We’re now hiring next year’s interns!

I’m happy to announce that we have just opened up our applications for next year’s internships at Yahoo Labs in Barcelona. So, if you’re a PhD student in a related field, do consider applying. Especially if you’re interested in spending some time in sunny Barcelona and gaining research experience along…

Entity Linking and Retrieval Tutorial @ SIGIR 2013 – Slides, Code, and Bibliography

The material for our “Entity Linking and Retrieval” tutorial (with Krisztian Balog and Daan Odijk) for SIGIR 2013 has been updated and is available online on GitHub (slides), Dropbox (slides), Mendeley, and CodeAcademy. All material is summarized at the webpage for the tutorial: http://ejmeij.github.io/entity-linking-and-retrieval-tutorial/. See my other blogpost for a brief summary.

Do support groups members disclose less to their partners? the dynamics of HIV disclosure in four African countries

To appear in BMC Public Health. Background: Recent efforts to curtail the HIV epidemic in Africa have emphasized preventing sexual transmission to partners through antiretroviral therapy. A component of current strategies is disclosure to partners, thus understanding its motivations will help maximise results. This study examines the rates, dynamics and consequences…
Semantic TED

Multilingual Semantic Linking for Video Streams: Making “Ideas Worth Sharing” More Accessible

This paper describes our (winning!) submission to the Developers Challenge at WoLE2013, “Doing Good by Linking Entities.” We present a fully automatic system – called “Semantic TED” – which provides intelligent suggestions in the form of links to Wikipedia articles for video streams in multiple languages, based on the subtitles…

Entity Linking and Retrieval Tutorial – Slides, Code, and Bibliography

The material for our “Entity Linking and Retrieval” tutorial (with Krisztian Balog and Daan Odijk) for WWW2013 is now available online on GitHub, Mendeley, and CodeAcademy. All material is summarized at the webpage for the tutorial: http://ejmeij.github.io/entity-linking-and-retrieval-tutorial/. See my other blogpost for a brief summary.