Affiliations and Honors

• Local
• Center for Language and Cognition, Groningen, Dir. 1/1999-8/2012
• Alfa-informatica, aka Information Science, Groningen, Chair 1993-2006, 2007-2012.
• Computing Science, Groningen, Secondary appointment, 2001-2017.
• Research Master's Program in Linguistics, Instructor, 2005-2016.
• Language and Communication Technology, an Erasmus Mundus Master's program, Instructor, 2007-2016.
• Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT), member, 2003-pres. Member of board, 2003-8/2012.
• English, Groningen, Head of Linguistics section, 2004-pres., Chair of department, 2006-2010.
• Research School for the Behavioral and Cognitive Neurosciences, Board member, 1999-2003; member, 1993-2017.
• General
• Association for Computational Linguistics, The professional organization for CL; President, 2002
  Non in dialectica complacuit Deo salvum facere populuum suum Presidential Address to the ACL, July 9, 2002.
• Meertens Institute, Member, Scientific Advisory Board, 2008-pres., Chair 2011-Sept. 2016.
• EADH: The European Organisation for Digital Humanities, President, 2012-2014.
• ADHO: The Alliance of Digital Digital Humanities Humanities Organizations, Chair of Steering Committee, 2014-2015.
• Honors
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Member, 2005-pres.
  • Fellow at the DFG Center for Advanced Studies, Words, Bones, Genes, & Tools at the University of Tübingen. Oct.2017-Mar.2018; Oct. 2021-Mar.2022.
  • Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies, Fellow, 8/2012-1/2013, 8/2013-1/2014.
  • Alexander von Humboldt Senior Fellow (Humboldt Preisträger), awarded 2012.
  • American Dialect Society Professor, June-July, 2005 at the 2005 Linguistics Institute, (at MIT & Harvard) of the Linguistic Society of America.
  • Knighthood (in the Order of the Netherlands Lion) Apr., 2014
  • Fellow, Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association, Sept. 2024
• Past Affiliations
• Musée de l'Homme, Visiting Scientist, 2006-2008; 2016.
• Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim. Member, Wissenschaftlicher Beirat, 2006-2015.
• CLARIN-NL Board Member, 2009-2015.
  Board oversees € 9M CLARIN-NL program, (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure)
• Taal- en Spraaktechnologie Board Member, 2005-2013.
  Board oversees € 11M STEVIN program, (Spraak- en Taaltechnologische Essentiële Voorzieningen In het Nederlands)
• Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft, University of Tübingen, Visiting Professor, Fall, 2005.
• 2005 Linguistics Institute, (at MIT & Harvard) of the Linguistic Society of America, American Dialect Society Professor, June-July, 2005.
• Institut für maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, Stuttgart, Visiting Professorship, Winter, 2001-2002.
• (Swedish) Graduate School of Language Technology Member of Advisory Board, 2003-2009.
• NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Guest Researcher, Jan.-Mar.,1996
• Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence), Saarbrücken. Project Leader, 1990-1993.
• Stanford, Adjunct Professor, 1985-1990, in Linguistics and Symbolic Systems. CSLI Visiting Scientist, 1985-1990.
• Hewlett Packard Labs Palo Alto. Member of technical staff, senior engineer. 1985-1990.
• Linguistics, Ohio State University, Ph.D. 1984.