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Activities

Research Organizations and Consortia

• 2011--2014: Coordination of the CLARIN-D expert group F-AG7 specializing on language resources and tools for Applied and Computational Linguistics and their use in Digital Humanities research.
• 2009--2012: Nominating Committee member of the EACL,
  the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
• 2005--2008: Executive Board member and Secretary of the EACL,
  the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
• 2001--2004: Officer of the executive committee of the International Lexical-Functional Grammar Association, ILFGA
• since 2000: Member of the ACL Special Interest Group for Computational Semantics

Editoral activities

• Editorial board of the Journal of Language Modeling (JLM).
• Editorial Board of Linguistic Issues in Language Technology (LiLT), a new online journal published by CSLI, Stanford.
• Co-Editor, with Annie Zaenen, of the Computational and Mathematical Linguistics Section of the
  Language and Linguistics Compass, a new online journal of Blackwell Publishers. (2007--2010)

Workshops

• 10th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories, Heidelberg University
  
• Multi-lingual Semantic Annotation: Theory and Applications
  Workshop jointly organised by SALSA and Berkeley FrameNet.
• Beyond Parseval - Towards improved Evaluation Methods for Parsing Systems
  Workshop of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2002, Gran Canaria
  (with J. Carroll, D. Lin, D. Prescher, H. Uszkoreit)

Invited Talks

• Corpus-based Learning of Formal Semantic Concepts: Genericity and Presupposition.
  Invited talk in the Linguistics Department Research Seminar, University of Geneva, April 2013.
• Annotation of Modal Meanings -- where formal semantics can help and where it cannot.
  Invited speaker of the IWCS 2013 Workshop ``Annotation of Modal Meanings in Natural Languag'', Potsdam, March 2013.
• Corpus-based Learning of Formal Semantic Concepts: Genericity, Presupposition and more.
  Invited talk in the Linguistics Colloquium of Ruhr-Universität Bochum, January 2013.
• Large-Scale Fine-Grained Named Entity Classification: Can we characterise the meanings of Named Entities and their classes distributionally?.
  Invited talk at 10. Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache (KONVENS 2010), Saarbrücken, September 7, 2010.
• Syntaktische Variation - aus computerlinguistischer Sicht. Workshop: Korpora und die Grammatik des Standarddeutschen. Institut für Detusche Sprache, Mannheim, June 18, 2010.
• Networks of Linguistic Annotation: The Linguist's Web.
  Invited talk at the Workshop ULA: Unified Linguistic Annotation --Transcontinental Perspectives, Bergen, December 5-6, 2007. Abstract.
• Across Languages and Paradigms: New Perspectives for Resource Acquisition, Grammar Engineering and Application,
  Invited talk at the ACL 2007 Workshop on Deep Linguistic Processing, Prague, June 28, 2007.
• Working with Frames: Annotating a German Corpus with Frames -- and using them for NLP.
  Invited talk at the Swedish Language Technology Conference Göteborg, Schweden, October 28, 2006.
• Approximating Textual Entailment with LFG and FrameNet Frames. Invited talk at the Edinburgh Friday Seminars Talk Series, School of Computing, University of Edinburgh, March 2006.

An overview of older talks is found here

Community Services

Reviewing for German and International Research Funding Organisations

• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG
• Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung
• Schweizerischer Nationalfonds, SNF
• Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, ESPRC

Program Committees and Reviewing

(starting again 2007)

• *SEM 2013, Atlanta, USA
• ACL 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria
• GSCL 2013, Darmstadt
• IWCS 2013, Potsdam
• COLING 2012, Mumbai, India
• ACRH-2, 2012, Lisbon, Portugal
• TLT 11, 2012, Lisbon, Portugal
• EMNLP 2012, Jeju, Korea
• *SEM 2012, Montreal, Canada
• NAACL-HLT 2012 Workshop: Building Educational Applications, Montreal, Canada
• ACL 2012 Workshop: The People’s Web meets NLP 2012, Jeju, Korea
• ACL 2012, Jeju, Korea
• LFG 2012, Bali
• ACRH 2012, Heidelberg
• TLT 2012, Heidelberg
• Language Resources and Evaluation: Special Issue on Collaboratively Constructed Language Resources, 2011
• TextInfer 2011, Edinburgh
• EMNLP 2011, Edinburgh
• ACL-HLT 2011, Redmont
• IWCS 2011, Oxford
• LFG 2011, Hong Kong
• TLT-9, 2010, Tartu
• KONVENS 2010, Saarbrücken
• COLING 2010, Beijing, The People's Web meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources
• NAACL-HLT 2010: Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA-5)
• ECAI 2010, Lisbon
• ACL 2010, Uppsala
• LFG 2010, Ottawa
• TLT8 2009, Milan
• GSCL 2009, Potsdam
• EMNLP 2009, Singapore
• LFG 2009, Cambridge
• ECIR 2009: First Geographic Information on the Internet Workshop (GIIW), Toulouse
• ACL 2009: Workshop on Applied Textual Inference and Paraphrasing (TextInfer), Athens
• EACL 2009, Athens
• IWCS-8 2009, Tilburg
• TLT-7 2009, Groningen (Reviewing and Program Chair)
• Konvens 2008, Berlin
• ACL-2008 Workshop on Parsing German, Toronto
• International LFG Annual Conference 2008, Sydney
• Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Special Issue on Textual Entailment, 2008
• Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 2008
• Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Special Issue on Interactive Question Answering, 2007

An older overview is found here