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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

14/05/2013 Blog No Comments

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.

Example entity linking for tweets, to support tweets summarization

Personalized Time-Aware Tweets Summarization

08/02/2013 Conference Papers Publications No Comments

To appear as full paper at SIGIR 2013. In this paper we focus on selecting meaningful tweets given a user’s interests. Specifically, we consider the task of time-aware tweets summarization, based on a user’s history and collaborative social influences from “social circles.”

The University of Amsterdam at TREC 2012

09/11/2012 Blog Publications Unrefereed No Comments

This year the Information and Language Processing Systems (ILPS) group of the University of Amsterdam participated in the Microblog and the Knowledge Base Acceleration (KBA) tracks.

Identifying Entity Aspects in Microblog Posts

03/05/2012 Blog Conference Papers Publications No Comments

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 to the…

A Corpus for Entity Profiling in Microblog Posts

29/03/2012 Blog Publications Workshop Papers No Comments

Microblogs 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…

Zoekmachines van de toekomst

12/02/2012 Blog Publications Publicity No Comments

Er 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…

Adding Semantics to Microblog Posts

08/02/2012 Conference Papers Publications 6 Comments

Microblogs 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…

LREC 2012 Workshop on Language Engineering for Online Reputation Management

27/01/2012 Blog No Comments

I 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 poses challenging…

A comparison of five semantic linking algorithms on tweets

11/01/2012 Blog 4 Comments

Late 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 A Quick Peek at Three Content Analysis Services, this seemed like a perfect opportunity to test…

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