Talks & Presentations

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: ImitationMuseon, 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]
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