Events

Upcoming Workshops & Conferences to organize by members of the NewsReader team:

  • 8th Global WordNet Conference 2016 (GWC2016), fc. to be organized by VUA (Piek Vossen).
  • Conference on Big Data in 2014, fc. to be organized by Stichting de Nationale DenkTank and VUA (Piek Vossen).
  • SemEval2015 Task 4: FBK (Anne-Lyse Minard, Manuela Speranza, Bernardo Magnini), VUA (Marieke van Erp), EHU (Itziar Aldabe, Rubén Urizar, Eneko Agirre, German Rigau),  co-located with NAACL HLT, May 31 – June 5, 2015, Denver, Colorado, USA.
Organized conferences and workshops  by members of the NewsReader team:
  • The 7th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2014), organized by University of Tartu, Ch, Fellbaum and VUA-Piek Vossen, January 25-29, 2014, Tartu, Estonia
  • Workshop on “Digital Humanities: Hype or Revolution – Part 3 ”Het gezicht van de sociale media“ at Spui25,  February 6, 2014, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, organized by NWO, KNAW and VUA (Piek Vossen).
  • Workshop on “Digital Humanities: Hype or Revolution – Part 2 ”De Gouden Eeuw: de ontsluiting van een schatkamer aan informatie“ at Spui25,  January 21, 2014, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, organized by NWO, KNAW and VUA (Piek Vossen).
  • Workshop on “Digital Humanities: Hype or Revolution – Part 1 ”De digitale kaart van Landschap, Architectuur en Verstedelijking“ at Spui25, December 10, 2013, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, organized by NWO, KNAW and VUA (Piek Vossen).
  • Symposium on Events and Text Mining, Radboud University Nijmegen, organized by CLTL (VUA) and CLS (Nijmegen), November 13th 2013, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
  • Detection, Representation and Exploitation of Events in the Semantic Web (DeRiVE 2013) at ISWC2013, organized by VUA (Marieke van Erp) and others: Sydney, Australia, October 21-25, 2013.
  • LISC2013, workshop on 3rd International Workshop on Linked Science 2013 –Supporting  Reproducibility, Scientific Investigations and Experiments, organized by VUA (Marieke van Erp) and others: Sydney, Australia, October 21 2013.
  • Semantic Web and Information Extraction Worksho (SWAIE 2013),  2nd Workshop on Semantic Web and Information Extraction, organized by VUA (Marieke van Erp) and others, September 12, 2013, Hissar, Bulgaria (in conjunction with RANLP 2013)
  • Workshop “Perspective on Events”, organized by FBK (Luciano Serafini), July 18, 2013, Povo, Italy.
Shared tasks organized by members of the NewsReader team:
  • SemEval2015 Task 4: TimeLine: Cross-Document Event Ordering. Organizers: Anne-Lyse Minard, Manuela Speranza, Bernardo Magnini, Marieke van Erp, Itziar Aldabe, Rubén Urizar, Eneko Agirre, German Rigau.
  • Eventi at EVALITA 2014. Organizers: Tommaso Caselli, Rachele Sprugnoli, Manuela Speranza and Monica Monachini.

Upcoming Workshops & Conferences to attend by members of the NewsReader team:

  • 9th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2014): VUA (Piek Vossen, Isa Maks, Antske Fokkens, Marieke van Erp, Agata Cybulska, Ruben Izquirdo), EHU and FBK, May 26-31 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland.
  • 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL2014): FBK, April 26-30, 2014, Gothenburg, Sweden.
  • European Data Form 2014 (EDF2014): VUA (Piek Vossen) Athens, Greece, March 19-20, 2014.
  • The 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014), Riva del Garda, Italy, 19-23 October 2014,
  • 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2014), Dublin, Ireland,  25-29 August, 2014.

Attended Workshops & Conferences by members of the NewsReader team:

  • Specialistenserie”: theme: Imitation, wetenschapslezing Museon: VUA (Piek Vossen), Den Haag, the Netherlands, February 7, 2014
  • Workshop on “Digital Humanities: Hype or Revolution – Part 3 ”Het gezicht van de sociale media“ at Spui25: VUA (Piek Vossen)  Amsterdam, the Netherlands, February 6, 2014.
  • Workshop on “Digital Humanities: Hype or Revolution – Part 2 ”De Gouden Eeuw: de ontsluiting van een schatkamer aan informatie“ “: VUA (Piek Vossen) at Spui25,  Amsterdam, the Netherlands, January 21, 2014.
  • 7th Global WordNet Conference (GWC2014): VUA (Piek Vossen/Marten Posma), EHU (German Rigau/Eneko Agirre), January 25-29, 2014, Tartu, Estonia.
  • CLIN24: VUA (Marieke van Erp), Leiden, the Netherlands, 17 January 2014
  • Workshop on “Digital Humanities: Hype or Revolution – Part 1 ”De digitale kaart van Landschap, Architectuur en Verstedelijking“: VUA (Piek Vossen) at Spui25,  Amsterdam, the Netherlands, December 10, 2013.
  • Studium Generale Maastricht University: VUA (Piek Vossen), Maastricht, the Netherlands, December 9, 2013.
  • NOTaS-event Taal in Bedrijf 2013: VUA (Piek Vossen), Nijmegen, the Netherlands, November 29, 2013.
  • ICT.OPEN 2013: VUA (Piek Vossen) Eindhoven, the Netherlands, November 27-28, 2013.
  • 1st Annual Netherlands eScience Symposium, by Netherlands eScience Center (NLeSC): VUA (Piek Vossen) The Rosarium, Amstel Park, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, November 7, 2013.
  • DeRiVE 2013, workshop on event detection, representation, reasoning, and visualization, at ISWC2013: VUA (Marieke van Erp) and SYN (Thomas Ploeger), Sydney, Australia, October 21-25, 2013.
  • LISC 2013, LISC2013 (http://linkedscience.org/events/lisc2013/), workshop on 3rd International Workshop on Linked Science 2013 –Supporting  Reproducibility, Scientific Investigations and Experiments, organized by VUA and others: Sydney, Australia, October 21 2013.  VUA (Marieke van Erp) and SYN (Thomas Ploeger), Sydney, Australia, October 21-25, 2013.
  • International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2013) Sydney, Australia, October 21-25, 2013. VUA (Marieke van Erp) and SYN (Thomas Ploeger).
  • Workshop on Big Data Conference 2014, Stichting de Nationale DenkTank: VUA (Piek Vossen), October 10, 2013.
  • FBK (Marco Rospocher) attended 7th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (IEEE-ICSC2013), Irvine, CA, USA, 2013, Knowledge Store for NewsReader, September 16-18, 2013.
  • Informatie aan Zee‘, a 2-day conference by the Flemish Association for Library, Archive and Documentation (VVBAD): VUA (Piek Vossen), Oostende, September 13, 2013.
  • Workshop on the Lexicon in Functional Discourse Grammar: VUA (Piek Vossen) Vienna, Austria, September 5-6, 2013.
  • Bernardo Magnini: a seminary at INRIA (Nice) on “The KNOWLEDGESTORE: an Integrated Framework for Ontology Population”
  • The 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2013): FBK (Sara Tonelli) and VUA (Marieke van Erp/Antske Fokkens), Sofia, Bulgaria, August 4-7, 2013.
  • Delph-in Summit: VUA (Antske Fokkens). Linked Open Data and DELPH-IN. St. Wendel, Germany. July 29, 2013.
  • Bernardo Magnini and Tommaso Caselli ”Events in Computational Linguistics“ at the FBK workshop Perspectives on events, Povo, Italy, July 18, 2013
  • Annual Network Institute Event: VUA (Antske Fokkens), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 4, 2013.
  • NWR at OpeNER hackathon: VUA-NWR team-members participated in the Natural Language Processing, Text Mining and Big Data Hackathon organised by colleagues from the OpeNER project. During this hackathon, some 50 participants (amongst others developers, linguists, designers and historians) got together to put current state-of-the-art language technology through a little stress test in some actual use cases, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 2, 2013.
  • The 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL/HLT 2013): EHU (Eneko Agirre, Itziar Aldabe), Atlanta, USA, June 9-15, 2013.
  • Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM). The Seventh International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2013) : EHU (Eneko Agirre, Itziar Aldabe), Atlanta, USA, June 14-15, 2013.
  • The 1st Workshop on EVENTS: Definition, Detection, Coreference, and Representation, in conjunction with NAACL-HLT: VUA (Piek Vossen), Atlanta, GA, USA, June 14, 2013.
  • The Soeterbeeck eHumanities Workshop: VUA (Marieke van Erp), Ravenstein, the Netherlands, June 13-14, 2013.
  • Data Science London: SW (Ian Hopkinson) on June 12th, entitled “Scraping and parsing PDFs in Python”
  • The Seminar of Center for Creation, Content and Technology (CCCT): VUA (Piek Vossen), University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, May 24, 2013.
  • The workshop “Computational Humanities, reference cultures and identity formation”, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS): VUA (Piek Vossen), Wassenaar, the Netherlands, April 24-26, 2013.
  • The Dijksterhuislezing 2013, Stichting Academisch Erfgoed( SAE): VUA (Piek Vossen), VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, April 19, 2013
  • 10th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS’13) : EHU (Egoitz Laparra, German Rigau), Potsdam, Germany, March 19-22, 2013.
  • PoliMedia Symposium: VU (Marieke van Erp), VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, January 23, 2013
  • Facts, Truths, Argumentations“, (FBK: Luciano Serafini), Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy, January 18, 2013.