Frank Van Eynde - Functions

Management and administration (Leuven University)

• Coordinator of the research unit on Dutch, German and Computational Linguistics, 2005-2011.
• Coordinator of the Speech and Language Technology program of the Master in Artificial Intelligence, since 2000.
• Chairman of the Centre for Computational Linguistics, 1994-2000 and since 2004.
• Secretary of the Centre for Computational Linguistics, 1991-1993.
• Chairman of the curriculum committee on linguistics, 2004-2007.

Conferences, workshops and summer schools

Organiser

• The 17th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands. CLIN-17 Leuven, January 12, 2007.
• International workshop on New Approaches to Machine Translation. METIS-II, Leuven, January 11, 2007.
• The 11th International Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar. HPSG-2004, Leuven, August 3-6, 2004.
• The 3rd European Master School on Language and Speech. EMSL, Leuven, July 8-12, 2002.
• The 9th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands. CLIN-9, Leuven, December 11, 1998.
• Colloquium over Taal- en Spraaktechnologie voor het Nederlands. TST, Leuven, December 10, 1998.
• Workshop on Machine Translation. The 10th European Summer School in Language, Logic and Information. Saarbrücken, August 24-28, 1998.
• The 5th ELSNET Summer School on Language and Speech Communication. ELSNET Summer School, Leuven, July 14-25, 1997.
• The 6th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation. TMI95, Leuven, July 5-7, 1995.
• International Workshop on Tense and Aspect in Discourse. Leuven, July 2-3, 1993.
• ESSLLI. The 2nd European Summer School in Language, Logic and Information. Leuven, July 30 - August 10, 1990.
• Workshop on Tense and Aspect. The Second European Summer School in Language, Logic and Information. Leuven, July 30 - August 10, 1990.
• Workshop on Tense and Aspect. The First European Summer School in Language, Logic and Information. Groningen, June, 1989.

Programme Committee Chair

• The 8th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories. TLT-8, Milano, December 4-5, 2009.
• The 7th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories. TLT-7, Groningen, January 23-4, 2009.
• International workshop on New Approaches to Machine Translation. METIS-II, Leuven, January 11, 2007.
• The 8th International Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar. HPSG-2001, Trondheim, August 3-5, 2001.
• The 6th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation. TMI95, Leuven, July 5-7, 1995.

Programme Committee Member

• The 18th International Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar. HPSG-2011, Seattle, August 22-24, 2011.
• The 17th International Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar. HPSG-2010, Paris, July 8-10, 2010.
• The 14th International Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar. HPSG-2007, Stanford, July 21-22, 2007.
• The 11th International Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar. HPSG-2004, Leuven, August 3-6, 2004.
• The 6th International Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar. HPSG-1999, Edinburgh, August 4-6, 1999.
• The 3rd European Summer School in Language, Logic and Information. ESSLLI-1991. Saarbrücken, August, 1991.

Standing Committee

• Chairman of the Board of the European Master School on Language and Speech. 2002-2006.
• Member of the Board of the European Master School on Language and Speech. since 2000.
• Chairman of the Standing Committee of the European Summer School on Language, Logic and Information. 1990-1994.

Reviewing

of articles for the journals

• Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
  
• Linguistics
  
• Journal of Linguistics
  
• Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics
  
• Logos and Language. Journal of General Linguistics and Language Theory
  
• Machine Translation
  
• Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
  
• Journal of Research in Language and Computation

of dissertations

• Hans Smessaert, The logical geometry of comparison and quantification. A cross-categorial analysis of Dutch determiners and aspectual adverbs. Leuven 1993. Promotor: F.G. Droste.
  
• Lisette Appelo, Categorial divergences in a compositional translation system. Utrecht 1993. Promotor: J. Landsbergen.
  
• Albert M. Stoop, TRANSIT. A linguistically motivated Dutch-Turkish MT system. Nijmegen 1995. Promotors: J. van Bakel and E. Zürcher.
  
• Dirk Heylen, Types and sorts. resource logic for feature checking. Utrecht 1999. Promotor: M. Moortgat.
  
• Dong-Hoon Van Uytsel, Probabilistic language modeling with left corner parsing. Leuven 2003. Promotor: P. Wambacq.
  
• Susanne Schoof, An HPSG account of nonfinite verbal complements in Latin. Groningen 2004. Promotor: J. Nerbonne.
  
• Leonoor J. van der Beek, Topics in Corpus-based Dutch Syntax. Groningen 2005. Promotor: J. Nerbonne.
  
• Lobke Aelbrecht, You have the right to remain silent. The syntactic licensing of ellipsis. Brussel 2009. Promotors: G. Vanden Wyngaerd and J. van Craenenbroeck.
  
• Marijke De Belder, Roots and affixes. Eliminating lexical categories from syntax. Utrecht 2011. Promotor: N. Corver.
  

  of Habilitationsschrifte

• Manfred Sailer, A representational theory of negative polarity item licensing. Goettingen 2010. Promotor: G. Webelhuth.
  

of project proposals for funding agencies

• The Dutch National Organisation for Scientific research (NWO)
  
• The Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW)
  
• The Danish National Research Foundation

Visitation of university teaching programmes in the Netherlands

• Member of the visitation committee on Artificial Intelligence. The universities of Amsterdam (UvA and VU), Utrecht, Nijmegen, Groningen and Maastricht, 2001-2002.
• Member and vice-chair of the visitation committee on Linguistics and on Communication and Information Sciences. The universities of Amsterdam (UvA and VU), Utrecht, Nijmegen, Groningen, Leiden and Tilburg, 2005-2006.
• Member of the visitation committee on Information Sciences. The universities of Utrecht, Nijmegen and Groningen, 2006-2007.