Matthew Vassar Founder, Vassar Bros. Brewery and Vassar College

Nancy Ide Professor Department of Computer Science Vassar College 124 Raymond Avenue Poughkeepsie, New York 12604-0520 USA tel : (+1) 845 437 5988 fax : (+1) 845 437 7498 e-mail : ide [at] cs.vassar.edu

Honorary Professor Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza Iasi, Romania

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 2012

• Computational Linguistics

Professional Activities:

• Co-editor-in-Chief, Language Resources and Evaluation
• Book series Editor-in-chief, 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, Scientific Advisory Committee, Swedish National Data Service.
• Member, Hercules Science Commission, Brussels.
• 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, The Seventh Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW VII), held in conjunction with The 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sofia, Bulgaria, August 8-9, 2013.
• Area Program Committee Chair, The 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sofia, Bulgaria, August 4-9, 2013.
• Program Committee, ICSC 2013: Seventh IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing , September 16-18, 2013, Irvine, California, USA.
• Program Committee, The 14th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, March 24–30, 2013. University of the Aegean, Samos, Greece.
• Program Committee, *SEM 2013: Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, co-located with the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, June 13-14, 2013.
• Program Committee, GL2013: Generative Lexicon and Distributional Semantics: 6th International Conference on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon, Pisa, Italy, September 24-25, 2013.
• Program Committee, UIMA@GSCL 2013 workshop, held in conjunction with the International Conference of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (GSCL 2013), Darmstadt, Germany, September 23, 2013.

Projects:

• The Language Application Grid
• American National Corpus
• Manually Annotated Sub-Corpus (MASC)
• INTEROP-SILT: Sustainable Interoperability for Language Technology
• XCES : XML version of the Corpus Encoding Standard

Publications