Forthcoming

Successful extraction of opposites by means of surface patterns with part-of-speech information only. at CLIN-21, Ghent, Belgium, Feb 10, 2011.

2010

Automatic extraction of antonyms by means of lexico-syntactic patterns for Lexical Contrasts Reading Group, Utrecht, the Netherlands, April 19, 2010.
Location: Stijlkamer (room 0.06), Janskerkhof 13a (Utrecht University)

Defining Antonymy: What Can we Learn from Corpus? for Discourse and Communication Reading Group, Groningen, the Netherlands, March 25, 2010.

Automatic extraction of antonymous verbs during CLIN-20, Utrecht, the Netherlands, Feb 5, 2010.

Automatic extraction of verbal antonymy during TIN-dag, Utrecht, the Netherlands, Feb 6, 2010.

2009


The role of animacy and referential form on disambiguation of grammatical functions in Russian at the conference Russian in Contrast, Oslo, Norway, September 17-19, 2009.

Automatic Relation Extraction -- Can Antonym Knowledge Help Synonym Extraction? (together with J.Spenader, T. van de Cruys, T. van der Kleij and E. Tjong Kim Sang) at the NODALIDA workshop WordNets and other Lexical Semantic Resources - between Lexical Semantics, Lexicography, Terminology and Formal Ontologies, Odense, Denmark, May 14, 2009.

Automatic acquisition of antonyms: what can we learn from corpora? BCN Retreat, Odoorn, the Netherlands, April 2, 2009.

Distinguishing antonymy from other lexical relations.
(together with Jennifer Spenader) at TIN-dag 2009, Utrecht, the Netherlands, February 7, 2009.

Using lexico-syntactic patterns for automatic antonym extraction.
(together with Jennifer Spenader and Tom van der Kleij) at CLIN 19 (the 19th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands), Groningen, the Netherlands, January 22, 2009.

Determining Reliable Discourse Markers for Contrast Relations.
(together with Jennifer Spenader) at IWCS-8 (Eighth International Conference on Computational Semantics), Tilburg, the Netherlands, January 7-9, 2009.

2008

Presentation & discussion of The myth of conventional implicature by Kent Bach (1999) at Syntax and semantics promovendi reading group, Groningen, the Netherlands, Nov 25, 2008.

Conventional implicatures induced by Russian connective 'a'.
Presentation at ESSLLI workhop on formal and experimental approaches to discourse particles and modal adverbs, Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Germany, August 4-15, 2008.

Frequency Effects on Lexical Accessibility of Adjectives in Antonym Pairs.
Presentation at TABU Day, University of Groningen, the Netherlands, June 6, 2008.

Positive and Negative Adjectives and their Representation in Lexical Resources (together with Jennifer Spenader). Poster Presentation at the LOT Winter School, Tilburg, the Netherlands, Jan 7-18, 2008.

How Lexicon Can Help to Build a Sound Ontology
(together with Jennifer Spenader & Bea Valkenier). Poster Presentation at the LOT Winter School, Tilburg, the Netherlands, Jan 7-18, 2008.

2007

Versatility and Restrictions on the Use of Russian a. Presentation at the Fifth Semantics in the Netherlands Day: SiN V, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands, Sept 28, 2007.

Lexical and Perceptual Grounding of a Sound Ontology (together with Jennifer Spenader & Bea Valkenier). Poster Presentation at the 10th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue: TSD2007, Pilsen, Czech Republic, Sept 3-7, 2007.

Incorporating Polarity in Lexical Resources (together with Jennifer Spenader). Poster Presentation at the Fourth International Workshop on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon: GL2007, Paris, France, May 10-11, 2007.

Mat' ljubit doč: SVO or OVS? (Word Order Variation in Russian). Colloquia series Optimal Communication, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, March 21, 2007.

Word order variation in Russian: a corpus based study. Presented at CLIN 17, Leuven, Belgium, Jan.12, 2007.