Organized conferences/workshops

2023

• Co-organizer of the 12th Global Wordnet Conference (GWC2023) Donostia / San Sebastian, Basque Country January 23-27, 2023.

2022

• Organizer of the HI Panel: Do agents need bodies?, VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands, December 9, 2022.
• Co-organizer of the 5th Meet & Greet CLTL master students and Industry in Gathertown, VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands,  December 1, 2022.
• Area Chair “Reproduction of Research Results in Science and Technology of Language” of the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2022), Marseille, France, June 20-25, 2022.
• Co-organizer of the workshop “Wordnets in the Deep Learning Era” at the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2022), Marseille, France, June 20-25, 2022.
• Chair “Lexicon and WordNet” at the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2022), Marseille, France, June 20-25, 2022.
• Organizer of the Workshop on the Representation, Sharing and Evaluation of Multimodal Agent Interaction (MMAI2022) at the first International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (https://www.hhai-conference.org/workshops/), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 13, 2022.
• LOT Winterschool 2022 at VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands,  January 10-14 and January 17-21, 2022.

2021

• Co-organizer of the 4th Meet & Greet CLTL master students and Industry in Gathertown, VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands,  December 2, 2021.
• Chair and co-organizer of the 11th online Global WordNet Conference (GWC2021), Pretoria, South Africa, January 18-22, 2021. 

2020

• Chair and organizer of the CLTL-Human Language Technology bedrijvendag: Meet and Greet 2020 in Gathertown, VU Universiteit Amsterdam, December 3, 2020.
• Co-organizer of the Shared Task on the Reproduction of Research Results in Science and Technology of Language (REPROLANG2020) @ LREC2020, May 13-15, 2020, Marseille, France.
• Co-organizer of the Multimodal Wordnets Workshop 2020 @ LREC2020, May 13-15, 2020, Marseille, France.

2019

• Chair and organizer of the CLTL-Human Language Technology bedrijvendag: Meet and Greet 2019, VU Universiteit Amsterdam, December 13, 2019.
• Chair and co-organizer of the 10th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2019), Wroclaw, Poland, July 23-27, 2019.

2018

• Co-organizer of the Events and Stories in the News 2018 workshop at the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2018), Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA,  August 20-25, 2018.
• Co-organizer of the workshop “Storyline Coding and Annotation” within the theme Researching Narrative Identities with Small Stories at the Conference Narrative Matters 2018,  July 2, 2018, Enschede, the Netherlands.
• Chair and co-organizer of the KNAW Domeinmiddag Geesteswetenschappen: Nep of niet nep: “De veranderlijke halfwaardetijd van kennis en waarheid, en de poging daar grip op te krijgen”, Amsterdam, June 25, 2018.
• Co-organizer of the  workshop SemEval-2018 Task: Counting Events and Participants in the Long Tail at SemEval-2018, co-located with the 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT 2018). New Orleans, LA, USA, June 5-6 2018.
• Chair and co-organizer of the 9th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2018), Singapore, January 8-12, 2018.

2017

• Chair and co-organizer of the CLTL-Human Language Technology bedrijvendag: meet and greet, VU Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, December 7, 2017.
• Co-organizer of the  Open Knowledge Base and Question Answering Workshop (OKBQA2017) co-located with the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR2017), Tokio, Japan, August 11, 2017.
• Co-organizer of the workshop Events and Stories in the News co-located with the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2017), Vancouver, Canada, August 4, 2017.
• Co-organizer of the workshop “Challenges for Wordnets” co-located with the 1st conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK2017), Galway, Ireland, June 18, 2017.
• Organizer of the NIAS-Lorentz workshop “Language, Knowledge and People in Perspective“, Leiden, the Netherlands, April 18-21, 2017.
• Invited member of the jury (as a member of the KHMW) of the Keetje Hodshon Prijs 2017 of the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (KHMW).

2016

• Co-organizer of the workshop Open Knowledge Base and Question Answering Workshop (OKBQA 2016) at the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING2016), December 11-16, 2016, Osaka, Japan.
• Co-organizer of the 2nd Workshop on Computing News Storylines (CNewsStory-2016), co-located with EMNLP 2016, Austin, Texas, U.S.A. November 2-6, 2016.
• Co-organizer of Unshared task on “Perspective Based Local Agreement and Disagreement in Online Debate” at 3rd Workshop on Argument Mining in conjunction with the Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2016), Berlin, August 12, 2016.
• Section editor of the theme Language and information in the world with Antal van den Bosch at the Summerschool 2016 by Language in Interaction, July 2016.
• Co-organizer of the 2nd Spinoza-workshop “Looking at the Long Tail“, Amsterdam, June 24, 2016.
• Co-organizer of the 7th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA-2016), co-located with the NAACL-HLT 2016 Conference, San Diego, California, June 12-17, 2016
• Chair and co-Organizer of the 8th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2016), Bucharest, Romania, January 27-30, 2016.
• Co-organizer of the NewsReader Hackathon “Car Wars Revisited”, January 8, 2015.

2015

• Co-organizer of the 26th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN26),  Hotel Casa 400, Amsterdam, December 17-18, 2015.
• Co-organizer of the NewsReader Conference, Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam, November 24, 2015.
• Co-organizer of the NewsReader Hackathon, Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam, November 25, 2015.
• Co-organizer of the 6th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2015), co-located with with the EMNLP 2015 Conference, Lissabon, Portugal, September 17, 2015.
• Co-organizer of the 2nd Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Linked Open Data  in conjunction with RANLP2015, Hassar, Bulgaria, September 10, 2015.
• Co-organizer of  a summer school course on “Perspectives on Subjectivity“, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands from July 6-17, 2015.
• Co-organizer of the First Workshop on Computing News Storylines [NewsStory]  in conjunction with ACL-IJCNLP 2015, Beijing, China, July 26-31, 2015.
• Co-organzer of the workshop on the theme of “Biographical Data in a Digital World, Rockstart, Amsterdam, April 9, 2015
• Co-organize of the Textmining Hackathon,  VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, March 19, 2015
• Co-organizer of the KIEM workshop, March 17, 2015
• Co-organizer of the lecture by George Lakoff @ VU University, March 13, 2015
• Co-Organizer of the NewsReader Hackaton, London, United Kingdom, January 30, 2015
• Co-Organizer of the NewsReader Hackaton, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, January 21, 2015

2014

• Co-organizer of the Mini-seminar “Disambiguating entities and their roles in texts based on background knowledge”, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, December 12, 2015
• Co-organizer of the Spinoza kick-off workshop, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, October 17, 2014.
• Co–organizer of NewsReader Ontology Workshop, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 23, 2014.
• Co-organizer of the NewsReader Hackaton, June 10, 2014, London, United Kingdom.
• Co-organizer of the OpeNER Hackaton,  May 26, 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland.
• Co-organizer of the NewsReader workshop, May 14, 2014, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
• Co-organizer and speaker on “Digital Humanities: Hype or Revolution – Part 3: ”Het gezicht van de sociale media“ at Spui25,  Amsterdam, the Netherlands, February 6, 2014.
• Chair and Co-organizer of the 7th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2014), January 25-29, 2014, Tartu, Estonia.
• Co-organizer and speaker on “Digital Humanities: Hype or Revolution – Part 2: ”De Gouden Eeuw: de ontsluiting van een schatkamer aan informatie“at Spui25,  Amsterdam, the Netherlands, January 21, 2014.

2013

• Co-organizer and speaker on “Digital Humanities: Hype or Revolution – Part 1: ”De digitale kaart van Landschap, Architectuur en Verstedelijking“ at Spui25,  Amsterdam, the Netherlands, December 10, 2013.
• Co-organizer of the Workshop @the Dutch House of Representatives, Den Haag, the Netherlands, September 19, 2013
• Co-organizer of the Hackathon on Text Mining & Big Data, Studio K, July 2, 2013, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (see also facebook event).

2012

• Co-organizer of the DutchSemCor Workshop, October 25, 2012, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
• Chair and Co-Organizer of the 6th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2012), January 9-13, 2012, Matsue, Japan

2011

• Co-organizer of the 2nd KYOTO Workshop “Advanced Information Systems for sharing information and Knowledge about the Environment“, January 25-28, 2011, Gifu, Japan.

2010

• Co-organizer of OntoLex 2010: 6th Workshop on “Ontologies and Lexical Resources”, COLING, August 21-22, 2010, Beijing, China.
• Co-organizer of SemEval-2010: 5th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations on Kyoto‘s subtask WSD17: All-words Word Sense Disambiguation on a Specific Domain, workshop collocation: ACL2010, July 11-16, Uppsala, Sweden.
• Co-organizer of the CAMeRA-project “From Text to Political Positions (T2PP)” Workshop “Mining for Meaning”, VU University Amsterdam, April 9-10, 2010.
• Chair and Co-organizer of the 5th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2010), Mumbai, India, January 31 – February 4, 2010.

2009

• Organizer of the 1st Workshop of Kyoto, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, February 2-3, 2009.

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, Marrakech, Turkey, May 31, 2008.
• Organizer of the DutchSemCor Workshop, Vrije University Amsterdam, May 16, 2008.
• Chair and 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, Poznan, Poland, October 5-7, 2007.
• 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, Trento, Italy, February 3-4, 2005.

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.

2021

• Area Chair Reproduction of Research Results in Science and Technology of Language of the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2022), Marseille, France, June 20-25, 2022.
• Chair and co-organizer of the 11th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2021), online, Pretoria, South Africa, January 18-22, 2021. 

2020

• Chair and organizer of the CLTL-Human Language Technology bedrijvendag: Meet and Greet 2020 in Gathertown, VU Universiteit Amsterdam, December 3, 2020.
• Co-organizer of the Shared Task on the Reproduction of Research Results in Science and Technology of Language (REPROLANG2020) @ LREC2020, May 13-15, 2020, Marseille, France.
• Co-organizer of the Multimodal Wordnets Workshop 2020 @ LREC2020, May 13-15, 2020, Marseille, France.

2019

• Chair and organizer of the CLTL-Human Language Technology bedrijvendag: Meet and Greet 2019, VU Universiteit Amsterdam, December 13, 2019.
• Chair and co-organizer of the 10th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2019), Wroclaw, Poland, July 23-27, 2019.

2018

• Co-organizer of the Events and Stories in the News 2018 workshop at the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2018), Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA,  August 20-25, 2018.
• Co-organizer of the workshop “Storyline Coding and Annotation” within the theme Researching Narrative Identities with Small Stories at the Conference Narrative Matters 2018,  July 2, 2018, Enschede, the Netherlands.
• Chair and co-organizer of the KNAW Domeinmiddag Geesteswetenschappen: Nep of niet nep: “De veranderlijke halfwaardetijd van kennis en waarheid, en de poging daar grip op te krijgen”, Amsterdam, June 25, 2018.
• Co-organizer of the  workshop SemEval-2018 Task: Counting Events and Participants in the Long Tail at SemEval-2018, co-located with the 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT 2018). New Orleans, LA, USA, June 5-6 2018.
• Chair and co-organizer of the 9th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2018), Singapore, January 8-12, 2018.

2017

• Chair and co-organizer of the CLTL-Human Language Technology bedrijvendag: meet and greet, VU Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, December 7, 2017.
• Co-organizer of the  Open Knowledge Base and Question Answering Workshop (OKBQA2017) co-located with the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR2017), Tokio, Japan, August 11, 2017.
• Co-organizer of the workshop Events and Stories in the News co-located with the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2017), Vancouver, Canada, August 4, 2017.
• Co-organizer of the workshop “Challenges for Wordnets” co-located with the 1st conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK2017), Galway, Ireland, June 18, 2017.
• Organizer of the NIAS-Lorentz workshop “Language, Knowledge and People in Perspective“, Leiden, the Netherlands, April 18-21, 2017.
• Invited member of the jury (as a member of the KHMW) of the Keetje Hodshon Prijs 2017 of the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (KHMW).

2016

• Co-organizer of the workshop Open Knowledge Base and Question Answering Workshop (OKBQA 2016) at the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING2016), December 11-16, 2016, Osaka, Japan.
• Co-organizer of the 2nd Workshop on Computing News Storylines (CNewsStory-2016), co-located with EMNLP 2016, Austin, Texas, U.S.A. November 2-6, 2016.
• Co-organizer of Unshared task on “Perspective Based Local Agreement and Disagreement in Online Debate” at 3rd Workshop on Argument Mining in conjunction with the Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2016), Berlin, August 12, 2016.
• Section editor of the theme Language and information in the world with Antal van den Bosch at the Summerschool 2016 by Language in Interaction, July 2016.
• Co-organizer of the 2nd Spinoza-workshop “Looking at the Long Tail“, Amsterdam, June 24, 2016.
• Co-organizer of the 7th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA-2016), co-located with the NAACL-HLT 2016 Conference, San Diego, California, June 12-17, 2016
• Chair and co-Organizer of the 8th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2016), Bucharest, Romania, January 27-30, 2016.
• Co-organizer of the NewsReader Hackathon “Car Wars Revisited”, January 8, 2015.

2015

• Co-organizer of the 26th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN26),  Hotel Casa 400, Amsterdam, December 17-18, 2015.
• Co-organizer of the NewsReader Conference, Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam, November 24, 2015.
• Co-organizer of the NewsReader Hackathon, Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam, November 25, 2015.
• Co-organizer of the 6th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2015), co-located with with the EMNLP 2015 Conference, Lissabon, Portugal, September 17, 2015.
• Co-organizer of the 2nd Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Linked Open Data  in conjunction with RANLP2015, Hassar, Bulgaria, September 10, 2015.
• Co-organizer of  a summer school course on “Perspectives on Subjectivity“, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands from July 6-17, 2015.
• Co-organizer of the First Workshop on Computing News Storylines [NewsStory]  in conjunction with ACL-IJCNLP 2015, Beijing, China, July 26-31, 2015.
• Co-organzer of the workshop on the theme of “Biographical Data in a Digital World, Rockstart, Amsterdam, April 9, 2015
• Co-organize of the Textmining Hackathon,  VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, March 19, 2015
• Co-organizer of the KIEM workshop, March 17, 2015
• Co-organizer of the lecture by George Lakoff @ VU University, March 13, 2015
• Co-Organizer of the NewsReader Hackaton, London, United Kingdom, January 30, 2015
• Co-Organizer of the NewsReader Hackaton, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, January 21, 2015

2014

• Co-organizer of the Mini-seminar “Disambiguating entities and their roles in texts based on background knowledge”, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, December 12, 2015
• Co-organizer of the Spinoza kick-off workshop, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, October 17, 2014.
• Co–organizer of NewsReader Ontology Workshop, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 23, 2014.
• Co-organizer of the NewsReader Hackaton, June 10, 2014, London, United Kingdom.
• Co-organizer of the OpeNER Hackaton,  May 26, 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland.
• Co-organizer of the NewsReader workshop, May 14, 2014, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
• Co-organizer and speaker on “Digital Humanities: Hype or Revolution – Part 3: ”Het gezicht van de sociale media“ at Spui25,  Amsterdam, the Netherlands, February 6, 2014.
• Chair and Co-organizer of the 7th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2014), January 25-29, 2014, Tartu, Estonia.
• Co-organizer and speaker on “Digital Humanities: Hype or Revolution – Part 2: ”De Gouden Eeuw: de ontsluiting van een schatkamer aan informatie“at Spui25,  Amsterdam, the Netherlands, January 21, 2014.

2013

• Co-organizer and speaker on “Digital Humanities: Hype or Revolution – Part 1: ”De digitale kaart van Landschap, Architectuur en Verstedelijking“ at Spui25,  Amsterdam, the Netherlands, December 10, 2013.
• Co-organizer of the Workshop @the Dutch House of Representatives, Den Haag, the Netherlands, September 19, 2013
• Co-organizer of the Hackathon on Text Mining & Big Data, Studio K, July 2, 2013, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (see also facebook event).

2012

• Co-organizer of the DutchSemCor Workshop, October 25, 2012, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
• Chair and Co-Organizer of the 6th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2012), January 9-13, 2012, Matsue, Japan

2011

• Co-organizer of the 2nd KYOTO Workshop “Advanced Information Systems for sharing information and Knowledge about the Environment“, January 25-28, 2011, Gifu, Japan.

2010

• Co-organizer of OntoLex 2010: 6th Workshop on “Ontologies and Lexical Resources”, COLING, August 21-22, 2010, Beijing, China.
• Co-organizer of SemEval-2010: 5th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations on Kyoto‘s subtask WSD17: All-words Word Sense Disambiguation on a Specific Domain, workshop collocation: ACL2010, July 11-16, Uppsala, Sweden.
• Co-organizer of the CAMeRA-project “From Text to Political Positions (T2PP)” Workshop “Mining for Meaning”, VU University Amsterdam, April 9-10, 2010.
• Chair and Co-organizer of the 5th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2010), Mumbai, India, January 31 – February 4, 2010.

2009

• Organizer of the 1st Workshop of Kyoto, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, February 2-3, 2009.

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, Marrakech, Turkey, May 31, 2008.
• Organizer of the DutchSemCor Workshop, Vrije University Amsterdam, May 16, 2008.
• Chair and 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, Poznan, Poland, October 5-7, 2007.
• 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, Trento, Italy, February 3-4, 2005.

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.

2021

• Area Chair Reproduction of Research Results in Science and Technology of Language of the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2022), Marseille, France, June 20-25, 2022.
• Chair and co-organizer of the 11th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2021), online, Pretoria, South Africa, January 18-22, 2021. 

2020

• Chair and organizer of the CLTL-Human Language Technology bedrijvendag: Meet and Greet 2020 in Gathertown, VU Universiteit Amsterdam, December 3, 2020.
• Co-organizer of the Shared Task on the Reproduction of Research Results in Science and Technology of Language (REPROLANG2020) @ LREC2020, May 13-15, 2020, Marseille, France.
• Co-organizer of the Multimodal Wordnets Workshop 2020 @ LREC2020, May 13-15, 2020, Marseille, France.

2019

• Chair and organizer of the CLTL-Human Language Technology bedrijvendag: Meet and Greet 2019, VU Universiteit Amsterdam, December 13, 2019.
• Chair and co-organizer of the 10th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2019), Wroclaw, Poland, July 23-27, 2019.

2018

• Co-organizer of the Events and Stories in the News 2018 workshop at the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2018), Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA,  August 20-25, 2018.
• Co-organizer of the workshop “Storyline Coding and Annotation” within the theme Researching Narrative Identities with Small Stories at the Conference Narrative Matters 2018,  July 2, 2018, Enschede, the Netherlands.
• Chair and co-organizer of the KNAW Domeinmiddag Geesteswetenschappen: Nep of niet nep: “De veranderlijke halfwaardetijd van kennis en waarheid, en de poging daar grip op te krijgen”, Amsterdam, June 25, 2018.
• Co-organizer of the  workshop SemEval-2018 Task: Counting Events and Participants in the Long Tail at SemEval-2018, co-located with the 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT 2018). New Orleans, LA, USA, June 5-6 2018.
• Chair and co-organizer of the 9th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2018), Singapore, January 8-12, 2018.

2017

• Chair and co-organizer of the CLTL-Human Language Technology bedrijvendag: meet and greet, VU Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, December 7, 2017.
• Co-organizer of the  Open Knowledge Base and Question Answering Workshop (OKBQA2017) co-located with the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR2017), Tokio, Japan, August 11, 2017.
• Co-organizer of the workshop Events and Stories in the News co-located with the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2017), Vancouver, Canada, August 4, 2017.
• Co-organizer of the workshop “Challenges for Wordnets” co-located with the 1st conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK2017), Galway, Ireland, June 18, 2017.
• Organizer of the NIAS-Lorentz workshop “Language, Knowledge and People in Perspective“, Leiden, the Netherlands, April 18-21, 2017.
• Invited member of the jury (as a member of the KHMW) of the Keetje Hodshon Prijs 2017 of the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (KHMW).

2016

• Co-organizer of the workshop Open Knowledge Base and Question Answering Workshop (OKBQA 2016) at the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING2016), December 11-16, 2016, Osaka, Japan.
• Co-organizer of the 2nd Workshop on Computing News Storylines (CNewsStory-2016), co-located with EMNLP 2016, Austin, Texas, U.S.A. November 2-6, 2016.
• Co-organizer of Unshared task on “Perspective Based Local Agreement and Disagreement in Online Debate” at 3rd Workshop on Argument Mining in conjunction with the Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2016), Berlin, August 12, 2016.
• Section editor of the theme Language and information in the world with Antal van den Bosch at the Summerschool 2016 by Language in Interaction, July 2016.
• Co-organizer of the 2nd Spinoza-workshop “Looking at the Long Tail“, Amsterdam, June 24, 2016.
• Co-organizer of the 7th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA-2016), co-located with the NAACL-HLT 2016 Conference, San Diego, California, June 12-17, 2016
• Chair and co-Organizer of the 8th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2016), Bucharest, Romania, January 27-30, 2016.
• Co-organizer of the NewsReader Hackathon “Car Wars Revisited”, January 8, 2015.

2015

• Co-organizer of the 26th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN26),  Hotel Casa 400, Amsterdam, December 17-18, 2015.
• Co-organizer of the NewsReader Conference, Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam, November 24, 2015.
• Co-organizer of the NewsReader Hackathon, Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam, November 25, 2015.
• Co-organizer of the 6th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2015), co-located with with the EMNLP 2015 Conference, Lissabon, Portugal, September 17, 2015.
• Co-organizer of the 2nd Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Linked Open Data  in conjunction with RANLP2015, Hassar, Bulgaria, September 10, 2015.
• Co-organizer of  a summer school course on “Perspectives on Subjectivity“, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands from July 6-17, 2015.
• Co-organizer of the First Workshop on Computing News Storylines [NewsStory]  in conjunction with ACL-IJCNLP 2015, Beijing, China, July 26-31, 2015.
• Co-organzer of the workshop on the theme of “Biographical Data in a Digital World, Rockstart, Amsterdam, April 9, 2015
• Co-organize of the Textmining Hackathon,  VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, March 19, 2015
• Co-organizer of the KIEM workshop, March 17, 2015
• Co-organizer of the lecture by George Lakoff @ VU University, March 13, 2015
• Co-Organizer of the NewsReader Hackaton, London, United Kingdom, January 30, 2015
• Co-Organizer of the NewsReader Hackaton, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, January 21, 2015

2014

• Co-organizer of the Mini-seminar “Disambiguating entities and their roles in texts based on background knowledge”, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, December 12, 2015
• Co-organizer of the Spinoza kick-off workshop, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, October 17, 2014.
• Co–organizer of NewsReader Ontology Workshop, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 23, 2014.
• Co-organizer of the NewsReader Hackaton, June 10, 2014, London, United Kingdom.
• Co-organizer of the OpeNER Hackaton,  May 26, 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland.
• Co-organizer of the NewsReader workshop, May 14, 2014, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
• Co-organizer and speaker on “Digital Humanities: Hype or Revolution – Part 3: ”Het gezicht van de sociale media“ at Spui25,  Amsterdam, the Netherlands, February 6, 2014.
• Chair and Co-organizer of the 7th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2014), January 25-29, 2014, Tartu, Estonia.
• Co-organizer and speaker on “Digital Humanities: Hype or Revolution – Part 2: ”De Gouden Eeuw: de ontsluiting van een schatkamer aan informatie“at Spui25,  Amsterdam, the Netherlands, January 21, 2014.

2013

• Co-organizer and speaker on “Digital Humanities: Hype or Revolution – Part 1: ”De digitale kaart van Landschap, Architectuur en Verstedelijking“ at Spui25,  Amsterdam, the Netherlands, December 10, 2013.
• Co-organizer of the Workshop @the Dutch House of Representatives, Den Haag, the Netherlands, September 19, 2013
• Co-organizer of the Hackathon on Text Mining & Big Data, Studio K, July 2, 2013, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (see also facebook event).

2012

• Co-organizer of the DutchSemCor Workshop, October 25, 2012, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
• Chair and Co-Organizer of the 6th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2012), January 9-13, 2012, Matsue, Japan

2011

• Co-organizer of the 2nd KYOTO Workshop “Advanced Information Systems for sharing information and Knowledge about the Environment“, January 25-28, 2011, Gifu, Japan.

2010

• Co-organizer of OntoLex 2010: 6th Workshop on “Ontologies and Lexical Resources”, COLING, August 21-22, 2010, Beijing, China.
• Co-organizer of SemEval-2010: 5th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations on Kyoto‘s subtask WSD17: All-words Word Sense Disambiguation on a Specific Domain, workshop collocation: ACL2010, July 11-16, Uppsala, Sweden.
• Co-organizer of the CAMeRA-project “From Text to Political Positions (T2PP)” Workshop “Mining for Meaning”, VU University Amsterdam, April 9-10, 2010.
• Chair and Co-organizer of the 5th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2010), Mumbai, India, January 31 – February 4, 2010.

2009

• Organizer of the 1st Workshop of Kyoto, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, February 2-3, 2009.

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, Marrakech, Turkey, May 31, 2008.
• Organizer of the DutchSemCor Workshop, Vrije University Amsterdam, May 16, 2008.
• Chair and 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, Poznan, Poland, October 5-7, 2007.
• 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, Trento, Italy, February 3-4, 2005.

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.

2022

• Organizer of the HI Panel: Do agents need bodies?, VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands, December 9, 2022.
• Co-organizer of the 5th Meet & Greet CLTL master students and Industry in Gathertown, VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands,  December 1, 2022.
• Area Chair “Reproduction of Research Results in Science and Technology of Language” of the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2022), Marseille, France, June 20-25, 2022.
• Co-organizer of the workshop “Wordnets in the Deep Learning Era” at the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2022), Marseille, France, June 20-25, 2022.
• Chair “Lexicon and WordNet” at the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2022), Marseille, France, June 20-25, 2022.
• Organizer of the Workshop on the Representation, Sharing and Evaluation of Multimodal Agent Interaction (MMAI2022) at the first International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (https://www.hhai-conference.org/workshops/), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 13, 2022.
• LOT Winterschool 2022 at VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands,  January 10-14 and January 17-21, 2022.

2021

• Co-organizer of the 4th Meet & Greet CLTL master students and Industry in Gathertown, VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands,  December 2, 2021.
• Chair and co-organizer of the 11th online Global WordNet Conference (GWC2021), Pretoria, South Africa, January 18-22, 2021. 

2020

• Chair and organizer of the CLTL-Human Language Technology bedrijvendag: Meet and Greet 2020 in Gathertown, VU Universiteit Amsterdam, December 3, 2020.
• Co-organizer of the Shared Task on the Reproduction of Research Results in Science and Technology of Language (REPROLANG2020) @ LREC2020, May 13-15, 2020, Marseille, France.
• Co-organizer of the Multimodal Wordnets Workshop 2020 @ LREC2020, May 13-15, 2020, Marseille, France.

2019

• Chair and organizer of the CLTL-Human Language Technology bedrijvendag: Meet and Greet 2019, VU Universiteit Amsterdam, December 13, 2019.
• Chair and co-organizer of the 10th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2019), Wroclaw, Poland, July 23-27, 2019.

2018

• Co-organizer of the Events and Stories in the News 2018 workshop at the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2018), Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA,  August 20-25, 2018.
• Co-organizer of the workshop “Storyline Coding and Annotation” within the theme Researching Narrative Identities with Small Stories at the Conference Narrative Matters 2018,  July 2, 2018, Enschede, the Netherlands.
• Chair and co-organizer of the KNAW Domeinmiddag Geesteswetenschappen: Nep of niet nep: “De veranderlijke halfwaardetijd van kennis en waarheid, en de poging daar grip op te krijgen”, Amsterdam, June 25, 2018.
• Co-organizer of the  workshop SemEval-2018 Task: Counting Events and Participants in the Long Tail at SemEval-2018, co-located with the 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT 2018). New Orleans, LA, USA, June 5-6 2018.
• Chair and co-organizer of the 9th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2018), Singapore, January 8-12, 2018.

2017

• Chair and co-organizer of the CLTL-Human Language Technology bedrijvendag: meet and greet, VU Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, December 7, 2017.
• Co-organizer of the  Open Knowledge Base and Question Answering Workshop (OKBQA2017) co-located with the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR2017), Tokio, Japan, August 11, 2017.
• Co-organizer of the workshop Events and Stories in the News co-located with the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2017), Vancouver, Canada, August 4, 2017.
• Co-organizer of the workshop “Challenges for Wordnets” co-located with the 1st conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK2017), Galway, Ireland, June 18, 2017.
• Organizer of the NIAS-Lorentz workshop “Language, Knowledge and People in Perspective“, Leiden, the Netherlands, April 18-21, 2017.
• Invited member of the jury (as a member of the KHMW) of the Keetje Hodshon Prijs 2017 of the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (KHMW).

2016

• Co-organizer of the workshop Open Knowledge Base and Question Answering Workshop (OKBQA 2016) at the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING2016), December 11-16, 2016, Osaka, Japan.
• Co-organizer of the 2nd Workshop on Computing News Storylines (CNewsStory-2016), co-located with EMNLP 2016, Austin, Texas, U.S.A. November 2-6, 2016.
• Co-organizer of Unshared task on “Perspective Based Local Agreement and Disagreement in Online Debate” at 3rd Workshop on Argument Mining in conjunction with the Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2016), Berlin, August 12, 2016.
• Section editor of the theme Language and information in the world with Antal van den Bosch at the Summerschool 2016 by Language in Interaction, July 2016.
• Co-organizer of the 2nd Spinoza-workshop “Looking at the Long Tail“, Amsterdam, June 24, 2016.
• Co-organizer of the 7th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA-2016), co-located with the NAACL-HLT 2016 Conference, San Diego, California, June 12-17, 2016
• Chair and co-Organizer of the 8th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2016), Bucharest, Romania, January 27-30, 2016.
• Co-organizer of the NewsReader Hackathon “Car Wars Revisited”, January 8, 2015.

2015

• Co-organizer of the 26th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN26),  Hotel Casa 400, Amsterdam, December 17-18, 2015.
• Co-organizer of the NewsReader Conference, Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam, November 24, 2015.
• Co-organizer of the NewsReader Hackathon, Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam, November 25, 2015.
• Co-organizer of the 6th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2015), co-located with with the EMNLP 2015 Conference, Lissabon, Portugal, September 17, 2015.
• Co-organizer of the 2nd Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Linked Open Data  in conjunction with RANLP2015, Hassar, Bulgaria, September 10, 2015.
• Co-organizer of  a summer school course on “Perspectives on Subjectivity“, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands from July 6-17, 2015.
• Co-organizer of the First Workshop on Computing News Storylines [NewsStory]  in conjunction with ACL-IJCNLP 2015, Beijing, China, July 26-31, 2015.
• Co-organzer of the workshop on the theme of “Biographical Data in a Digital World, Rockstart, Amsterdam, April 9, 2015
• Co-organize of the Textmining Hackathon,  VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, March 19, 2015
• Co-organizer of the KIEM workshop, March 17, 2015
• Co-organizer of the lecture by George Lakoff @ VU University, March 13, 2015
• Co-Organizer of the NewsReader Hackaton, London, United Kingdom, January 30, 2015
• Co-Organizer of the NewsReader Hackaton, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, January 21, 2015

2014

• Co-organizer of the Mini-seminar “Disambiguating entities and their roles in texts based on background knowledge”, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, December 12, 2015
• Co-organizer of the Spinoza kick-off workshop, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, October 17, 2014.
• Co–organizer of NewsReader Ontology Workshop, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 23, 2014.
• Co-organizer of the NewsReader Hackaton, June 10, 2014, London, United Kingdom.
• Co-organizer of the OpeNER Hackaton,  May 26, 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland.
• Co-organizer of the NewsReader workshop, May 14, 2014, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
• Co-organizer and speaker on “Digital Humanities: Hype or Revolution – Part 3: ”Het gezicht van de sociale media“ at Spui25,  Amsterdam, the Netherlands, February 6, 2014.
• Chair and Co-organizer of the 7th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2014), January 25-29, 2014, Tartu, Estonia.
• Co-organizer and speaker on “Digital Humanities: Hype or Revolution – Part 2: ”De Gouden Eeuw: de ontsluiting van een schatkamer aan informatie“at Spui25,  Amsterdam, the Netherlands, January 21, 2014.

2013

• Co-organizer and speaker on “Digital Humanities: Hype or Revolution – Part 1: ”De digitale kaart van Landschap, Architectuur en Verstedelijking“ at Spui25,  Amsterdam, the Netherlands, December 10, 2013.
• Co-organizer of the Workshop @the Dutch House of Representatives, Den Haag, the Netherlands, September 19, 2013
• Co-organizer of the Hackathon on Text Mining & Big Data, Studio K, July 2, 2013, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (see also facebook event).

2012

• Co-organizer of the DutchSemCor Workshop, October 25, 2012, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
• Chair and Co-Organizer of the 6th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2012), January 9-13, 2012, Matsue, Japan

2011

• Co-organizer of the 2nd KYOTO Workshop “Advanced Information Systems for sharing information and Knowledge about the Environment“, January 25-28, 2011, Gifu, Japan.

2010

• Co-organizer of OntoLex 2010: 6th Workshop on “Ontologies and Lexical Resources”, COLING, August 21-22, 2010, Beijing, China.
• Co-organizer of SemEval-2010: 5th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations on Kyoto‘s subtask WSD17: All-words Word Sense Disambiguation on a Specific Domain, workshop collocation: ACL2010, July 11-16, Uppsala, Sweden.
• Co-organizer of the CAMeRA-project “From Text to Political Positions (T2PP)” Workshop “Mining for Meaning”, VU University Amsterdam, April 9-10, 2010.
• Chair and Co-organizer of the 5th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2010), Mumbai, India, January 31 – February 4, 2010.

2009

• Organizer of the 1st Workshop of Kyoto, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, February 2-3, 2009.

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, Marrakech, Turkey, May 31, 2008.
• Organizer of the DutchSemCor Workshop, Vrije University Amsterdam, May 16, 2008.
• Chair and 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, Poznan, Poland, October 5-7, 2007.
• 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, Trento, Italy, February 3-4, 2005.

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.

2021

• Area Chair Reproduction of Research Results in Science and Technology of Language of the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2022), Marseille, France, June 20-25, 2022.
• Chair and co-organizer of the 11th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2021), online, Pretoria, South Africa, January 18-22, 2021. 

2020

• Chair and organizer of the CLTL-Human Language Technology bedrijvendag: Meet and Greet 2020 in Gathertown, VU Universiteit Amsterdam, December 3, 2020.
• Co-organizer of the Shared Task on the Reproduction of Research Results in Science and Technology of Language (REPROLANG2020) @ LREC2020, May 13-15, 2020, Marseille, France.
• Co-organizer of the Multimodal Wordnets Workshop 2020 @ LREC2020, May 13-15, 2020, Marseille, France.

2019

• Chair and organizer of the CLTL-Human Language Technology bedrijvendag: Meet and Greet 2019, VU Universiteit Amsterdam, December 13, 2019.
• Chair and co-organizer of the 10th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2019), Wroclaw, Poland, July 23-27, 2019.

2018

• Co-organizer of the Events and Stories in the News 2018 workshop at the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2018), Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA,  August 20-25, 2018.
• Co-organizer of the workshop “Storyline Coding and Annotation” within the theme Researching Narrative Identities with Small Stories at the Conference Narrative Matters 2018,  July 2, 2018, Enschede, the Netherlands.
• Chair and co-organizer of the KNAW Domeinmiddag Geesteswetenschappen: Nep of niet nep: “De veranderlijke halfwaardetijd van kennis en waarheid, en de poging daar grip op te krijgen”, Amsterdam, June 25, 2018.
• Co-organizer of the  workshop SemEval-2018 Task: Counting Events and Participants in the Long Tail at SemEval-2018, co-located with the 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT 2018). New Orleans, LA, USA, June 5-6 2018.
• Chair and co-organizer of the 9th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2018), Singapore, January 8-12, 2018.

2017

• Chair and co-organizer of the CLTL-Human Language Technology bedrijvendag: meet and greet, VU Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, December 7, 2017.
• Co-organizer of the  Open Knowledge Base and Question Answering Workshop (OKBQA2017) co-located with the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR2017), Tokio, Japan, August 11, 2017.
• Co-organizer of the workshop Events and Stories in the News co-located with the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2017), Vancouver, Canada, August 4, 2017.
• Co-organizer of the workshop “Challenges for Wordnets” co-located with the 1st conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK2017), Galway, Ireland, June 18, 2017.
• Organizer of the NIAS-Lorentz workshop “Language, Knowledge and People in Perspective“, Leiden, the Netherlands, April 18-21, 2017.
• Invited member of the jury (as a member of the KHMW) of the Keetje Hodshon Prijs 2017 of the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (KHMW).

2016

• Co-organizer of the workshop Open Knowledge Base and Question Answering Workshop (OKBQA 2016) at the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING2016), December 11-16, 2016, Osaka, Japan.
• Co-organizer of the 2nd Workshop on Computing News Storylines (CNewsStory-2016), co-located with EMNLP 2016, Austin, Texas, U.S.A. November 2-6, 2016.
• Co-organizer of Unshared task on “Perspective Based Local Agreement and Disagreement in Online Debate” at 3rd Workshop on Argument Mining in conjunction with the Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2016), Berlin, August 12, 2016.
• Section editor of the theme Language and information in the world with Antal van den Bosch at the Summerschool 2016 by Language in Interaction, July 2016.
• Co-organizer of the 2nd Spinoza-workshop “Looking at the Long Tail“, Amsterdam, June 24, 2016.
• Co-organizer of the 7th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA-2016), co-located with the NAACL-HLT 2016 Conference, San Diego, California, June 12-17, 2016
• Chair and co-Organizer of the 8th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2016), Bucharest, Romania, January 27-30, 2016.
• Co-organizer of the NewsReader Hackathon “Car Wars Revisited”, January 8, 2015.

2015

• Co-organizer of the 26th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN26),  Hotel Casa 400, Amsterdam, December 17-18, 2015.
• Co-organizer of the NewsReader Conference, Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam, November 24, 2015.
• Co-organizer of the NewsReader Hackathon, Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam, November 25, 2015.
• Co-organizer of the 6th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2015), co-located with with the EMNLP 2015 Conference, Lissabon, Portugal, September 17, 2015.
• Co-organizer of the 2nd Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Linked Open Data  in conjunction with RANLP2015, Hassar, Bulgaria, September 10, 2015.
• Co-organizer of  a summer school course on “Perspectives on Subjectivity“, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands from July 6-17, 2015.
• Co-organizer of the First Workshop on Computing News Storylines [NewsStory]  in conjunction with ACL-IJCNLP 2015, Beijing, China, July 26-31, 2015.
• Co-organzer of the workshop on the theme of “Biographical Data in a Digital World, Rockstart, Amsterdam, April 9, 2015
• Co-organize of the Textmining Hackathon,  VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, March 19, 2015
• Co-organizer of the KIEM workshop, March 17, 2015
• Co-organizer of the lecture by George Lakoff @ VU University, March 13, 2015
• Co-Organizer of the NewsReader Hackaton, London, United Kingdom, January 30, 2015
• Co-Organizer of the NewsReader Hackaton, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, January 21, 2015

2014

• Co-organizer of the Mini-seminar “Disambiguating entities and their roles in texts based on background knowledge”, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, December 12, 2015
• Co-organizer of the Spinoza kick-off workshop, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, October 17, 2014.
• Co–organizer of NewsReader Ontology Workshop, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 23, 2014.
• Co-organizer of the NewsReader Hackaton, June 10, 2014, London, United Kingdom.
• Co-organizer of the OpeNER Hackaton,  May 26, 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland.
• Co-organizer of the NewsReader workshop, May 14, 2014, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
• Co-organizer and speaker on “Digital Humanities: Hype or Revolution – Part 3: ”Het gezicht van de sociale media“ at Spui25,  Amsterdam, the Netherlands, February 6, 2014.
• Chair and Co-organizer of the 7th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2014), January 25-29, 2014, Tartu, Estonia.
• Co-organizer and speaker on “Digital Humanities: Hype or Revolution – Part 2: ”De Gouden Eeuw: de ontsluiting van een schatkamer aan informatie“at Spui25,  Amsterdam, the Netherlands, January 21, 2014.

2013

• Co-organizer and speaker on “Digital Humanities: Hype or Revolution – Part 1: ”De digitale kaart van Landschap, Architectuur en Verstedelijking“ at Spui25,  Amsterdam, the Netherlands, December 10, 2013.
• Co-organizer of the Workshop @the Dutch House of Representatives, Den Haag, the Netherlands, September 19, 2013
• Co-organizer of the Hackathon on Text Mining & Big Data, Studio K, July 2, 2013, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (see also facebook event).

2012

• Co-organizer of the DutchSemCor Workshop, October 25, 2012, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
• Chair and Co-Organizer of the 6th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2012), January 9-13, 2012, Matsue, Japan

2011

• Co-organizer of the 2nd KYOTO Workshop “Advanced Information Systems for sharing information and Knowledge about the Environment“, January 25-28, 2011, Gifu, Japan.

2010

• Co-organizer of OntoLex 2010: 6th Workshop on “Ontologies and Lexical Resources”, COLING, August 21-22, 2010, Beijing, China.
• Co-organizer of SemEval-2010: 5th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations on Kyoto‘s subtask WSD17: All-words Word Sense Disambiguation on a Specific Domain, workshop collocation: ACL2010, July 11-16, Uppsala, Sweden.
• Co-organizer of the CAMeRA-project “From Text to Political Positions (T2PP)” Workshop “Mining for Meaning”, VU University Amsterdam, April 9-10, 2010.
• Chair and Co-organizer of the 5th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2010), Mumbai, India, January 31 – February 4, 2010.

2009

• Organizer of the 1st Workshop of Kyoto, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, February 2-3, 2009.

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, Marrakech, Turkey, May 31, 2008.
• Organizer of the DutchSemCor Workshop, Vrije University Amsterdam, May 16, 2008.
• Chair and 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, Poznan, Poland, October 5-7, 2007.
• 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, Trento, Italy, February 3-4, 2005.

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.

2021

• Area Chair Reproduction of Research Results in Science and Technology of Language of the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2022), Marseille, France, June 20-25, 2022.
• Chair and co-organizer of the 11th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2021), online, Pretoria, South Africa, January 18-22, 2021. 

2020

• Chair and organizer of the CLTL-Human Language Technology bedrijvendag: Meet and Greet 2020 in Gathertown, VU Universiteit Amsterdam, December 3, 2020.
• Co-organizer of the Shared Task on the Reproduction of Research Results in Science and Technology of Language (REPROLANG2020) @ LREC2020, May 13-15, 2020, Marseille, France.
• Co-organizer of the Multimodal Wordnets Workshop 2020 @ LREC2020, May 13-15, 2020, Marseille, France.

2019

• Chair and organizer of the CLTL-Human Language Technology bedrijvendag: Meet and Greet 2019, VU Universiteit Amsterdam, December 13, 2019.
• Chair and co-organizer of the 10th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2019), Wroclaw, Poland, July 23-27, 2019.

2018

• Co-organizer of the Events and Stories in the News 2018 workshop at the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2018), Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA,  August 20-25, 2018.
• Co-organizer of the workshop “Storyline Coding and Annotation” within the theme Researching Narrative Identities with Small Stories at the Conference Narrative Matters 2018,  July 2, 2018, Enschede, the Netherlands.
• Chair and co-organizer of the KNAW Domeinmiddag Geesteswetenschappen: Nep of niet nep: “De veranderlijke halfwaardetijd van kennis en waarheid, en de poging daar grip op te krijgen”, Amsterdam, June 25, 2018.
• Co-organizer of the  workshop SemEval-2018 Task: Counting Events and Participants in the Long Tail at SemEval-2018, co-located with the 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT 2018). New Orleans, LA, USA, June 5-6 2018.
• Chair and co-organizer of the 9th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2018), Singapore, January 8-12, 2018.

2017

• Chair and co-organizer of the CLTL-Human Language Technology bedrijvendag: meet and greet, VU Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, December 7, 2017.
• Co-organizer of the  Open Knowledge Base and Question Answering Workshop (OKBQA2017) co-located with the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR2017), Tokio, Japan, August 11, 2017.
• Co-organizer of the workshop Events and Stories in the News co-located with the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2017), Vancouver, Canada, August 4, 2017.
• Co-organizer of the workshop “Challenges for Wordnets” co-located with the 1st conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK2017), Galway, Ireland, June 18, 2017.
• Organizer of the NIAS-Lorentz workshop “Language, Knowledge and People in Perspective“, Leiden, the Netherlands, April 18-21, 2017.
• Invited member of the jury (as a member of the KHMW) of the Keetje Hodshon Prijs 2017 of the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (KHMW).

2016

• Co-organizer of the workshop Open Knowledge Base and Question Answering Workshop (OKBQA 2016) at the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING2016), December 11-16, 2016, Osaka, Japan.
• Co-organizer of the 2nd Workshop on Computing News Storylines (CNewsStory-2016), co-located with EMNLP 2016, Austin, Texas, U.S.A. November 2-6, 2016.
• Co-organizer of Unshared task on “Perspective Based Local Agreement and Disagreement in Online Debate” at 3rd Workshop on Argument Mining in conjunction with the Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2016), Berlin, August 12, 2016.
• Section editor of the theme Language and information in the world with Antal van den Bosch at the Summerschool 2016 by Language in Interaction, July 2016.
• Co-organizer of the 2nd Spinoza-workshop “Looking at the Long Tail“, Amsterdam, June 24, 2016.
• Co-organizer of the 7th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA-2016), co-located with the NAACL-HLT 2016 Conference, San Diego, California, June 12-17, 2016
• Chair and co-Organizer of the 8th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2016), Bucharest, Romania, January 27-30, 2016.
• Co-organizer of the NewsReader Hackathon “Car Wars Revisited”, January 8, 2015.

2015

• Co-organizer of the 26th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN26),  Hotel Casa 400, Amsterdam, December 17-18, 2015.
• Co-organizer of the NewsReader Conference, Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam, November 24, 2015.
• Co-organizer of the NewsReader Hackathon, Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam, November 25, 2015.
• Co-organizer of the 6th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2015), co-located with with the EMNLP 2015 Conference, Lissabon, Portugal, September 17, 2015.
• Co-organizer of the 2nd Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Linked Open Data  in conjunction with RANLP2015, Hassar, Bulgaria, September 10, 2015.
• Co-organizer of  a summer school course on “Perspectives on Subjectivity“, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands from July 6-17, 2015.
• Co-organizer of the First Workshop on Computing News Storylines [NewsStory]  in conjunction with ACL-IJCNLP 2015, Beijing, China, July 26-31, 2015.
• Co-organzer of the workshop on the theme of “Biographical Data in a Digital World, Rockstart, Amsterdam, April 9, 2015
• Co-organize of the Textmining Hackathon,  VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, March 19, 2015
• Co-organizer of the KIEM workshop, March 17, 2015
• Co-organizer of the lecture by George Lakoff @ VU University, March 13, 2015
• Co-Organizer of the NewsReader Hackaton, London, United Kingdom, January 30, 2015
• Co-Organizer of the NewsReader Hackaton, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, January 21, 2015

2014

• Co-organizer of the Mini-seminar “Disambiguating entities and their roles in texts based on background knowledge”, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, December 12, 2015
• Co-organizer of the Spinoza kick-off workshop, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, October 17, 2014.
• Co–organizer of NewsReader Ontology Workshop, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 23, 2014.
• Co-organizer of the NewsReader Hackaton, June 10, 2014, London, United Kingdom.
• Co-organizer of the OpeNER Hackaton,  May 26, 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland.
• Co-organizer of the NewsReader workshop, May 14, 2014, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
• Co-organizer and speaker on “Digital Humanities: Hype or Revolution – Part 3: ”Het gezicht van de sociale media“ at Spui25,  Amsterdam, the Netherlands, February 6, 2014.
• Chair and Co-organizer of the 7th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2014), January 25-29, 2014, Tartu, Estonia.
• Co-organizer and speaker on “Digital Humanities: Hype or Revolution – Part 2: ”De Gouden Eeuw: de ontsluiting van een schatkamer aan informatie“at Spui25,  Amsterdam, the Netherlands, January 21, 2014.

2013

• Co-organizer and speaker on “Digital Humanities: Hype or Revolution – Part 1: ”De digitale kaart van Landschap, Architectuur en Verstedelijking“ at Spui25,  Amsterdam, the Netherlands, December 10, 2013.
• Co-organizer of the Workshop @the Dutch House of Representatives, Den Haag, the Netherlands, September 19, 2013
• Co-organizer of the Hackathon on Text Mining & Big Data, Studio K, July 2, 2013, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (see also facebook event).

2012

• Co-organizer of the DutchSemCor Workshop, October 25, 2012, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
• Chair and Co-Organizer of the 6th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2012), January 9-13, 2012, Matsue, Japan

2011

• Co-organizer of the 2nd KYOTO Workshop “Advanced Information Systems for sharing information and Knowledge about the Environment“, January 25-28, 2011, Gifu, Japan.

2010

• Co-organizer of OntoLex 2010: 6th Workshop on “Ontologies and Lexical Resources”, COLING, August 21-22, 2010, Beijing, China.
• Co-organizer of SemEval-2010: 5th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations on Kyoto‘s subtask WSD17: All-words Word Sense Disambiguation on a Specific Domain, workshop collocation: ACL2010, July 11-16, Uppsala, Sweden.
• Co-organizer of the CAMeRA-project “From Text to Political Positions (T2PP)” Workshop “Mining for Meaning”, VU University Amsterdam, April 9-10, 2010.
• Chair and Co-organizer of the 5th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2010), Mumbai, India, January 31 – February 4, 2010.

2009

• Organizer of the 1st Workshop of Kyoto, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, February 2-3, 2009.

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, Marrakech, Turkey, May 31, 2008.
• Organizer of the DutchSemCor Workshop, Vrije University Amsterdam, May 16, 2008.
• Chair and 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, Poznan, Poland, October 5-7, 2007.
• 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, Trento, Italy, February 3-4, 2005.

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.