2012
- Invited Lecture Course "Wordnets: semantic networks of words and concepts and their application in natural language processing" for PhD-researchers and 2nd research master students at LOT Winterschool 2012. The lectures on EuroWordNet (Vossen e.a.), WordNet (Miller e.a) and GlobalWordNet (Vossen e.a.) will focus on the semantic networks of words and concepts and their application in natural language processing. The course will provide background information on wordnets and discuss many issues involved in building wordnets, comparing wordnets and using them in NLP applications. Tilburg University, Tilburg, January 9-20, 2012.
2011
- Invited Guest lecture on "Wordnet", Master cursus Knowledge & Media, Faculty of Sciences (FEW), VU University Amsterdam, November 7, 2011.
- Lecture Course Masters (with Dr. H.D. van der Vliet, Drs. I. Maks, Drs. R. Seegers) "Introduction to the Computational Lexicon", Faculty of Sciences (Artifical Intelligence) and Faculty of Arts, VU University Amsterdam, February - June, 2011.
- Invited Lecture Course "Wordnets: semantic networks of words and concepts and their application in natural language processing" for PhD-researchers and 2nd research master students at LOT Winterschool 2011. The lectures on EuroWordNet (Vossen e.a.), WordNet (Miller e.a) and GlobalWordNet (Vossen e.a.) will focus on the semantic networks of words and concepts and their application in natural language processing. The course will provide background information on wordnets and discuss many issues involved in building wordnets, comparing wordnets and using them in NLP applications. Amsterdam, January 10-14, 2011.
2010
- Invited speaker on "Semantics of History" at the CATCH meeting "Finding, Linking and Organizing Sources for Media Research", organized by "Bridge", October 22, 2010, Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
- Invited speaker at forum discussion on "Bijdrage van ICT aan bronnenonderzoek in humaniora", VU University Amsterdam, June 9, 2010.
- Invited speaker on "Kyoto" at the Semantic Web Meeting, VUA Amsterdam, the Netherlands, February 15, 2010.
- Lecture Course Masters (with Dr. H.D. van der Vliet) Introduction to the Computational Lexicon, Faculty of Sciences (Artifical Intelligence) and Faculty of Arts, VU University Amsterdam, February - June, 2010.
2009
- Invited Keynote Speaker on "Kyoto" at the 25th Annual Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing 2009 (SEPLN´09), San Sebastian, Spain, September 8-10, 2009
- Invited Keynote Speaker on "Kyoto" at the Asian Language Resource Summit (ALRS), Phuket, Thailand, March 20-21, 2009
- Presentation on "The Semantics of History", Seminar over Semantisch Netwerk Technologie, VU University Amsterdam, January 22, 2009
2008
- Guest Lecture for the ICT Onderwijscentrum of the Vrije University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, December 10, 2007
- Invited speaker at workshop HLT Collaboration between South Africa and the Low Lands, MonkeyValley, South Africa, November 24-25, 2008
- Invited speaker at VKS / KNAW-workshop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 14, 2008
- Invited speaker at LCC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, October 9, 2008
- Presentation on Cornetto at the Stevin Programmadag, Nederlandse TaalUnie, Hoeven, the Netherlands, September 21, 2008.
- Keynote speaker on Kyoto at DART 2008: 2nd Workshop on Distributed Agent-based Retrieval Tools, Cagliari, Italy, 10 September 2008
- Presentation on KYOTO: "A System for Mining, Structuring and Distributing Knowledge Across Languages and Cultures" at LREC 2008, May 28-30, 2009, Marrakech, Morocco.
2007
- Invited Speaker on Global Wordnet Grid on the 6th International PLAIN Language Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 11-14, 2007,
- Invited 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, Ed. Wydawnictwo Poznanskie Sp. z o. o., ISBN ISBN 978-83-7177-407-2.
- Invited Speaker on the Stevin Programmadag, Nederlandse TaalUnie, Hoeven, September 21, 2007
- 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 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.
- 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.
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
< 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.