Archive for year 2012
Identifying Entity Aspects in Microblog Posts
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Online reputation management is about monitoring and handling the public image of entities (such as companies) on the Web. An important task in this area is identifying aspects of the entity of interest (such as products, services, competitors, key people, etc.) given a stream of microblog posts referring More >
A Corpus for Entity Profiling in Microblog Posts
0Microblogs have become an invaluable source of information for the purpose of online reputation management. An emerging problem in the field of online reputation management consists of identifying the key aspects of an entity commented in microblog posts. Streams of microblogs are of great value because of their direct and More >
Zoekmachines van de toekomst
0Er bestaat enige discussie over wat de logische opvolger zal zijn van web 2.0, waarin user-generated content, het delen van informatie en interoperabiliteit centraal stonden. Hoewel meer ideeën de ronde doen, is er veel steun voor het idee web 3.0 gelijk te stellen aan het semantische web. Het sturende idee More >
Adding Semantics to Microblog Posts
1Microblogs have become an important source of information for marketing, intelligence, and reputation management purposes. Streams of microblogs are of great value because of their direct and real-time nature. Determining what an individual microblog post is about, however, can be non-trivial because of creative language usage, the highly contextualized and More >
LREC 2012 Workshop on Language Engineering for Online Reputation Management
0I am co-organizing an LREC workshop on Language Engineering for Online Reputation Management.
The LREC 2012 workshop on Language Engineering for Online Reputation Management intends to bring together the Language Engineering community (including researchers and developers) with representatives from the Online Reputation Management industry, a fast-growing sector which More >
The University of Amsterdam at the TREC 2011 Session Track
0We describe the participation of the University of Amsterdam’s ILPS group in the Session track at TREC 2011.
The stream of interactions created by a user engaging with a search system contains a wealth of information. For retrieval purposes, previous interactions can help inform us about a user’s current More >
Team COMMIT at TREC 2011
0We describe the participation of Team COMMIT in this year’s Microblog and Entity track.
In our participation in the Microblog track, we used a feature-based approach. Specifically, we pursued a precision oriented recency-aware retrieval approach for tweets. Amongst others we used various types of external data. In particular, we More >
DutchHatTrick: Semantic query modeling, ConText, section detection, and match score maximization.
0This report discusses the collaborative work of the ErasmusMC, University of Twente, and the University of Amsterdam on the TREC 2011 Medical track. Here, the task is to retrieve patient visits from the University of Pittsburgh NLP Repository for 35 topics. The repository consists of 101,711 patient reports, More >
ECIR preprints published
0The camera-ready version of the ECIR papers, A Framework for Unsupervised Spam Detection in Social Networking Sites (with Maarten Bosma and Wouter Weerkamp) and Adaptive Temporal Query Modeling (with Hendrike Peetz, Wouter Weerkamp, and More >
A comparison of five semantic linking algorithms on tweets
2Late last December, Yahoo! released a new version of their Content Analysis service and they announced that the initial version will be deprecated in 2012. Inspired by a recent post by Tony Hirst, entitled More >