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I am assistant professor of Information Retrieval at the Faculty of Humanities. My research is part of the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation. Both are part of the University of Amsterdam.
Postal address
Archives and Information Studies/Humanities, University of Amsterdam, Turfdraagsterpad 9, NL-1012XT AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands.Research
My research covers various aspects of Information Storage and Retrieval, see IR evaluation efforts:- INEX: INititative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval
- IREVAL: SIGIR 2009 Workshop on the Future of IR Evaluation
- README: Retrieving Encoded Archival Desciptions More Effectively.
- MultiMATCH: Multilingual/Multimedia Access To Cultural Heritage.
- EfFoRT: Effective Focused Retrieval Techniques.
- MuSeUM: Multiple-collection Searching Using Metadata.
- My WordNet related research.
- A sneak preview of Internet opinion polling.
- Analysis of Dutch Politics (in Dutch).
Teaching
- Most of the courses I'm involved in can be found here.