Curriculum Vitae

Peter Paul Buitelaar

Date of Birth: September 23rd, 1963

Place of Birth: Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Nationality: Dutch

Education

1992-1998: PhD (Computer Science) CoreLex: Systematic Polysemy and Underspecification Dept. of Computer Science, Brandeis University, Waltham, USA

1986-1990: MA (Computational Linguistics) Disambiguation with Lexical Knowledge in a Natural Language Interface to Databases Dept. of Linguistics, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands

1983-1986: Dept. of German Language and Literature, University of Leiden, the Netherlands

Employment

Jan. 2009 - now: Senior Research Fellow & Adjunct Lecturer, DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway

March 1998 - Dec. 2008: Senior Researcher, Department of Language Technology, DFKI GmbH, Saarbruecken, Germany

Dec. 1990 - Aug. 1992: Researcher, Department of Computer Science, Free University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Management

Jan. 2009 - now: Head of the DERI Unit for Natural Language Processing (UNLP)

Jan. 2009 - now: Leader of the DERI Semantic Information Mining Stream (SIM)

Dec. 2001 - Dec. 2008: Co-Head of the DFKI Competence Center Semantic Web

Project Management

March 2010 - now: Consortium coordinator of Monnet: Multilingual Ontologies for Networked Knowledge, funded by EU-IST

Jan. 2009 - now: Project leader of the UNLP section of Lion2: Enabling Networked Knowledge, funded by Science Foundation Ireland

Aug. 2007 - Dec. 2008: Project leader of the DFKI Language Technology Lab section of Theseus-MEDICO: Towards Scalable Semantic Image Search in Medicine, funded by the German Ministry for Economic Affairs (BMWi)

April 2004 - Oct.2007: Project leader of the DFKI Language Technology Lab section of SmartWeb: Mobile Access to the Semantic Web, funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMB+F)

Jan. 2004 - Dec. 2005: Project leader of VieWs: Vernetzung von Information und Wissen in saarland.de (Connecting Information and Knowledge in saarland.de), funded by the Saarland Ministry of Economic Affairs

Jan. 2002 - May 2004: SIG coordinator of OntoWeb SIG5 on Language Technology in Ontology Development and Use, funded by EU-IST

July 2000 - June 2003: Consortium coordinator of MuchMore: Multilingual Concept Hierarchies for Medical Information Organization and Retrieval, funded by EU-IST

Research Positions

March 2010 - now: Monnet: Multilingual Ontologies for Networked Knowledge, funded by EU-IST

Jan. 2009 - now: UNLP-Lion2: NLP for Enabling Networked Knowledge, funded by Science Foundation Ireland

Aug. 2007 - Dec. 2008: Theseus-MEDICO: Towards Scalable Semantic Image Search in Medicine, funded by the German Ministry for Economic Affairs (BMWi)

Jan. 2006 – Dec. 2008: K-Space: Knowledge-based Multimedia Analysis, funded by EU-IST

April 2004 - Oct. 2007: SmartWeb: Mobile Access to the Semantic Web, funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMB+F)

Jan. 2004 - Dec. 2005: VieWs: Vernetzung von Information und Wissen in saarland.de (Connecting Information and Knowledge in saarland.de), funded by the Saarland Ministry of Economic Affairs

Jan. 2004 - Dec. 2004: DIRECT-INFO: Media Monitoring and Multimodal Analysis, funded by EU-IST

July 2003 - May 2004: MEMPHIS: Multilingual Content for Flexible Format Internet Services, funded by EU-IST

July 2000 - June 2003: MuchMore: Multilingual Concept Hierarchies for Medical Information Organization and Retrieval, funded by EU-IST

March 1998 - June 2000: MIETTA: Multilingual Information Extraction for Tourism and Travel Assistance and OLIVE: Speech Based Video Retrieval, funded by EU-IST

Patent

A method and an apparatus for processing semantic data resources. European patent registration, File number: 08010815.2, 2008

Organization of Events

Conferences

5th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS08), November 2008, Saarbruecken, Germany

Workshops

1st Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web (MSW) at the 19th World Wide Web conference, April 2010, Raleigh, NC, USA - with Philipp Cimiano: Universitaet Bielefeld, Germany; Elena Montiel-Ponsoda, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

3rd Workshop on Ontology Learning and Population (OLP3) at ECAI (European Conference on Artificial Intelligence), July 2008, Patras, Greece - with Philipp Cimiano: AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany; George Paliouras, NCSR -"Demokritos", Greece; Myra Spiliopoulou, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany

OntoLex 2007 - From Text to Knowledge: The Lexicon/Ontology Interface at ISWC07 (6th International Semantic Web Conference), November 2007, Busan, South-Korea - with: Key-Sun Choi, Semantic Web Research Center - KAIST, South-Korea; Aldo Gangemi, LOA-CNR, Italy; Chu-Ren Huang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; Alessandro Oltramari, Cogito S.r.l., Italy

2nd Workshop on Ontology Learning and Population (OLP2) at COLING/ACL, July 2006, Sydney, Australia - with Philipp Cimiano: AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany; Berenike Loos: EML, Heidelberg, Germany

OntoLex 2006: Interfacing Ontologies and Lexical Resources for Semantic Web Technologies at LREC (International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation), May 2006, Genoa, Italy - with: Alessandro Oltramari, LOA-CNR & University of Trento, Italy; Chu-Ren Huang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa, Italy; Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University, USA

Knowledge Discovery and Ontologies at ECML/PKDD (European Conference on Machine Learning), September 24th 2004, Pisa, Italy - with: Juergen Franke: DaimlerChrysler, Ulm, Germany: Marko Grobelnik: Jozef Stefan Inst., Ljubljana, Slovenia; Gerhard Paass: Fraunhofer AIS, St. Augustin, Germany; Vojtěch Svatek: University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic

Ontology Learning and Population at ECAI (European Conference on Artificial Intelligence), August 22nd/23rd 2004, Valencia, Spain - with: Bernardo Magnini: IRST-Trento, Italy; Siegfried Handschuh: AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Concept-Based, Cross-Lingual Medical Information Access in the context of the MuchMore project, September 15th-18th, 2002, Hvar, Croatia

Semantic Annotation and Intelligent Content at COLING (International Conference on Computational Linguistics), August 5/6, 2000, Luxembourg - with: Koiti Hasida: ETL, Japan

Workshop on Lexical Semantics in Context: Corpus, Inference and Discourse at ESSLLI (European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information), August 17-21, 1998, Saarbruecken, Germany - with: Johan Bos: Saarland University, Germany

Tutorials

Natural Language Processing - for the Semantic Web at DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway, April 2009

Ontologies and Lexical Semantics in Natural Language Understanding at ESSLLI (European Summer School on Logic Language and Information), August 2007, Dublin, Ireland - with: Philipp Cimiano: AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Ontology Learning from Text at EACL (Conference of the European Association for Computational Linguistics), April 3/4 2006, Trento, Italy - with: Philipp Cimiano: AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Ontology Learning from Text at ECML/PKDD (European Conference on Machine Learning), October 3rd 2005, Porto, Portugal - with: Philipp Cimiano: AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany; Marko Grobelnik: Jozef Stefan Inst., Ljubljana, Slovenia; Michael Sintek: DFKI GmbH, Germany

Panels

Domains, Topics and Senses in the context of the SENSEVAL2 Workshop at ACL/EACL, July 2001, Toulouse, France

Local Events

Nov. 2006: DFKI Workshop on Participation in W3C Working Groups

May 2002; Oct. 2006: DFKI Workshop on the Semantic Web

May 2000; Sept. 2000: DFKI Working Group on Ontologies

1998 - 2008: LaTe-Lunch (Informal talks at the DFKI Language Technology department)

Professional Organizations

Feb. 2007 - now: Information Officer of SIGSEM: SIG on Computational Semantics of ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics)

April 2009 - May 2010: Executive Council Member of IAOA (International Association for Ontology and its Applications)

June 2004 - Dec. 2008: DFKI Representative in the Advisory Committee of W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)

Editorial Board

Language Resources and Evaluation Journal, Springer -- Co-Editor-in-Chief: Nicoletta Calzolari, Nancy Ide

FOLLI Publications on Logic, Language and Information, Sub-series of Lecture Notes in AI, Springer -- Editors-in-Chief: Luigia Carlucci Aiello, Michael Moortgat, Maarten de Rijke

Committees and Reviewing

Program Committee Conferences (Co-Chair)

SAMT 2007 - 2nd international conference on Semantics And digital Media Technology, December 2007, Genova, Italy

Program Committee Conferences (Area/Track Chair, Meta-Reviewer, Senior PC Member)

ISWC - 9th International Semantic Web Conference (Senior PC Member), Nov. 2010, Shanghai, China

CIKM - ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (Meta-Reviewer for Track: Knowledge Management), October 2008, Napa Valley CA

COLING08 - 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Area Chair: lexicon, lexical semantics, word sense disambiguation), August 2008, Manchester, UK

EACL06 - 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Area Chair: lexicon, lexical databases, ontologies, language resources), April 2006, Trento, Italy

Program Committee Conferences (Member)

2010

EKAW 2010 - 17th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, Oct. 2010, Lisbon, Portugal

ECAI 2010 - 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Aug.2010, Lisbon, Portugal

ACL 2010 (Area: Lexical Semantics) - 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, July 2010, Uppsala, Sweden

ESWC 2010 (PhD Symposium) - 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference, June 2010, Crete, Greece

LREC 2010 - 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, May 2010, Malta

FOIS 2010 - 6th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems, May 2010, Toronto, Canada

2009

ASWC 2009 - 4th Asian Semantic Web Conference, Dec. 2009, Shanghai, China

ISWC 2009 (Main Conference, Demo & Poster Session & PhD Track) - 8th International Semantic Web Conference, Oct. 2009, Washington DC

ECML/PKDD 2009 - European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Sept. 2009, Bled, Slovenia

K-CAP 2009 - 5th International Conference on Knowledge Capture, Sept. 2009, Redondo Beach, California, USA

EMNLP 2009 - International Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Aug. 2009, Singapore

ACL-IJCNLP 2009 (Area: Information Extraction & Demo Session) - 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics & 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Aug. 2009, Singapore

ESWC 2009 (Main Conference, Demo & Poster Session & PhD Track) - 6th European Semantic Web Conference, June 2009, Crete, Greece

EACL 2009 (Area: lexicon, lexical databases, language resources, ontologies) - 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, April 2009, Athens, Greece

MMM 2009 - 15th International MultiMedia Modeling Conference, Jan. 2009, Sophia Antipolis, France

2008

FOIS08 - 5th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems, November 2008, Saarbruecken, Germany

ICSC08 - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, August 2008, Santa Clara CA, USA

ESWC08 - 5th European Semantic Web Conference, June 2008, Tenerife, Spain

ACL08 (Area: lexical Semantics) - 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, June 2008, Columbus OH, USA

IJCNLP08 - 3rd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, January 2008, HyderabadIndia

2007

ISWC07 - 6th International Semantic Web Conference, November 2007, Busan, South-Korea

I-KNOW '07 (Special Track on Knowledge Organization and Semantic Technologies) - September 2007, Graz, Austria

ECML/PKDD - European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, September 2007, Warsaw, Poland

ACL07 (Area: lexicon, lexical databases, ontologies, language resources) - June 2007, Prague, Czech Republic

16th WWW Conference (Semantic Web Track), May 2007, Banff, Canada

FLAIRS-20 (Special Track on Artificial Intelligence and Social Semantic Collaboration) - May 2007, Key West FL, USA

22nd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (Technical Track on Semantic Web and Applications) - March 2007, Seoul, Korea

2006

ISWC06 - 5th International Semantic Web Conference, November 2006, Athens GA, USA

I-KNOW06 - International Conference on Knowledge Management (Special Track on Advanced Semantic Technologies), Sept. 2006, Graz, Austria

ESWC06 - 3rd European Semantic Web Conference, May 2006, Montenegro

LREC06 - 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, May 2006, Genoa, Italy

3rd International Conference of the Global WordNet Association, January 2006, Jeju Island, Korea

2005

IJCNLP05 - 2nd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Area: Semantics and Ontologies), Oct. 2005, Jeju Island, Korea

ECCB05 - 4th European Conference on Computational Biology (Area: Text Mining), Sept./Oct. 2005, Madrid, Spain

ISMB05 - Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (Area: Text Mining), June 2005, Michigan, USA

2nd European Semantic Web Conference, May 2005, Crete, Greece

14th WWW Conference (Semantic Web Track), May 2005, Chiba, Japan

2004

COLING04 (Area: Lexical Semantics & Area: Ontologies, Lexicons and Lexical Databases for NLP), August 2004, Geneva, Switzerland

ISMB/ECCB04 - Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology & European Conference on Computational Biology (Area: Databases, Ontologies and Text Mining), August 2004, Glasgow, UK

LREC04 - 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, May 2004, Lisboa, Portugal

13th WWW Conference (Semantic Web Track), May 2004, New York, USA

IJCNLP04 (Area: Lexical Semantics, Ontology and Linguistic Resources), March 2004, Hainan Island, China

2nd International WordNet Conference, January 2004, Brno, Czech Republic

2003

ACL03 (Area: Lexical Semantics and Ontologies for NLP), July 2003, Sapporo, Japan

EACL03 (Area: Lexicon, Lexical Semantics), April 2003, Budapest, Hungary

2002

COLING02 (Area: Semantics & Area: Syntax), August 2002, Taipei, Taiwan

1st International WordNet Conference, January 2002, Mysore, India

2001

FOIS01 - 2nd International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems, October 2001, Ogonquit, Maine, USA

IJCAI01 (Area: NLP/HCI), August 2001, Seattle, Washington, USA

2000

ACL00 (Area: Lexicon and Semantics), October 2000, Hong Kong

1998

COLING/ACL98 (Area: Large R&D Cooperative Projects), August 1998, Montreal, Canada

Program Committee Workshops

2010

OntoLex 2010 - 6th Workshop on Ontologies and Lexical Resources at COLING, Beijing, China, August 2010

2nd workshop on The People's Web meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources at COLING, Beijing, China, August 2010

4th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities at ECAI, Lisbon, Portugal, August 2010

GEMS 2010 - GEometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics at ACL, Uppsala, Sweden, July 2010

3rd Semantic Search workshop at WWW, Raleigh, USA, April 2010

2009

The People's Web meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources at ACL/IJCNLP, Singapore, August 2009

GEometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics at EACL, Athens, Greece, April 2009

Language Technology and Resources for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Education at EACL, Athens, Greece, April 2009

Semantic Representation of Spoken Language at EACL, Athens, Greece, April 2009

2008

Distributional Lexical Semantics: Bridging the gap between semantic theory and computational simulations at ESSLLI, Hamburg, Germany, August 2008

Semantic Search at the 5th European Semantic Web Conference, Tenerife, Spain, June 2008

Building and evaluating resources for biomedical text mining at LREC, Marrakech, Morocco, May 2008

2nd Linguistic Annotation Workshop (the LAW) at LREC, Marrakech, Morocco, May 2008

5th International Workshop on Philosophy and Informatics (WSPI), Kaiserslautern, Germany, April 2008

2007

Semantic Representation of Speech at the conference of the Spanish association for artificial intelligence (CAEPIA), Salamanca, Spain, November 2007

Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Representation for eLearning Environments at RANLP (International Conference on Recent Advances in NLP), Borovetz, Bulgaria, September 2007

Acquisition and Management of Multilingual Lexicons at RANLP (International Conference on Recent Advances in NLP), Borovetz, Bulgaria, September 2007

Contextual Information in Semantic Space Models (CoSMo 2007): Beyond Words and Documents at Context 07: 6th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context, Denmark, August 2007

Linguistic Annotation Workshop (the LAW) at ACL, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007

2006

Web Content Mining with Human Language Technologies at ISWC, November 2006, Athens GA, USA

Semantic Web Applications: Theory and Practice (SWAT 2006) at 25th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2006), November 2006, Tucson, Arizona, USA

Annotating and Reasoning about Time and Events (ARTE) at COLING/ACL, July 2006, Sydney, Australia

International Workshop on Intelligent Information Access (IIIA2006), July 2006, Helsinki, Finland

3rd Workshop on Scalable Natural Language Understanding (ScaNaLU 2006) at HLT/NAACL, June 2006, Boston, USA

3rd International Workshop on Philosophy and Informatics (WSPI 2006), May 2006, Saarbruecken, Germany

Cross-Language Knowledge Induction at EACL, April 2006, Trento, Italy

Multi-dimensional Markup in Natural Language Processing (NLPXML-2006) at EACL, April 2006, Trento, Italy

2005

Knowledge Markup and Semantic Annotation (Semannot2005) at ISWC, November 2005, Galway, Ireland

Ontology Mining & Engineering and its Use for Virtual Reality (WOMEUVR05) at OTM, November 2005, Agia Napa, Cyprus

Ontologies and Lexical Resources (OntoLex 2005) at IJCNLP, October 2005, Jeju Island, Korea

Knowledge Discovery and Ontologies at ECML, October 2005, Porto, Portugal

Representation and Analysis of Web Space (RAWS-05), September 2005, Prague-Tocna, Czech Republic

Learning in Web Search at ICML, August 2005, Bonn, Germany

Learning and Extending Lexical Ontologies by Using Machine Learning Methods at ICML, August 2005, Bonn, Germany

2004

Knowledge Markup and Semantic Annotation (Semannot2004) at ISWC, November 2004, Hiroshima, Japan

Application of Language and Semantic Technologies to Support Knowledge Management Processes at EKAW, October 2004, Northamptonshire, UK

RDF/RDFS and OWL in Language Technology (4th NLPXML Workshop) at ACL, July 2004, Barcelona, Spain

A Registry of Linguistic Data Categories within an Integrated Language Resources Repository Area at LREC, May 2004, Lisbon, Portugal

2003

Knowledge Markup and Semantic Annotation at K-CAP, October 2003, Florida, USA.

Human Language Technology for the Semantic Web and Web Services at ISWC, October 2003, Florida, USA.

Prospects and advances in the syntax/semantics interface (Lorraine-Saarland Workshop Series), October 2003, Nancy, France.

Language Technology and the Semantic Web (3rd NLPXML Workshop) at EACL, April 2003, Budapest, Hungary

2002

Semantic Web Meets Language Resources at AAAI, July 2002, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Semantic Authoring, Annotation & Knowledge Markup at ECAI, July 2002, Lyon, France

Semantic Web Workshop at the WWW Conference, May 2002, Hawaii, USA

Ontologies and Lexical Knowledge Bases (OntoLex 2002) at LREC, May 2002, Las Palmas, Canary Islands - Spain

Wordnet Structures and Standardization at LREC, May 2002, Canary Islands, Spain

Natural Language Processing in Biomedical Applications at EFMI, March 2002, Nicosia, Cyprus

2001

Knowledge Markup and Semantic Annotation at K-CAP, October 2001, Victoria B.C., Canada

Multi-Layer Corpus-based Analysis at the EuroLan Summer School, July/August 2001, Iasi, Romania

Semantic Web Workshop (SemWeb 2001) at the WWW Conference, May 2001, Hong Kong

Program Committee Member of Summer Schools

European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI), Area: Language and Computation, August 2004, Nancy, France.

Occasional Reviewer for Journals

Journal of Web Semantics, Elsevier

Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Cambridge University Press

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Elsevier

Computational Linguistics, MIT Press

The Knowledge Engineering Review, Cambridge University Press

Bioinformatics, Oxford University Press

IEEE Intelligent Systems

Special Issue Reviewer for Journals

Special Issue on Semantic Analysis for Interactive Multimedia Services, Signal Processing: Image Communication, Vol. 23:7, Elsevier, 2008

Special Issue on Summarization and Information Extraction from Medical Documents, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Vol. 33:2, Elsevier, 2005

Special Issue on Semantic Lexicons, Traitement Automatique des Langues, Vol. 42:3, Lavoisier, 2002

Reviewer for Funding Agencies

IWT Strategic Basic Research (SBO), Belgium

EU: IST & COST Program

Norwegian Research Council

NWO - Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Dutch Research Council), the Netherlands

SFI - Science Foundation Ireland

Oesterreichische Forschungsfoerderungsgesellschaft FFG, Austria

Invited Presentations: Keynotes, Lectures, Talks and Panels

Keynote Talks

2010

On Man-Machine Interoperability: Integration of Ontologies and Lexicons - Keynote talk at the 2nd International Conference on Global Interoperability for Language Resources, January 2010, Hong Kong

2007

Ontology Learning: Where are we? And where are we going? - Keynote talk at ESOE: International Workshop on Emergent Semantics and Ontology Evolution, co-located with the 6th International Semantic Web Conference, November 2007, Busan, South-Korea

Ontologies in Semantic Annotation: Selection, Population, Lexicalisation - Keynote talk at SAAKM: Semantic Authoring, Annotation and Knowledge Markup Workshop, co-located with the 4th International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-Cap 2007), October 2007, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada

Text Mining Support in Semantic Metadata Extraction - Keynote talk at KW4ED: Workshop on Knowledge Management and Semantic Web for Engineering Design, co-located with the 4th International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-Cap 2007), October 2007, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada

On the Role of Natural Language Processing in a Data-Driven Approach to the Ontology Life-Cycle - Keynote talk at TALN 2007, the conference of the French association on Natural Language Processing (ATALA), June 2007, Toulouse, France

Harnessing the Semantic Web for Natural Language Processing - Keynote talk at the 7th International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-7), January 2007, Tilburg, the Netherlands

2006

Ontology Learning and Population in SmartWeb - Keynote talk at the 3rd Philips Symposium on Intelligent Algorithms (SOIA), December 2006, Eindhoven, the Netherlands

Ontology Learning for Semantic Metadata Extraction - Keynote talk at the AIMSA workshop on Natural Language Processing for Metadata Extraction (NLP4ME 2006), September 2006, Varna, Bulgaria

2003

Semantic Annotation in MuchMore - Keynote talk at CLIF (Computational Linguistics in Flanders), April 2003, Brussel, Belgium

2002

Lexical Semantics in the Age of the Semantic Web - Keynote talk at the Conference of the Slovenian Society for Language Technologies, October 2002, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Invited Lectures

2008

MERAKA institute - course on Ontologies and Word Meaning in Natural Language Processing, July 2008, Pretoria, South-Africa

2006

ACL/HCSNet Advanced Program in Natural Language Processing - course on Lexical Semantics and Ontologies, July 2006, Melbourne, Australia

2005

1st SEKT Summer School on the Semantic Web - course on Human Language Technology for the Semantic Web, July 2005, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2004

2nd Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web - course on Language Technology for the Semantic Web, July 2004, Cercedilla, Spain

2003

1st Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web - course on Language Technology for the Semantic Web, July 2003, Cercedilla, Spain

PhD Program in Applied Linguistics, (NLP area) - course on Computational Lexical Semantics, Institut de Linguistica Aplicada (IULA), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, February 2003, Barcelona, Spain

2001

EUROLAN Summer School - courses on Domains and Senses and Semantic Annotation in Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval, August 2001, Iasi, Romania

1999

EUROLAN Summer School - course on Concepts in Multilingual Information Retrieval, August 1999, Iasi, Romania

Invited Talks

2010

Ontologies and the Lexicon: Connecting World and Word Knowledge - School of Computer Science of the University of Manchester, March 2010, Manchester, UK

2009

Expertise Mining from Scientific Literature - Semantic Computing Group, Bielefeld University, December 2009, Bielefeld, Germany

Ontologies and the Lexicon: Connecting World and Word Knowledge - Graduate Program Empirical Language Processing (Empirische Sprachverarbeitung), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, December 2009, Munich, Germany

Project Acquisition at DERI: The Monnet FP7 Project Proposal - UK Info Day for ICT Call 6, Enterprise Europe Scotland & Enterprise Ireland, November 2009, Edinburgh, UK

Ontologies and the Lexicon: Connecting World and Word Knowledge - FlareNet project meeting, September 2009, Pisa, Italy

Ontologies: Creating Stepping Stones in a Sea of Data - Theseus Symposium ST3, ST5 Joint Session on Applications and Benefits of Ontologies, June 2009, Berlin, Germany

Invited expert at the Semantic Data Integration Workshop of the LifeWatch project, May 2009, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Ontology-based Information Extraction with SOBA - Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, February 2009, Uppsala, Sweden

2008

Ontology-based Information Extraction with SOBA - Workshop of the CATCH project at Naturalis, November 2008, Leiden, the Netherlands

Towards Query Pattern Mining in the Medical Domain - Center of Content and Knowledge Engineering at the Dept. of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, May 2008, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Ontologies & Text Mining (for Life Sciences) - Seminar on Text Mining and Ontologies for Life Sciences, March 2008, Dagstuhl, Germany

2007

Ontology learning from Text - Backgrounds, State-of-the-Art and Challenges - Computational Linguistics Dept., University of Heidelberg, December 2007, Heidelberg, Germany

Towards Multilingual/Multimedia Ontologies and Cross-Media Analysis - Workshop of the X-Media project, July 2007, Karlsruhe, Germany

Language Technology in the Ontology Life-Cycle - Workshop of the LT4eL project, June 2007, Prague, Czech Republic

Tutorial on Ontology Learning - SIKS-ICS (Dutch Research School for Information and Knowledge systems) Seminar on the Semantic Web, April 2007, Utrecht, the Netherlands

2006

Language Technology in the Ontology Lifecycle - Nancy NLP Seminar at LORIA, December 2006, Nancy, France

Language Technology in the Ontology Lifecycle - Computer Science Dept., Brandeis University, November 2006, Waltham MA, USA

Ontology Learning: Multilingual and Multimedia Aspects - EKAW Workshop on Ontology Evolution and Multimedia Information Extraction (BOEMIE), October 2006, Podebrady, Czech Republic

Tutorial on Ontology Learning - First International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM'06), August 2006, Guilin, China -- canceled

Ontology-driven Predicate Argument Structure Analysis for Event Annotation (with Anette Frank) - Workshop on Multilingual Semantic Annotation, June 2006, Saarbruecken, Germany

Ontology Learning from Text - European Bioinformatics Institute, May 2006, Hinxton, UK

Language Technology in the Ontology Lifecycle - Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, January 2006, Milton Keynes, UK

2005

Human Language Technology for the Semantic Web - Seminars in Computing, National University of Ireland, Nov. 2005, Galway, Ireland

Language Technology in Knowledge Markup and Ontology Evolution - Seminar on Artificial Intelligence, June 2005, Luxembourg

Corpus-based Ontology Extension - Symposium on corpus applications in literary studies, linguistics and information technology, February 2005, Darmstadt, Germany

Position Paper on Machine Learning for the Semantic Web - Seminar on Machine Learning for the Semantic Web, February 2005, Dagstuhl, Germany

Towards the Integration of Ontologies and Semantic Lexicons - 2nd Workshop of the MEANING project, February 2005, Trento, Italy

2004

Language Technology for the Semantic Web - Talks in Computational Linguistics, Stockholm University, September 2004, Stockholm, Sweden

Ontologies: Contributions from Language Technology - eJustice Dialogues, July 2004, Saarbruecken, Germany

Connecting Human Language Technology and Ontology Engineering - CNTS Colloquia, Univ. of Antwerpen, June 2004, Antwerpen, Belgium

OntoLT: Connecting Human Language Technology and Ontology Engineering - ILASH Half-day Workshop on Human Language Technologies for the Semantic Web, Univ. of Sheffield, March 2004, Sheffield, UK

2003

Ontology Extraction from Text with OntoLT - DaimlerChrysler Workshop on Ontology Learning and Question Answering Tools from/for Large Text Collections, December 2003, Ulm, Germany

MuchMore: Multilingual Concept Hierarchies for Medical Information Organization and Retrieval - LangTech Conference, November 2003, Paris, France

Semantic Corpus Annotation in MuchMore; Language Technology and the Semantic Web - Institut de Linguistica Aplicada (IULA), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, February 2003, Barcelona, Spain

Semantic Corpus Annotation in MuchMore; Language Technology and the Semantic Web - Institute for InfoComm Research, January 2003, Singapore

2000

Semantic Lexicons: Between Ontology and Terminology - ONTOLEX workshop, September 2000, Sozopol, Bulgaria

1999

CoreLex Revisited: Finding Systematic Patterns of Meaning - Department of Linguistics, University of Tuebingen, October 1999, Tuebingen, Germany

Ambiguity in Semantic Annotation - Computer Science Institute, University of Leipzig, July 1999, Leipzig, Germany

Concepts in Multilingual Information Retrieval - Kansai Advanced Research Center, February 1999, Osaka, Japan

Invited Member of Panels

2004

Semantic Web - ONTOLEX Workshop, LREC, May 2004, Lisbon, Portugal

2002

Semantic Web - NLPXML Workshop, COLING, September 2002, Taipei, Taiwan

Semantic Web: A New Challenge for Language Technology? - COLING, August 2002, Taipei, Taiwan

2001

Commentator at Standardizing and Linking WordNets - SENSEVAL2, ACL/EACL, July 2001, Toulouse, France

Wissen ueber Woerter (Knowledge about Words) - Institut fuer Deutsche Sprache (Institute for the German Language), June 2001, Mannheim, Germany

2000

Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval - ASIS (American Society for Information Science and Technology), November 2000, Chicago, USA

Multilingual Lexicons - Final Workshop of the SIMPLE Project, June 2000, Athens, Greece

Supervision

PhD Supervision, National University of Ireland, Galway (since 2009)

June 2010 - now: Tobias Wunner, PhD Computer Science: Ontology Lexicalisation - working title

April 2009 - now: Georgeta Bordea, PhD Computer Science: Concept Extraction with Applications in Expert Finding - working title

April 2009 - now: Behrang Qasemizadeh, PhD Computer Science: Relation Extraction for Technology Structure Mining - working title

Undergraduate Thesis Supervision, Computational Linguistics & Computer Science Departments, Saarland University, Germany (2000 - 2008)

Dec. 2006 - Sept. 2007: Mario Crespo Miguel, MSc Computational Linguistics: Domain-specific English-to-Spanish Translation of FrameNet

Aug. 2006 - April 2007: Thomas Eigner, BSc Computer Science: OntoSelect: An online ontology library with automatic support for ontology selection

Aug. 2005 - June 2006: Nicolas Weber, MSc Computer Science (joined KnowCenter, Graz, Austria): Webbasiertes Ontologielernen - Web-based Ontology Learning

Sept. 2004 - June 2006: Alexander Schutz, BA Computational Linguistics (joined DERI Galway, Ireland): Relation Extraction for Ontology Extension

April 2004 - Feb. 2005: Srikanth Ramaka, MSc Computer Science (joined Goldman Sachs Inc., Newark, USA): A Machine Learning Based Approach to Ontology Population

Jan. 2003 - June 2004: Daniel Olejnik, Diplom Computer Science (joined IDS Scheer AG, Saarbruecken, Germany): OntoLT: Ein Protege Plug-in fuer Textbasierte Ontologieextraktion - OntoLT: A Protege Plug-in for Text-based Ontology Extraction

June 2001 - Nov. 2002: Diana Raileanu, Diplom Computational Linguistics (joined CLT Sprachtechnologie GmbH, Saarbruecken, Germany): Domain Specific Semantic Tagging

June 2000 - Feb. 2001: Bogdan Sacaleanu, Diplom Computational Linguistics (joined DFKI GmbH, Saarbruecken, Germany): Domain Specific Semantic Lexicon Tuning and Extension

Teaching, Computational Linguistics Department, Saarland University, Germany (1999 - 2008)

April 2006 - July 2006 Ontologies and Lexical Semantics

April 2000 - July 2000 Lexical Semantics in Information Systems

April 1999 - July 1999 Lexical Semantics in Information Systems

Publications: http://www.paulbuitelaar.net/pub.html