Category: Publications

A list of my scientific publications. You can use the menu above to filter on a specific type or use the term cloud to look for publications on a certain topic. Alternatively, you can use the search box if you know what you’re looking for. Another version of this list can be found on Google Scholar.

linking open data datasets

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…
Research on Twitter

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…
P30 difference plot

Team COMMIT at TREC 2011

25/01/2012 Publications Unrefereed No Comments
We 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 examined…
Plot of a query-specific burst

Adaptive Temporal Query Modeling

23/11/2011 Conference Papers Publications No Comments
We present an approach to query modeling that uses the temporal distribution of documents in an initially retrieved set of documents. Such distributions tend to exhibit bursts, especially in news related document collections. We hypothesize that documents in those bursts are more likely to be relevant than others. Predicated on…