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We’re now hiring next year’s interns!

29/11/2013 Blog 2 Comments

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

29/07/2013 Blog No Comments

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.

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.

Entity Linking and Retrieval (SIGIR 2013)

18/04/2013 Blog No Comments

Our tutorial proposal entitled “Entity Linking and Retrieval” (with Krisztian Balog and Daan Odijk) has been accepted at SIGIR 2013!

Example entity linking for tweets, to support tweets summarization

Personalized Time-Aware Tweets Summarization

04/04/2013 Blog 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.”

Entity Linking and Retrieval

18/02/2013 Blog No Comments

Our tutorial proposal entitled “Entity Linking and Retrieval” (with Krisztian Balog and Daan Odijk) has been accepted at WWW2013!

Feeding the Second Screen: Semantic Linking based on Subtitles

18/02/2013 Blog Conference Papers Publications No Comments

Television is changing. Increasingly, broadcasts are consumed interactively. This allows broadcasters to provide consumers with additional background information that they may bookmark for later consumption.

Een bril die alles weet

11/02/2013 Blog Publications Publicity No Comments

Dit is het artikel uit het NRC van 9 februari 2013, getiteld “Een bril die alles weet.” De fantasie van Star Trek en The Matrix komt dichterbij. Computers gaan u steeds beter begrijpen. Straks kunt u gewoon met zoekmachines praten.

TREC 2012 summary

09/11/2012 Blog No Comments

In the 21st Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2012), seven tracks ran: KBA, Contextual suggestion, Session, Web, Medical, Crowdsourcing, and Microblog. Of these, Microblog attracted the largest number of participating groups (40) closely followed by Medical (24).

Edgar Meij

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