Affiliations

• Local
• Center for Language and Cognition, Groningen, Dir. 1999-pres.
• Alfa-informatica, aka Information Science, Groningen, Chair 1993-2006, 2007-2008.
• Computer Science, Groningen, Secondary appointment, 2001-pres.
• Research Master's Program in Linguistics, Instructor, 2005-pres.
• Language and Communication Technology, an Erasmus Mundus Master's program, Instructor, 2007-pres.
• Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT), member, 2003-pres.
• 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-pres.
• 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.
• Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Member, 2005-pres.
• Taal- en Spraaktechnologie Board Member, 2005-pres.
  Board oversees € 11M STEVIN program, (Spraak- en Taaltechnologische Essentiële Voorzieningen In het Nederlands)
• Musée de l'Homme, Visiting Scientist, 2006-2008.
• Meertens Institute, Member, Scientific Advisory Board, 2008-2013
• Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim. Member, Wissenschaftlicher Beirat, 2006-pres.
• (Swedish) Graduate School of Language Technology Member of Advisory Board, 2003-pres.
• Past Affiliations
• 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.
• NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Guest Researcher, Jan.-Mar.,1996
• Stanford, Adjunct Professor, 1985-1990, in Linguistics and Symbolic Systems. CSLI Visiting Scientist, 1985-1990.
• Linguistics, Ohio State University, Ph.D. 1984.