Talks (before 2010)

Main speaking commitments until 2010, ordered by year. Appearances since 2020 can be found here. Talks given between 2010 and 2019 are listed here.

2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011 • 2010 •
2009 • 2008 • 2007 • 2006 • 2005 • 2004 • 2003 • 2002 • 2001 • 2000 • 1999 • 1998 • 1997 • 1996 • 1995 • 1994 • 1993 • 1992 • 1991 • 1990

If you want to inquire about a possible invitation, please send an initial email to Petra Best, p.best@uva.nl, preferably at least three months before the event.

2009

• Open Sources for Expertise Retrieval, UvT, Tilburg, December 2009
• BRIDGE: Building Rich Links to Enable Television History Research, Amsterdam, December 2009
• Op Zoek naar Experts en Andere Entitieiten, SURF, Utrecht, December 2009
• Topical diversity on the web, TREC, Gaithersburg, November 2009
• What do people write about today? Ranking news headlines based on clusters of overused terms, TREC, Gaithersburg, November 2009
• Het web als waarzegger, CrossMedia, Hilversum, October 2009
• CLEF 2010: Conference on Multilingual and Multimedia Information Access Evaluation, CLEF, Corfu, September 2009
• Mining Log Files, Semantically, CLEF, Corfu, September 2009
• Searching User Generated Content, Nancy, June 2009
• Retrieving Experts and Other Entities, Saarbruecken, June 2009
• Expert Profiling in the Wild, Enschede, June 2009
• Information Extraction in a Multilingual Context, Pisa, June 2009
• Content and Structure in Information Retrieval, Umea, June 2009
• Data, Structure. Structure, Data., Delft, May 2009
• Searching and Mining User Generated Content, BCN, Groningen, May 2009
• Nieuws over Expertise Retrieval, UKB, Utrecht, May 2009
• Semantisch Amsterdam, Amsterdam, May 2009
• Retrieving Entities, SIKS, Zeist, April 2009
• Searching User Generate Content: What’s Next?, ECIR keynote, Toulouse, April 2009
• Linking Entities and Events, Catch meeting, Den Haag, February 2009
• Het Sociale Web, Amsterdam, January 2009

2008

• People search, Nunspeet, November 2008
• DuOMAn: Dutch Language Online Media Analysis, Roosendaal, September 2008
• WebCLEF—Goodbye!, Aarhus, September 2008
• Named entity normalization in user generated content, Singapore, July 2008
• Finding Key Bloggers, One Post at a Time, Patras, July 2008
• What system for what scenarios?, Madrid, June 2008
• Retrieving entities, Zeist, June 2008
• Wikipedia-based tagging in user generated content, Amsterdam, May 2008
• Search and discovery in user generated content, Glasgow, April 2008
• Associating People and Documents, Glasgow, April 2008
• Looking at Things Differently, Maastricht, April 2008
• MuNCH: Multimedia aNalysis for Cultural Heritage, Hilversum, April 2008
• Media en cultuur: wat wordt er binnenkort mogelijk?, Amsterdam, March 2008
• Zoeken, Amsterdam, March 2008
• Analyse van blog content, Amsterdam, January 2008

2007

• Vindbaarheid eerst!, Den Haag, December 2007
• QA@INEX: A proposal, Amsterdam, November 2007
• WebCLEF overview, CLEF, Aarhus, September 2007
• Who’s the user, who’s the researcher? SIGIR workshop on non-Engish web retrieval, Amsterdam, July 2007
• WiQA: Evaluating Multi-lingual Focused Access to Wikipedia, EVIA 2007, Tokyo, May 2007
• Brainwave, Holland Herald, April 2007
• Identifying Facets in User Generated Content, Boulder, March 2007
• How to Overcome Tiredness: Estimating Topic-Mood Associations, Boulder, March 2007
• Verkiezingskijker, Amsterdam, March 2007
• Het volgen van user generated content, Ministerie van OC&W, Amsterdam, February 2007
• MoodViews, WAR site visit, Amsterdam, January 2007

2006

• Finding Things, VUA, Amsterdam, December 2006
• Stemming op internet voorspellen, TROS Radio Online; December 12, 2006
• Internet Voorkeur, NRC; November 11, 2006
• Het humeur van het Internet, BNR Nieuwsradio; November 9, 2006
• Kennisvalorisatie, Senaat, Amsterdam, October 2006
• Levens Zoekbaar, Oratie, Amsterdam, October 2006
• WebCLEF… the future, CLEF, Alicante, September 2006
• WebCLEF 2006 Topic Development, CLEF, Alicante, September 2006
• Overview of WebCLEF 2006, CLEF, Alicante, September 2006
• Using Content and Structure at WiQA 2006, CLEF, Alicante, September 2006
• Finding People and Moods, IGK, Edinburgh, September 2006
• Searching for People in the Personal Workspace, IIIA, Helsinki, July 2006
• Internet is boos (of moe of blij), De Psycholoog 41(6):342, June 2006
• Blogs, blogs, blogs, ISLA, Amsterdam, June 2006
• Language Technology for Video Retrieval, MuNCH Meeting, Amsterdam, June 2006
• Stemmingmeter voor internet, NRC; May 10, 2006
• Ein Stimmungsbarometer fur das Web, ORF; April 25, 2006
• Wann weint das Web?, Der Spiegel; April 21, 2006
• Software tracks mood swings of blogosphere, The New Scientist; April 20, 2006
• Software Reportedly Tracks Internet Mood Swings, InformationWeek; April 19, 2006
• Het humeur van het Internet, Teleac Radio; April 13, 2006
• A Study of Blog Search, ECIR, London, April 2006
• Des Bloggers Konsumvorlieben, heise online; April 6, 2006
• Universiteit Amsterdam peilt humeur bloggers, tweakers.net; April 5, 2006
• Humeur van webloggers in kaart gebracht, nu.nl; April 5, 2006
• Het humeur van het internet, NWO Press Release; April 4, 2006
• Feeling Everybody Up, MetroActive; March 29, 2006
• Facing Restrictions in Question Answering, DIR, Delft, March 2006
• Volgende generatie zoekmachines, Voorlichting, Amsterdam, January 2006

2005

• Two Models for Finding Experts, TREC, Gaithersburg, November 2005
• Retrieving Answers from Frequently Asked Questions Pages on the Web, CIKM, Bremen, October 2005
• Question Answering: Now and Next, Enschede, October 2005
• Boosting Web Retrieval through Query Operations, BNAIC, Brussels, October 2005
• Buy 30, Get 547, CLEF, Vienna, September 2005
• Reasoning and Learning in Information Access, SIKS, May 2005
• Search engines that create their own structure & Question Answering SIKS, April 2005
• What’s Next in QA and IR?, Groningen, March 2005
• Focused Retrieval, Hildesheim, Germany, January 2005
• Question Answering: What’s Next?, IWCS 2005, Tilburg, January 2005

2004

• Building a Multi-Lingual Web Retrieval Collection, CLIN 2004, December 2004
• Search, SIKS School, December 2004
• Language Modelling and Semistructured Information Retrieval, SIKS School on Information Retrieval, December 2004
• Search, Informatics Institute, November 2004
• Natural Language Processing for the Semantic Web, SIKS School on the Semantic Web, November 2004
• New Ideas, CLEF 2004, September 2004
• Proposal for a Multi-Lingual Web Track, CLEF 2004, September 2004
• A Recall-Oriented Approach to Question Answering, CLEF 2004, September 2004
• Why?, ILLC, University of Amsterdam, June 2004
• Information Access at LIT, IMIX Symposium, KUN Nijmegen, May 2004
• Information Access at LIT, ISLA Colloquium, Amsterdam, May 2004
• The Effectiveness of Combining Information Retrieval Strategies for European Languages, ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Cyprus, March 2004

2003

• Natural Language Parsing with W-grammars, Antwerp, December 2003
• Quartz-d: A Question Answering System for Dutch, TREC 2003, Gaithersburg, November 2003
• Question Answering System at the University of Amsterdam, TREC 2003, Gaithersburg, November 2003
• Dutch Question Answering, SNN, Nijmegen, October 2003
• Vraag-Antwoord Systemen, ICT-Kenniscongres, Den Haag, September 2003
• Designing a Multi-Stream System for Answering Dutch Questions, CLEF 2003, Trondheim, August 2003 [poster]
• Intelligent Information Access, Amsterdam, June 2003
• Learning and Reasoning for Question Answering, Nunspeet, June 2003
• QA — What’s Next?, Edinburgh, May 2003
• Intelligent Information Access, Amsterdam, March 2003
• Towards Temporal Question Answering, Bolzano, February 2003
• Beyond Document Retrieval, Trento, February 2003 [slides]
• From Frege to Google, Liverpool, February 2003
• Intelligent Information Access, Amsterdam, February 2003
• Information retrieval and more, Utrecht, January 2003

2002

• Combining Evidence for Monolingual Retrieval in European Languages, DIR, Leuven, December 2002
• Intelligent Information Acces, Philips NatLab, Eindhoven, November 2002
• Kennis-Intensieve Vraag-Antwoordsystemen, Amsterdam, Oktober 2002
• Knowledge-Intensive Question Answering, BNAIC’02, Leuven, Oktober 2002
• Decomposing Modal Logic, AiML, Toulouse, September 2002
• Combining Morphological and Ngram Evidence for Monolingual Retrieval, CLEF, Rome, September 2002
• Lanugae and Inference Technology, ICT-Kenniscongres, Den Haag, September 2002
• FoLLI: The State of Things, ESSLLI, Trento, August 2002
• Towards a test set for inference in computational semantics, Amsterdam, April 2002
• The University of Amsterdam at CLEF 2001, Utrecht, March 2002
• Computing with Meaning, Manchester, March 2002
• Computing with Meaning, Amsterdam, February 2002
• Evaluate!, Amsterdam, January 2002

2001

• From Computational Logic to Language and Inference Technology, Amsterdam, December 2001
• Language and Inference Technology, Nancy, November 2001
• Structuring Scientific Information, OzsL School Week, Nunspeet, October 2001
• Surely, NLP Can Help IR, OzsL School Week, Nunspeet, October 2001
• 8 Slides on WordNet, Amsterdam, October 2001
• Information Retrieval, ESSLLI, Helsinki, August 2001
• Towards a Test Set for Computational Semantics, ICoS-3, Siena, June 2001
• Tree-Based Practical Algorithms for Modal Logic, IRCS, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, May 2001
• Light-Weight Inference in Computational Semantics, IRCS, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, May 2001
• Experiments in Expressive Power, IRCS, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, May 2001
• Computing with Modal Logics, Udine, March 2001
• Computing with Meaning, Den Haag, February 2001

2000

• Computing with Meaning, Utrecht, November 2000
• Three Adverts and a Bit, OZSL School Week, Nunspeet, October 2000
• Balancing Inference and Representation, LFCS Seminar, University of Edinburgh, October 2000
• Description and/or Hybrid Logic, AiML-2000, Leipzig, October 2000
• Tree-Based Heuristics in Modal Theorem Proving, ECAI-2000, Berlin, August 2000
• Modal Experiments, Automated Reasoning Workshop 2000, London, July 2000
• Logic and Language Links, L3 Project Meeting, Amsterdam, June 2000
• Representatie vs. Algoritme, Computational Logic Seminar, Amsterdam, April 2000
• Logic in Action, WEIS Lustrum, March 7, Amsterdam
• Efficient Reasoning Methods for Shallow Representations, Stuttgart, February
• Computing with Meaning, The Hague, February
• Content, Computational Logic Seminar, January, Amsterdam

1999

• Computing with Meaning, Utrecht, December
• The Logic of Feature Interaction, Computational Logic Seminar, Amsterdam, December
• Computing with Modal Logic, SFB 340 Workshop, Bad Teinach, October
• Temporal Logic, August 9, ESSLLI’99, Utrecht
• Feature Interaction as a Satisfiability Problem, DL’99, Linkoeping, July
• Satisfaction Through Combining, May 31, ILLC, Amsterdam
• Termination in Term Rewriting, Computational Logic Seminar, May, Amsterdam
• Combining Reasoning Systems, April 9, AISB, Edinburgh
• Rekenen met Logica, April 1, OzsL, Utrecht
• Prefixed Resolution, February 26, Computational Logic Seminar, ILLC, Amsterdam

1998

• Buying Time, December 16, Manchester
• Inference and Natural Language Semantics, December 14, LACL-98, Grenoble
• Description Logics, November 27, Computational Logic Seminar, ILLC, Amsterdam
• Description Logics, November 13, Computational Logic Seminar, ILLC, Amsterdam
• Description Logics, October 23, Computational Logic Seminar, ILLC, Amsterdam
• From Modal Logics to Standard Logics, August 24, ESSLLI’98, Saarbrücken
• Managing Fragments, July 29, WoLLIC’98, Sao Paulo
• From Modal Logics to Standard Logics, July 28, WoLLIC’98, Sao Paulo
• Process Operations in Extended Dynamic Logic, June 23, LICS’98, Indianapolis
• Description Logics and Modal Logics, June 7, DL’98, Trento
• Constraining Semistructured Data, May 15, Amsterdam
• Classifying Small Description Languages, May 8, Lisbon
• Semistructured Data, January 24, UGLLI’98, Uppsala

1997

• Semistructured Data, November, Warwick
• Classifying Description Logics, September, DL’97, Paris
• Expressiveness of First-Order Description Logics, June, Warwick
• Modal Logic, April, SIKS PhD School, Utrecht

1996

• Finite Structures, December, JAIST, Kanazawa
• Restricted Description Languages, December, Chiba University, Japan
• Modal Model Theory, December, Chiba University, Japan
• Bisimulations for Temporal Logic, November, Manchester
• Simulating Without Negation, November, Birmingham
• Formal Agent Theories, October, FoMAS’96, Warwick
• Bisimulations for Temporal Logic, October, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London
• Directed Simulations, September, CSL’96, Utrecht
• Observational Equivalence and Logical Equivalence, August, ESSLLI’96, Prague
• Reasoning about Changing Information, July, University of Cape Town
• Bisimulation and Logic, June, UNISA, Pretoria
• Expressive Power in Knowledge Representation, June, UNISA, Pretoria
• Logics and Processes, June, Annual Meeting of the South-African Computer Lecturers Association, Pretoria
• Expressivity and Modal Logic, May, Max-Planck Institut fuer Informatik, Saarbruecken
• Logic, Transition Systems and Processes, May, Max-Planck Institut fuer Informatik, Saarbruecken
• How to Put Two Logics Together, March, Warwick
• Modal Tree Logics, January, CWI, Amsterdam

1995

• Completeness Results for Two-Sorted Metric Temporal Logics, July, AMAST’95, Montreal
• Trees, Grammar and Dynamic Logic, May, Leipzig
• Process Equivalence and Logical Equivalence, March, Cape Town
• Process Equivalence and Logical Equivalence, February, Warwick
• Modal Model Theory, February, CIS, Universitaet Muenchen
• Dynamic Logic as a Description Language, February, CIS, Universitaet Muenchen
• Tree Logics for Computational Linguistics, January, CWI, Amsterdam

1994

• A Lindstroem Theorem for Modal Logic, December, NSL ’94, Kanazawa, Japan
• Now This is Modal Logic, November, Amsterdam
• Bisimulations and Fragments of First-order Logic, August, ESSLLI’94, Copenhagen
• The Logic of Peirce Algebras, August, ESSLLI’94, Copenhagen
• Completeness via Flatness, July, ICTL’94, Bonn
• Back and Forth between Time and Events, July, ICTL’94, Bonn
• Zooming In, Zooming Out, June, STAS4, Moraga CA, USA
• Logics of Communicating Structures, May, LLC-3, CSLI, Stanford, USA
• A Lindstroem Theorem for Modal Logic, April, Workshop Three Days of Bisimulation, Amsterdam
• Model Theory for Modal Logic, March, FACCS-Lab Seminar, University of Cape Town
• The Logic of Peirce Algebras, March, Mathematics Colloquium, University of Cape Town
• Dynamic Logic and Theory Change, March, Joint Maths/AI Colloquium, University of Cape Town
• Zooming In, Zooming Out, January, Dagstuhl Seminar on Relational Methods in Computer Science, Saarbruecken

1993

• Sequent Calculi for Logics that Count, November, Workshop on Proof Theory of Modal Logic, Hamburg
• The Logic of Peirce Algebras, October, Colloquium on Partial and Dynamic Semantics, Utrecht
• Dynamic Logic, August, ESSLLI’93, Lisbon
• Counting Objects, May, ICCS’93, San Sebastian, Spain
• Dynamic Modal Logic II, February, Amsterdam
• Dynamic Modal Logic I, February, Amsterdam
• Counting Objects, February, Imperial College, London
• Counting Objects, January, Amsterdam

1992

• What is Modal Logic?, December, Logic at Work, Applied Logic Conference, Amsterdam
• A System of Dynamic Modal Logic, November, Colloquium on Partial and Dynamic Semantics
• A Framework for Extended Modal Logic, October, Seminar on Non-Classical Logics, Sofia
• A System of Dynamic Modal Logic, August, ASL European Summer Meeting, Veszprem, Hungary
• Changing Information: the Amsterdam Way, May, CSLI Seminar, Stanford CA, USA
• At Some Other Place, May, Intensional Logic Colloquium, Stanford CA, USA
• A Modal Logic for Updating and Contracting, March, Colloquium on Non-Monotonic Reasoning, Delft
• Extending Modal Logic, February, Amsterdam

1991

• A Modal Logic for Updating and Revising, December, Workshop on Logic and the Flow of Information, Amsterdam
• Generalized Quantifiers and Modal Logic, May, Colloquium on Logic and Theoretical Computer Science, Eindhoven

1990

• Extended Modal Logic II, October, Amsterdam
• Extended Modal Logic I, October, Amsterdam
• Unary Interpretability Logic, June, Symposium Logic and Computer Science around the 42nd parallel, Marseille
• Why Not at a Different Time?, April, Amsterdam