2015:
- Invited talk on NewsReader at De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, December 3, 2015 (given by Piek Vossen)
- Panelist at the BIG DATA DEBAT at the EUREKA! Festival, Westergasfabriek Amsterdam, location Westerliefde, November 29, 2015 (given by Piek Vossen)
- Keynote on NewsReader at the seminar on “Kunstmatige Intelligentie en Officiële Statistiek” (“Artificial Intelligence and Official Statistics”), organized by CBS, Den Haag, November 23, 2015 (given by Piek Vossen)
- Invited talk at Conferentie Onderzoeksjournalistiek “Beter zoeken, dieper graven”, Vereniging van Onderzoeksjournalisten (VVOJ), Nationaal Archief Den Haag, 20-21 november 2015 (given by Piek Vossen)
- Keynote at DataDonderdag, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, November 19, 2015 (given by Piek Vossen)
- Keynote the 1st OpenMinTeD Interoperability Workshop, the Hague, the Netherlands, November 12, 2015 (given by Piek Vossen)
- Invited lecture at Elsevier Labs Online Lectures, Amsterdam, November 10, 2015 (given by Piek Vossen)
- Invited talk @ launch of Data Journal by Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), October 20, 2015 (given by Piek Vossen)
- Presentation at Consuming Linked Data Workshop “LOTUS: Linked Open Text UnleaShed”. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA. 12 October 2015 (given by Filip Ilievski)
- Presentation at NLP&DBpedia workshop “Missing Mr. Brown and buying an Abraham Lincoln – Dark Entities and DBpedia”. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA. 11 October 2015 (given by Marieke van Erp)
- Keynote at the e-Humanities Social Sciences track (co-organised with KNAW) of the 3rd National eScience Symposium “the “Accelerating Scientific Discovery Symposium” (Escience Symposium2015) by the Netherlands eScience Center, Amsterdam Arena, October 8, 2015 (given by Piek Vossen)
- Keynote on “Modelling provenance and perspectives in Biographical data” at the Wiener Tagung 2015 “Europa baut auf Biographien“, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Hofburg), Wien, October 6, 2015 (given by Piek Vossen)
- Keynote at Platform Linked Data, Beeld en Geluid, Hilversum, September 25, 2015 (given by Piek Vossen)
- Keynote at Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2015), September 5-11, 2015, Hissar, Bulgaria (given by Piek Vossen)
- Keynote at Datathon on ‘Linguistic Linked Open Data’, Residencia Lucas Olazábal of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in Cercedilla, Spain, june 2015 (given by Piek Vossen)
- Keynote “VOGIN-IP-lezing” at Symposium on Search and Find, organized by Stichting VOGIN and magazine InformatieProfessional, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, March 26, 2015 (given by Piek Vossen)
- Keynote at Converging Media Conference 2015, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, March 24, 2015 (given by Piek Vossen)
- Guest lecture on Text Mining, Faculty of Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 10 March 2015 (given by Piek Vossen)
- Presentation at CLIN 2015, Antwerp, Belgium, January 6, 2015 (given by Piek Vossen)
- Invited speaker at publiekssymposium on Computational Thinking, KNAW, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, January 28, 2015 (given by Piek Vossen)
- Oral presentation at the SemEval workshop (June 5 2015): “SemEval-2015 Task 4: TimeLine: Cross-Document Event Ordering” and “HLT-FBK: a Complete Temporal Processing System for QA TempEval” (both given by Anne-Lyse Minard)
- Oral presentation at SAC2015 Conference: “Processing Billions of RDF Triples on a Single Machine using Streaming and Sorting”. Salamanca, Spain. April 13 – 17, 2015. (given by Marco Rospocher)
- Oral presentation at the “Deep and Large-Scale Semantic Processing Workshop” in FBK: “Integrating Unstructured and Structured Data in the Knowledge Store”. Trento, March 10, 2015. (given by Marco Rospocher)
- Oral presentation at the “Beni Comuni Digitali” event, organized by FBK, held in Riva del Garda, Italy, March 18, 2015: “Dati e Ricerca” (given by Marco Rospocher)
- Oral presentation at DeRiVE2015 Workshop: “A Contextual Framework for Reasoning on Events”. 31 May – 4 June, Portoroz, Slovenia. (given by Loris Bozzato)
- Oral presentation at CILC2015 Conference: “A Contextual Framework for Reasoning on Events”. Genova, 1-3 luglio 2015. (given by Loris Bozzato)
- Oral presentation at CLiC-it 2015 Conference (December 4): “FacTA: Evaluation of Event Factuality and Temporal Anchoring” (given by Anne-Lyse Minard)
- Short Paper / Poster presentation at EMNLP2015 Conference: “Recognizing Bio- graphical Sections in Wikipedia”. September 17-21, 2015, Lisbon, Portugal. (given by Alessio Palmero Aprosio)
- Poster presentation at CLiC-it 2015 Conference (December 4): “Cross-language pro- jection of multilayer semantic annotation in the NewsReader Wikinews Italian Corpus (WItaC)” (given by Manuela Speranza)
- Presentation at CLIN 2015, Antwerp, Belgium, January 6, 2015 (given by Tommaso Caselli, in collaboration with Antske Fokkens, Roser Morante and Piek Vossen)
- Guest lecture on Text Mining, Faculty of Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 10 March 2015 (given by Piek Vossen)
- Invited presentation at the Symposium “Digitale historische kranten als ‘big data’” (digital historic newspapers as ‘big data’). Royal Library of the Netherlands, The Hague (given by Antske Fokkens)
- Presentation “What do you think? Unfolding perspectives in text” at the Executive Board’s yearly visit to the Faculty of Humanities. May 8th, 2015 (given by Antske Fokkens)
- Presentation “Storylines for structuring big data?” at the Executive Board’s yearly visit to the Faculty of Humanities. May 8th, 2015 (given by Tommaso Caselli)
- Invited talk at XXXI Congreso de la Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, SEPNL 2015, 16-18 September 2015, Alicante, Spain; Title: Natural Language Processing in Context: Perspectives for Text Interpretation. (given by Bernardo Magnini)
- Demo presentation at ISWC2015 Conference: “Demonstrating the Power of Stream- ing and Sorting for Non-distributed RDF Processing: RDFpro”. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA. 13 October 2015. (given by Marco Rospocher)
- Demo presentation at ISWC2015 Conference: “Extracting Knowledge from Text with PIKES”. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA. 13 October 2015 (given by Marco Rospocher)
- Presentation at NLP&DBpedia workshop “Missing Mr. Brown and buying an Abraham Lincoln – Dark Entities and DBpedia”. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA. 11 October 2015 (given by Marieke van Erp)
- Presentation at Consuming Linked Data Workshop “LOTUS: Linked Open Text UnleaShed”. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA. 12 October 2015 (given by Filip Ilievski)
- Invited talk at the Car Wars Workshop and Hackathon, Amsterdam, 24 & 25 November 2015: Title: Language and Knowledge: Toward Understanding Multimedia Con- tent. (given by Bernardo Magnini)
- Keynote at the ‘Social Media: Incubators of a renewed news media landscape?’ Symposium. “NewsReader: unfolding stories and perspectives in large amounts of data”. Leuven (Belgium), November 27 2015 (given by Antske Fokkens)
- Panelist at the ‘Social Media: Incubators of a renewed news media landscape?’ Symposium. Leuven (Belgium). November 27, 2015 (Antske Fokkens)
- Invited seminar at IRIT, University of Toulouse, December 10, 2015; Title: Reconstructing TimeLines in the KNOWLEDGESTORE. (given by Bernardo Magnini)
- Invited talk at the Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Linked Open Data (NLP&LOD2), September 11th 2015, Collocated with RANLP 2015, Hissar, Bulgaria Title: Cross-lingual Event Detection in Discourse (given by Piek Vossen and German Rigau)
- NewsReader project. Representative of SETSI (Secretaría de Estado de Telecomunicaciones y Sociedad de la Informacio ́n). San Sebastián, Spain. September 16th, 2015.
- NLP & Linked Data: OpeNER and NewsReader. Lider project workshop on “Datos Enlazados y Multilinguismo”. Madrid, Spain. October 20, 2015 (given by German Rigau)
- NewsReader presentation at CENDOJ (Centro de Documentacio ́n Judicial). San Sebastián, Spain. January 22, 2016 (given by German Rigau)
2014:
- Piek Vossen: invited keynote speaker at De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, December 18, 2014.
- Itziar Aldabe and Rubén Urizar. IXA Seminar on NewsReader. Donostia, Spain, 2 December 2014
- Piek Vossen: Presentation on BiographyNet, Meertens Instituut, November 30, 2014
- Piek Vossen: invited keynote speaker at Studium Generale, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, the Netherlands, November 19, 2014.
- Marieke van Erp: “Nieuwe Namen Leren Linken” (poster presentation) at TiNT 2014 The Hague, 14 November 2014
- Bernardo Magnini: Invited talk on “Al tempo nel linguaggio” at “Festival della Scienza” Genova, October 24 & November 2, 2014.
- Piek Vossen: presentation at 1st Spinoza Workshop, VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands, October 17, 2014
- Piek Vossen Tafelwetenschapper met sidekick Antse Fokkkens on the 15th Avond van Wetenschap & Maatschappij, 6 oktober 2014, Ridderzaal, Den Haag, the Netherlands, October 6, 2014.
- Marco Rospocher: FBK Seminar on “KnowledgeStore”, Trento, Italy, 4 November 2014
- Piek Vossen: invited keynote speaker on “Gollandskaja sreda”: Dutch Wednesday 2014 at Nederlands Instituut in St. Petersburg (NIP), Russia, October 29, 2014.
- Marco Rospocher: ISWC Developers Workshop talk : “A Simple API to the KnowledgeStore”, Riva del Garda, Italy, 19 October 2014
- Bernardo Magnini: Invited Seminar at Darmstadt University (TU), UKP group, 16 October 2014. Title: “The KNOWLEDGE STORE: an Integrated Framework for Ontology Population”
- Piek Vossen: invited keynote speaker at UiL-OTS Colloquium, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, Utrecht, the Netherlands, September 19, 2014.
- German Rigau: Projects presentations (Roundtable) at SEPLN2014, Girona, Spain, 14 September 2014
- Marieke van Erp, Guest Lecture Richness of the World Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands 2 September 2014.
- Marieke van Erp, presentation at Computational Models of Narrative 2014, 30 July – 1 August, Quebec City, Canada [slides]
- Piek Vossen: Presentation on NewsReader: recording history from daily news streams, 9th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2014), 26-31 May, 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland.
- Piek Vossen: invited talk on the Collaborative Inter-Lingual-Index for harmonizing wordnets at 3rd Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics: Multilingual Knowledge Resources and Natural Language Processing, Reykjavik, Iceland, May, 27 2014 [slides].
- Piek Vossen: Guest lecture on Text Mining, Faculty of Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, May 1, 2014.
- Piek Vossen: invited keynote speaker at Dell / Oracle conference, Utrecht, the Netherlands, April 23, 2014.
- Piek Vossen: VU Publiekslezing on “In zeven stappen naar totaal onbegrip”, VU University Amsterdam, Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, April 18, 2014 (see video).
- Piek Vossen: Invited keynote speaker at Toptoets 2014, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, April 16, 2014 (more info).
- Piek Vossen: Invited keynote speaker at the joint workshop on data-driven research and big-data, organized by the Netherlands eScience Center and with Vereniging voor Wetenschapsjournalistiek en – communicatie Nederland (VWN), Trippenhuis, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, April 11, 2014.
- Piek Vossen: Invited keynote speaker at Hannover Messe 2014 by het ministerie van Economische Zaken of the Netherlands, ScienceGuide en Platform Beta Techniek @ Holland Paviljoen: Das Glashaus, Hannover, Germany, April 10, 2014.
- Piek Vossen: invited Spinoza Lecture on “Ontsnappen aan de gesloten wereld van Taal”, lecture on Spinoza prize 2013 and the Vossen-Spinoza projects, VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, April 8, 2014 (see video).
- Piek Vossen: invited keynote speaker at European Data Form 2014 (EDF2014), Athens, Greece, March 19-20, 2014.
- Piek Vossen: Invited keynote speaker at Studium Generale Amersfoort by De Spullenmannen, Amersfoort, the Netherlands, March 9 , 2014.
- Piek Vossen: Invited lecture for Alumni Letteren, VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, February 14, 2014.
- Piek Vossen: Invited keynote speaker on “Kunnen computers ooit de taal van mensen begrijpen“ at the “Specialistenserie”: theme: Imitation, Museon, Den Haag, the Netherlands, February 7, 2014.
- Piek Vossen: Invited organizer and keynote speaker on “Digital Humanities: Hype or Revolution – Part 3: ”Het gezicht van de sociale media“ at Spui25, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, February 6, 2014 (see video).
- Antske Fokkens: presentation on NewsReader at the 1st DBpedia Community Meeting, Amsterdam 30 January 2014.
- Piek Vossen: Invited organizer and keynote 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 (see video).
- Piek Vossen: interview at Kenniscafé Almere, organized by Plusbibliotheek Flevoland, Windesheim, Flevoland and the Open Universiteit, Almere, the Netherlands, January 23, 2014.
- Marieke van Erp: Presentation at CLIN24, Leiden, the Netherlands, 17 January 2014. [slides]
2013:
- Luciano Serafini: Presentation at the Trento Workshop on Fact checking, 2013
- Piek Vossen in the “Nationale Wetenschapsquiz“, national television, December 29, 2013.
- Piek Vossen: video-interview VPRO.
- Piek Vossen: video-interview on NewsReader in “De Voorlopers”, SURFnet & Fast Moving Targets.
- Piek Vossen: Invited keynote speaker on NewsReader at Studium Generale: one presentation for foreign students (knowledge engineering, european studies, university college) in English: “the History Recorder: Today’s News is Tomorrow’s History” and one presentation for broader public of region Maastricht (HOVO-publiek) in Dutch: “De geschiedenisrecorder: het nieuws van vandaag is de geschiedenis van morgen“, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands, December 9, 2013.
- Piek Vossen: Invited keynote speaker at NOTaS-event Taal in Bedrijf 2013, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, November 29, 2013.
- Piek Vossen: Invited keynote speaker at ICT.OPEN 2013, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, November 27-28, 2013.
- Piek Vossen: Invited keynote speaker @ “Gala van de Amsterdamse Wetenschap“, in cooperation with Parool and Folia, Stadsschouwburg, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, November 26, 2013 (buy tickets).
- Piek Vossen: Invited keynote speaker at 1st Annual Netherlands eScience Symposium, by Netherlands eScience Center (NLeSC), The Rosarium, Amstel Park, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, November 7, 2013.
- Antske Fokkens: Presentation on NewsReader at the CLTL/CLS Symposium on Text Mining, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, November 13, 2013.
- Antske Fokkens and Marieke van Erp: Invited speakers at LandS research meeting, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, November 13, 2013.
- Thomas Ploeger: Presentation at the DeRiVE 2013 Workshop. “Extractivism. Extracting activist events from news articles using existing NLP tools”. Sydney, Australia, October 21, 2013. (slides)
- Marieke van Erp: Poster presentation on NewsReader at The 12th International Semantic Web Conference, Sydney, Australia, October 23, 2013 (video trailer)
- Marieke van Erp: Invited talk at Schwa lab, The University of Sydney, School of Information Technologies, Sydney, Australia, October 22, 2013.
- Piek Vossen: Invited keynote speaker at Nederlandse Vrouwenclub Amsterdam/Internationale Lyceumclub, Industrieele Groote Club, Amsterdam, October 16, 2013.
- Piek Vossen: Invited guest on Spinoza Prize and NewsReader @ “OBA Live” with Theodor Holman, Openbare Bibliotheek (OBA), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, October 11, 2013.
- Piek Vossen: Invited keynote speaker on NewsReader at the Weekend van de Wetenschap in samenwerking met het Klokhuis – thema: Zoek het uit!, organized by Ministerie van OC&W for children of 8-12 years, Weekend of Science, Museon, Den Haag, the Netherlands, October 5, 2013.
- Presentation by Vossen on Spinoza-price, awarded by State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science Mr Sander Dekker and NWO Chairman Professor Jos Engelen, Nieuwe Kerk Den Haag, the Netherlands, September 27, 2013.
- Piek Vossen: National radio interview @ BNR Newsradio, September 27, 2013.
- Marco Rospocher: Presentation on “Interlinking Unstructured and Structured Knowledge in an Integrated Framework” at the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (IEEE-ICSC2013), Irvine, USA, September 16-18, 2013.
- Piek Vossen: Invited keynote speaker on NewsReader at ‘Informatie aan Zee‘, a 2-day conference by the Flemish Association for Library, Archive and Documentation (VVBAD), Oostende, September 13, 2013.
- Bernardo Magnini: Seminary on “The KNOWLEDGESTORE: an Integrated Framework for Ontology Population” at INRIA, Nice, France, September 6, 2013.
- Piek Vossen: Invited panel member at the Workshop on the Lexicon in Functional Discourse Grammar, Vienna, Austria, September 5-6, 2013.
- Antske Fokkens and Marieke van Erp: Presentation at the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2013), August 4-9, 2013, Bulgaria Sofia (video trailer , slides , video of the presentation)
- Antske Fokkens: Invited speaker on NewsReader at the DELPH-IN Summit Linked Open Data and DELPH-IN
- Piek Vossen: Invited guest at round table meeting with Stichting de Nationale DenkTank on conference on Big Data in 2014, October 10, 2013.Piek Vossen: Invited interview on Big Data @national newspaper Volkskrant, August, 2013.
- Antske Fokkens: Invited speaker on NewsReader at the Annual Network Institute Event, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 4, 2013.
- Piek Vossen: presentation of GAF framework at the 1st Workshop on EVENTS: Definition, Detection, Coreference, and Representation, in conjunction with NAACL-HLT, Atlanta, GA, USA, June 14, 2013.
- Marieke van Erp: Invited speaker on “From Events to Stories: Different ways of structuring the same bag of events over time“, at Soeterbeeck eHumanities Workshop, a 2-day workshop bringing together researchers working in humanities and ehumanities. Ravenstein, the Netherlands, June 13-14, 2013.
- Piek Vossen: Invited guest @ national radio ”Dit is de Dag“, Hilversum, the Netherlands, July 23, 2013.
- Piek Vossen: Invited guest @ regional radio L1 De Stemming, café Forum, Maastricht, the Netherlands, June 30, 2013.
- Piek Vossen: interview Quest on Spinoza Prize, special issue NWO / Experiment NL, 2013.
- Itziar Aldabe: Presentation on “Similarity-Feature Based Approach for Student Response Analysis” at the Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), Volume 2: Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2013), Atlanta, USA, June 14-15, 2013.
- Piek Vossen: Interview in regional newspaper Weespernieuws, August 7, 2013.
- Bernardo Magnini and Tommaso Caselli ”Events in Computational Linguistics“ at the FBK workshop Perspectives on events, Povo, Italy, July 18, 2013
- Itziar Aldabe: Presentation on “Similarity-Feature Based Approach for Student Response Analysis” at the Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), Volume 2: Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2013), Atlanta, USA, June 14-15, 2013.
- Piek Vossen: interview @national newspaper Parool, June 11, 2013.
- Piek Vossen: interview @national newspaper Volkskrant, June 11, 2013.
- Piek Vossen: interview @national newspaper Trouw, June 11, 2013.
- Piek Vossen: interview @national newspaper Algemeen Dagblad, June 11, 2013.
- Piek Vossen: interview @national newspaper NRC Handelsblad, June 11, 2013.
- Piek Vossen: interview @ national newspaper NRC Next, June 11, 2013.
- Piek Vossen: interview @Kennislink, June 10, 2013.
- Piek Vossen: interview in New Scientist, June 10, 2013.
- Piek Vossen:: interview @Ad Valvas, June 11, 2013.
- Piek Vossen: interview @national radio NOS Nieuws, Radio 1, June 10, 2013.
- Piek Vossen: interview @national radio NTR Hoe?Zo! Radio, June 10, 2013.
- Piek Vossen: invited talk on “Processing large streams of news in the NewsReader project” at the Center for Creation, Content and Technology (CCCT), University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, May 24, 2013.
- Piek Vossen: Invited keynote speaker on “Do big data hide or reveal stories? Recording history in the NewsReader project” at the workshop “Computational Humanities, reference cultures and identity formation”, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), Wassenaar, the Netherlands, April 24-26, 2013.
- Piek Vossen: Invited keynote speaker on “The news of today writes the history for the future Recording history in the NewsReader project” at the Dijksterhuislezing 2013, Stichting Academisch Erfgoed( SAE), VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, April 19, 2013 (presentation in Dutch).
- Egoitz Laparra: Presentation on “Sources of Evidence for Implicit Argument Resolution”, at the 10th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS2013). Postdam, Germany, March 19-22, 2013.
- Luciano Serafini: Presentation on “CKR: a general framework for context in Semantic Web (Theory, prototype and extension to ASP)“, VU University Amsterdam, February 28, 2013.
- Marieke van Erp: Presentation on “NewsReader: Automating detective work” at PoliMedia Symposium, VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, January 23, 2013.
- Luciano Serafini: Presentation on NewsReader at “Facts, Truths, Argumentations“, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy, January 18, 2013.
2012:
- Piek Vossen: Invited speaker in Casa Luna, Dutch radio interview on new EU-project NewsReader, Mediapark, Hilversum, October 8, 2012
- announcement video on Youtube by Casa Luna;
- @ Radio 1, NCRV Casa Luna, part 1 (on NewsReader)
- @ Radio 1, NCRV Casa Luna, part 2 (live interaction with listeners)
- Blog from Marco Leeuwerink on the interview at Casa Luna on Extend Limits.
- Piek Vossen: Invited speaker in Dutch radio interview on new EU-project NewsReader, in Radio Station FunX, Amsterdam, May 10, 2012.
- press release on Newsreader by Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam VU, May 2, 2012.