Nancy Ide

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Spring 2008 Course:

• Compiler Design

Professional Activities:

• Co-editor-in-Chief, Language Resources and Evaluation
• Book series co-editor, Text, Speech, and Language Technology, (Springer)
• Founder, the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
• President, the Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on Annotation (ACL SIGANN)
• International Expert, Institut de Linguistique Francaise, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Member, International Standards Organization (ISO) TC37 SC 4 (Language Resources Standards)
• Convener, International Standards Organization (ISO) TC37 SC 4 WG 1 (Language Resource Management, Descriptors and Mechanisms for Language Resources)
• Co-organizer, First International Conference on Global Interoperability for Language Resources, Hong Kong, January 9-11, 2008.
• Co-director, EUROLAN 2007 Summer School: Sentiment, Opinion, and Semantics in Text , July 23-August 3, 2007, Iasi, Romania.
• Co-organizer, The Second Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW II), held in conjunction with LREC 2008, May 26-27, Marrakech, Morocco.
• Program Committee, 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Columbus, Ohio June 15-20, 2008.
• Program Committee, International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, March 31-April 2, 2008, Seattle, Washington.
• Program Committee, 9th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing 2008), February 17-23, 2008, Haifa, Israel.
• Scientific Committee, LREC 2008, May 28-30, Marrakech, Morocco.
• Program Committee, Uses and usage of language resource-related standards, held in conjunction with LREC 2008, May 27, Marrakech, Morocco.
• Program Committee, Towards Enhanced Interoperability for Large HLT Systems: UIMA for NLP, held in conjunction with LREC 2008, May 31, Marrakech, Morocco.
• Program Committee, OntoLex 2008: The role of ontolex resources in building the infrastructure of Web 3.0: vision and practice, held in conjunction with LREC 2008, May 31, Marrakech, Morocco.

Projects:

• American National Corpus
• INTEROP: Sustainable Interoperability for Language Technology
• XCES : XML version of the Corpus Encoding Standard
• Accessing FDR's America: Enhanced Search and Retrieval

Publications