Lexical Acquisition, Donostia, Basque Country, April 11-12, 2003
• Member of the program committee of GL2003: 2nd International Workshop on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, 15-17 May 2003.
• Member of the program committee of International Conference RANLP03 (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing), Borovets, Bulgaria, 10-12 September 2003.

2002

• Member of the program committee of Coling 2002, Area Computational Lexicons.
• Member of the program and organizing committee of the 1st Global Wordnet Conference, Bangalore, India (report).
• Member of the program committee of Coling 2002 workshop Building and Using Semantic Networks, COLING 2002, Taipei, Taiwan, 1 September 2002.
• Member of the program committee of Workshop LREC 2002: Ontologies and Lexical Knowledge Bases, Las Palmas, Canary Islands - Spain, 27-28 May 2002.
• Member of the program committee of LREC 2002 Workshop on WordNet Structures and Applications for the Lesser-Studied Languages (WSA).
• Member of the program committee of LREC 2002 Workshop on Wordnet Structures and Standardization and how these affect Wordnet Applications and Evaluation (report)
• Member of the program committee of LREC 2002 Workshop Customizing Knowledge in NLP Applications: Strategies, Issues and Evaluation.
• Member of the program committee of Workshop on Using semantics for information retrieval and filtering, state of the art and future research" at LREC 2002, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, 29 May - 2 June 2002.
• Member of the program committee of OntoLex02
• Member of the program committee of NLP symposium called SNLP-2002, as a member of the International Advisory Committee, Thailand.

2001

• Member of the program committee of the ACL Panel Global Wordnet, Standardizing and Linking wordnets with particular attention to Word Sense Inventory, Representation, and Distinction, EACL/ACL Panel,July 2001.
• Member of the Senseval-2 program committee
• Member of the program committee for the NAACL workshop WordNet and Other Lexical Resources: Applications, Extensions and Customizations, Pittsburg, June 2001.
• Member of the program committee ESSLLI 2001 workshop on Semantic Knowledge Acquisition and Categorization.
• Member of the program committee FOIS-2001, International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems, (http://www.fois.org), Ogunquit, Maine, 17-19 October 2001,
• Member of the program committee of NLPRS 2001, 6th Natural Language Processing, Pacific Rim Symposium, National Center of Science, Tokyo, Japan, 27 - 29 November, 2001.
• Member of the program committee of RANLP 2001.
• Member of the program committee of ACL Panel: Senseval domain specific sense disambiguation, ACL 2001, Toulouse, EACL/ACL Panel, Friday, 6 July 2001.

2000

• Referent for NAANLP 2000.
• Referent for ACL 2000.

1999

• Member of the program committee of ELDA project proposals.
• Member of the program committee of ACL Siglex workhop, University of Pittsburgh, May 1999.

1998

• Referent for the ACL/Coling-98 workshop The Computational Treatment of Nominals. Organised by Federica Busa (Brandeis University), Inderjeet Mani (The MITRE Corporation), Patrick Saint Dizier (IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier)