Members of the BiographTA team have been involved in the following events:
2012
Edition of the Special Issue of the Computational Linguistics Journal
on Modality and Negation (Computational Linguistics 38:2).
Organisation of the ACL workshop ExProM (Extra-propositional aspects of meaning in computational linguistics), that will take place on the 13th of July 2012 in Jeju Island, Korea.
Organisation of the *SEM 2012 Shared Task Shared on Resolving the Scope and Focus of Negation. This is the first shared task of the *SEM conference, that will take place on June 7-8 in Montreal, Canada.
Organisation of the task Machine reading of biomedical texts about the Alzheimer Diesease in the framework of the CLEF Lab QA4MRE (Question Answering for Machine Reading Evaluation).
Organisation of the task Processing modality and negation in the framework of the CLEF Lab QA4MRE (Question Answering for Machine Reading Evaluation).
Organisation the 22nd Meeting of Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands CLIN 22, Tilburg, The Netherlands..
2011
Organisation of the pilot task Processing modality and negation for machine reading, in the context of the QA4MRE Evaluation at CLEF 2011.
2010
Participation in the CoNLL Shared Task 2010 on Learning to detect hedges and their scopes in natural language text
Organisation of the BioTM 2010 Workshop Advances on Bio Text Mining that took place on the 10-11th of May 2010 in Ghent, Belgium.
Organisation of the NeSp-NLP 2010 Workshop on Negation and Speculation in NLP that took place on the 10th of July 2010 in Uppsala, Sweden.
Organisation of the Shared Task Filling the Gaps in Semantic Role Labelling: Towards Linking Events and their Participants in Discourse, in the context of SemEval 2010.
2009
Participation in the CoNLL Shared Task 2009.
Participation in the BioNLP Shared Task 2009.
2008
Local organisation of ECML-PKDD, 15-19 September, 2008, Antwerp, Belgium.
Participation in the CoNLL Shared Task 2008.
