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<lastBuildDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:50:13 +0100</lastBuildDate><item><title>SIGIR 2012 Call for Doctoral Consortium Submissions</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Events</category><dc:date>2012-01-30T23:06:21+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/d17b685e6e9db5cf0cf1db0f5e034ee3-292.html#unique-entry-id-292</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/d17b685e6e9db5cf0cf1db0f5e034ee3-292.html#unique-entry-id-292</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The Call for Submissions for the SIGIR 2012 Doctoral Consortium is available now at http://sigir.org/sigir2012/callforcoctoralconsortium.php. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Real-Time Analysis and Mining of Social Streams (ICWSM 2012)</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Events</category><dc:date>2012-01-09T09:28:43+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/24c2041046bed5d063ef9f3bc0eab13f-290.html#unique-entry-id-290</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/24c2041046bed5d063ef9f3bc0eab13f-290.html#unique-entry-id-290</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The workshop aims to bring together experts in real-time analysis and mining of social streams and to further develop and exchange knowledge around these tasks. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Language engineering for online reputation management (LREC 2012)</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Events</category><dc:date>2012-01-09T09:18:15+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/35cee2ffd02cd570e4b2e71509a968f1-289.html#unique-entry-id-289</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/35cee2ffd02cd570e4b2e71509a968f1-289.html#unique-entry-id-289</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The aim of the workshop is to bring together the language engineering community (including researchers and developers) with representatives from the online reputation management industry, with the ultimate goal of establishing a five-year roadmap on the topic plus a description of the language technologies required to get there in terms of resources, algorithms and applications. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>ECIR 2012 paper online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2011-12-28T18:46:20+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/3eee3ca6d335c5146fd30d5a911c6729-288.html#unique-entry-id-288</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/3eee3ca6d335c5146fd30d5a911c6729-288.html#unique-entry-id-288</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We extract textual features from each channel to use in our prediction model and we explore whether data from either of these channels can help to extract a better set of textual feature for prediction. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>ACM TOIS paper online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2011-12-13T00:32:13+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/2b2b2ae64438e1f09f61a4adabccc9ab-286.html#unique-entry-id-286</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/2b2b2ae64438e1f09f61a4adabccc9ab-286.html#unique-entry-id-286</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Users often search for entities instead of documents, and in this setting, are willing to provide extra input, in addition to a series of query terms, such as category information and example entities. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>NIPS Workshop paper online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2011-12-12T13:56:34+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/9b1bda5c66bf3b5944e011d604af7025-285.html#unique-entry-id-285</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/9b1bda5c66bf3b5944e011d604af7025-285.html#unique-entry-id-285</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[A critical problem in information retrieval is online learning to rank, where a search engine strives to improve the quality of the ranked result lists it presents to users on the basis of those users&rsquo; interactions with those result lists.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>WSDM 2012 paper online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2011-12-03T16:41:49+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/cf07ce9ade6e04eabaf478cc713df26d-284.html#unique-entry-id-284</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/cf07ce9ade6e04eabaf478cc713df26d-284.html#unique-entry-id-284</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We propose a solution to the problem of determining what a microblog post is about through semantic linking: we add semantics to posts by automatically identifying concepts that are semantically related to it and generating links to the corresponding Wikipedia articles. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Five ECIR 2012 papers</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2011-11-26T09:59:56+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/c13252d0fc0c46196add2ab0767d6aae-283.html#unique-entry-id-283</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/c13252d0fc0c46196add2ab0767d6aae-283.html#unique-entry-id-283</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Weerkamp, "A Framework for Unsupervised Spam Detection in Social Networking Sites&rdquo;</li>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>CCCT Seminar</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Events</category><dc:date>2011-11-22T09:29:47+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/090178e78fe530c270148c9bc852e114-282.html#unique-entry-id-282</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/090178e78fe530c270148c9bc852e114-282.html#unique-entry-id-282</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[As usual, there will be two speakers, from two faculties, who will highlight different angles of the topic at hand.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>PhD positions</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Jobs</category><dc:date>2011-11-19T16:58:53+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/4865aa187552dfc450f0f867b0d49f2a-277.html#unique-entry-id-277</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/4865aa187552dfc450f0f867b0d49f2a-277.html#unique-entry-id-277</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<li>One position in the general area of information retrieval, partially funded by the Erasmus Mundus program; you need an MSc degree in computer science or artificial intelligence and a demonstrable interest in algorithms for data-intensive problems. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>One more CIKM 2011 paper online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2011-08-26T06:55:57+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/d2741828b7cd5568a392762ded56e43c-276.html#unique-entry-id-276</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/d2741828b7cd5568a392762ded56e43c-276.html#unique-entry-id-276</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[A second CIKM 2011 paper, <i>Automatic Link Generation with Wikipedia: A Case Study in Annotating Radiology Reports</i> by Jiyin He, Maarten de Rijke, Merlijn Sevenster, Rob van Ommering and Yuechen Qian is now also available online. 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>CIKM 2011 paper online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2011-08-01T09:44:03+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/9a12078adf28bf46bc5dc6cbe4dbd296-275.html#unique-entry-id-275</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/9a12078adf28bf46bc5dc6cbe4dbd296-275.html#unique-entry-id-275</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[One of our papers for this year&rsquo;s CIKM is now online: <i>A Probabilistic Method for Inferring Preferences from Clicks</i> by Katja Hofmann, Shimon Whiteson and Maarten de Rijke.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Vacancy: professor in machine learning</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2011-06-15T15:01:16+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/b4850c472cc06bad6b2ce746fe3745f8-273.html#unique-entry-id-273</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/b4850c472cc06bad6b2ce746fe3745f8-273.html#unique-entry-id-273</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[For further information, questions and/or comments you may contact the chair of the selection committee, Maarten de Rijke (tel. +31 20 525 5358, e-mail: derijke@uva.nl). ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>CLEF 2011: Final Call for Papers</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2011-04-18T09:20:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/f0572533cdd1fe09cfe8f1336358d4a8-271.html#unique-entry-id-271</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/f0572533cdd1fe09cfe8f1336358d4a8-271.html#unique-entry-id-271</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[It will consist of two main parts: a peer-reviewed conference on research papers, and a series of labs, which will continue the CLEF tradition of community-based evaluation and discussion on evaluation issues.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Information Retrieval Journal paper on blog feed search online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2011-04-18T09:14:03+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/8740d36539caf86fe92793eb869a5548-270.html#unique-entry-id-270</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/8740d36539caf86fe92793eb869a5548-270.html#unique-entry-id-270</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Working in the setting of a probabilistic language modeling approach to information retrieval, we model the blog feed search task by aggregating over a blogger&rsquo;s posts to collect evidence of relevance to the topic and persistence of interest in the topic. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Call for Doctoral Consortium Submissions</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>SIGIR 2011</category><dc:date>2011-01-23T21:57:24+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/83bd5149d211d7df71ae42206dc38ed0-269.html#unique-entry-id-269</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/83bd5149d211d7df71ae42206dc38ed0-269.html#unique-entry-id-269</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[One-page extended abstracts (submitted after their selection by students who are selected to participate in the Consortium) will be published in the SIGIR Conference Proceedings.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>ECIR 2011 papers online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2011-01-19T09:00:47+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/271c8d8bec8b2fde438e24fb21f3c457-268.html#unique-entry-id-268</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/271c8d8bec8b2fde438e24fb21f3c457-268.html#unique-entry-id-268</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Our results show that finding a balance between exploration and exploitation can substantially improve online retrieval performance, bringing us one step closer to making online learning to rank work in practice.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>WSDM 2011 paper online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2010-11-25T10:07:22+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/789accbc4f382f6af63ff73367ba472e-267.html#unique-entry-id-267</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/789accbc4f382f6af63ff73367ba472e-267.html#unique-entry-id-267</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We follow a three-step approach: we derive multiple query models from a given source news article, which are then used to retrieve utterances from a target social media index, resulting in multiple ranked lists that we then merge into a single result list using data fusion techniques.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>CIKM 2010 paper online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2010-08-30T23:25:24+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/5e026bb5289167afdbc9c34bd5aec012-266.html#unique-entry-id-266</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/5e026bb5289167afdbc9c34bd5aec012-266.html#unique-entry-id-266</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Two types of error emerge (1) entities of the wrong type pollute the ranking and (2) while somehow associated to the source entity, some retrieved entities do not engage in the right relation with it. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Fully funded PhD position in search engine evaluation methodology</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2010-06-30T22:47:26+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/014da47667689bcfc746841488ee56c2-265.html#unique-entry-id-265</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/014da47667689bcfc746841488ee56c2-265.html#unique-entry-id-265</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We are looking for very strong candidates who: have a good knowledge of programming in at least one of the following languages: C, C++, Java, Python, or Perl; have a solid background in statistics and/or machine learning; enjoy working with large, real-world data sets; are interested in working on research problems related to next generation search engines; have excellent communication skills, both oral and written]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Another CLEF 2010 Conference paper online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2010-06-19T14:07:43+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/4a65342f35d673b6676b3187a5785cdf-263.html#unique-entry-id-263</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/4a65342f35d673b6676b3187a5785cdf-263.html#unique-entry-id-263</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[However, recent evidence suggests that more sophisticated metrics are needed that go beyond mere lexical matching of system-produced descriptors against a ground truth, allowing for graded relevance and rewarding diversity in the list of descriptors returned.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>CLEF 2010 Conference paper online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2010-06-19T14:04:10+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/21a23fff086075a9742657b65b0cf2bb-262.html#unique-entry-id-262</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/21a23fff086075a9742657b65b0cf2bb-262.html#unique-entry-id-262</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[One of our CLEF 2010 conference papers, <i>Validating Query Simulators: An Experiment Using Commercial Searches and Purchases</i> by Bouke Huurnink, Katja Hofmann, Maarten de Rijke and Marc Bron, is available online now.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>ACL 2010 paper online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2010-05-13T00:29:38+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/c9dc43f5ba47f56187c26263e22b1e91-261.html#unique-entry-id-261</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/c9dc43f5ba47f56187c26263e22b1e91-261.html#unique-entry-id-261</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We motivate the need for such lexicons in the field of media analysis, describe a bootstrapping method for generating a topic-specific lexicon from a general purpose polarity lexicon, and evaluate the quality of the generated lexicons both manually and using a TREC Blog track test set for opinionated blog post retrieval. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Semantic Search workshop paper online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2010-04-24T06:28:57+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/8e8a5b24629ffcd6a90cfffed3e1a86a-260.html#unique-entry-id-260</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/8e8a5b24629ffcd6a90cfffed3e1a86a-260.html#unique-entry-id-260</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We consider the task of entity search and examine to which extent state-of-art information retrieval (IR) and semantic web (SW) technologies are capable of answering information needs that focus on entities. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Another INEX 2009 paper online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2010-04-20T22:45:47+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/d80ff6adf4f6c91663b1207f36ddf7e6-259.html#unique-entry-id-259</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/d80ff6adf4f6c91663b1207f36ddf7e6-259.html#unique-entry-id-259</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[A second INEX 2009, <i>Combining term-based and category-based representations for entity search</i> by Krisztian Balog, Marc Bron, Maarten de Rijke and Wouter Weerkamp is also online now.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>INEX 2009 paper online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2010-04-20T22:43:54+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/c8d5c45477784aa093d5982899d6bda7-258.html#unique-entry-id-258</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/c8d5c45477784aa093d5982899d6bda7-258.html#unique-entry-id-258</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We apply machine learning methods to the anchor-to-best-entry-point task and explore the impact of the following aspects of our approaches: features, learning methods as well as the collection used for training the models. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>CIVR 2010 paper online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2010-04-16T07:13:24+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/5571ecb2f017964a8bfe85897303b51a-257.html#unique-entry-id-257</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/5571ecb2f017964a8bfe85897303b51a-257.html#unique-entry-id-257</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[To reflect the retrieval practice of both the archive and the video retrieval community as closely as possible, our experiments with three video search engines incorporate archive-created catalog entries as well as state-of-the-art multimedia content analysis results.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>NAACL Social Media workshop paper online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2010-04-13T09:04:55+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/1bdf6c0065fb021127a8f8b90395daad-256.html#unique-entry-id-256</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/1bdf6c0065fb021127a8f8b90395daad-256.html#unique-entry-id-256</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[These criteria can be formulated as the expectations that people have of the product in advance (i.e., the reasons to buy), but can also be expressed as reports of experiences while using the product and comparisons with other products. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>And one more JASIST paper online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2010-03-21T20:35:20+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/d68cc8ac28b18320a96573fdd76018cf-255.html#unique-entry-id-255</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/d68cc8ac28b18320a96573fdd76018cf-255.html#unique-entry-id-255</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<i>Search Behavior of Media Professionals at an Audiovisual Archive: A Transaction Log Analysis</i> by Bouke Huurnink, Laura Hollink, Wietske van den Heuvel and Maarten de Rijke is now available online on the <i>Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology</i> site at http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/asi.21327.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Another JASIST paper online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2010-02-17T05:58:41+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/250066d8c948636214bca5a1159978ec-254.html#unique-entry-id-254</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/250066d8c948636214bca5a1159978ec-254.html#unique-entry-id-254</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<i>Contextual Factors for Finding Similar Experts</i> by Katja Hofmann, Krisztian Balog, Toine Bogers and Maarten de Rijke was accepted by the <i>Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology</i> late last year. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>ECIR 2010 papers online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2009-12-23T11:29:06+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/bec3ca5fd0afb2f5342e9a0b3ae386dc-253.html#unique-entry-id-253</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/bec3ca5fd0afb2f5342e9a0b3ae386dc-253.html#unique-entry-id-253</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Users often search for entities instead of documents and in this setting are willing to provide extra input, in addition to a query, such as category information and example entities.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>JASIST paper online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2009-11-22T14:05:10+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/c379baa321ce8f9e4f712823167f056c-252.html#unique-entry-id-252</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/c379baa321ce8f9e4f712823167f056c-252.html#unique-entry-id-252</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<i>Predicting Podcast Preference: An Analysis Framework and its Application</i> by Manos Tsagkias, Martha Larson and Maarten de Rijke was accepted by <i>Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology</i> a while back. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>CLEF 2010 Call for lab proposals</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2009-10-21T11:41:15+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/0eedf3424dec2cf38673770e367c9a04-251.html#unique-entry-id-251</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/0eedf3424dec2cf38673770e367c9a04-251.html#unique-entry-id-251</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Two different forms of labs will be offered: labs can either be run "campaign-style" during the twelve month period preceding the conference, or adopt a more "workshop"-style format that can explore issues of information access evaluation and related fields. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>IPM paper online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2009-10-15T17:46:08+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/2a660a894e0cb83895802876ae1033d7-250.html#unique-entry-id-250</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/2a660a894e0cb83895802876ae1033d7-250.html#unique-entry-id-250</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<i>Conceptual Languages for Domain-Specific Retrieval</i> by Edgar Meij, Dolf Trieschnigg, Maarten de Rijke and Wessel Kraaij was accepted for publication in <i>Information Processing and Management</i> a while back; it is <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2009.09.005">available</a> now. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>CLEF 2009 Working Notes paper online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2009-08-29T12:27:59+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/b16885063dda6dc0509d25a6cef42477-248.html#unique-entry-id-248</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/b16885063dda6dc0509d25a6cef42477-248.html#unique-entry-id-248</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Listening to ''Atto I, Cavatina - Una voce poco fa - Io sono docile'', by Maria Callas / Luigi Alva / Tito Gobbi / Fritz Ollendorff / Nicola Zaccaria / Gabriella Carturan / Mario Carlin / Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus (Play Count: 11)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>IJDAR paper online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2009-08-27T23:24:29+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/be870df4f14d079bf92cfeaea420635f-247.html#unique-entry-id-247</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/be870df4f14d079bf92cfeaea420635f-247.html#unique-entry-id-247</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[In order to present users with better blog feed search results, we develop a measure of topical consistency that is able to capture whether or not a blog is topically focused.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>CIKM 2009 papers online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2009-08-20T16:48:04+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/d6f8df31ac79ff441aed547f513010fd-246.html#unique-entry-id-246</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/d6f8df31ac79ff441aed547f513010fd-246.html#unique-entry-id-246</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We address the prediction task as a two stage classification task: a binary classification identifies articles with the potential to receive comments, and a second binary classification receives the output from the first step to label articles ``low'' or ``high'' comment volume.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>ISWC 2009 paper online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2009-08-20T16:36:17+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/e771aff1303dfb9e1740cb7b88eccd64-245.html#unique-entry-id-245</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/e771aff1303dfb9e1740cb7b88eccd64-245.html#unique-entry-id-245</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Query transformation is a  strategy often used in search engines to derive queries that are able to return more useful search results than the original query and most popular search engines provide facilities that let users complete, specify, or reformulate their queries.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Interdisciplinary Science Reviews paper online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2009-07-14T11:15:54+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/d310dfa731e916c2cf8b9f32ed165626-244.html#unique-entry-id-244</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/d310dfa731e916c2cf8b9f32ed165626-244.html#unique-entry-id-244</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[With the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision as one of its partners, the MuNCH project aims to investigate new methods for improving access to a wide range of audiovisual documents.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>ACL-IJCNLP 2009 paper online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2009-05-12T22:37:18+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/7ca91644367f449837618d6bb9b5cac1-243.html#unique-entry-id-243</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/7ca91644367f449837618d6bb9b5cac1-243.html#unique-entry-id-243</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Results using two external collections (news and Wikipedia) show that external expansion for retrieval of user generated content is effective; besides, conditioning the external collection on the query is very  beneficial, and making candidate expansion terms dependent on just the document seems sufficient.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Two vacancies</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Work</category><dc:date>2009-03-10T06:50:59+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/3f2892f72b9560f314c8d04705b7af43-242.html#unique-entry-id-242</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/3f2892f72b9560f314c8d04705b7af43-242.html#unique-entry-id-242</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[From an exclusive focus on producing radio, television and publishing program guides, broadcasting organizations have moved to cross-media production companies where users are directly involved in online follow-up discussions.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>WePS2 paper online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2009-02-21T09:45:49+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/ddb84c8a03269e01d874f94fc13306db-241.html#unique-entry-id-241</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/ddb84c8a03269e01d874f94fc13306db-241.html#unique-entry-id-241</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[For the  clustering task, our focus was on replicating the lessons learned at WEPS1 on the data set made available as part of WEPS2 and on experimenting with a voting-based combination of clustering methods.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>WebCLEF 2008 overview online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2009-02-21T09:42:38+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/9eac3d77a9a23f402d7d89c4ee35a875-240.html#unique-entry-id-240</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/9eac3d77a9a23f402d7d89c4ee35a875-240.html#unique-entry-id-240</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Similarly to the 2007 edition of WebCLEF, the 2008 edition implements a multilingual ``information synthesis" task, where, for a given topic, participating systems have to extract important snippets from web pages.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>CLEF 2008 paper on domain-specific search online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2009-02-09T21:46:48+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/5d8371815a0e126310e158a942599327-239.html#unique-entry-id-239</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/5d8371815a0e126310e158a942599327-239.html#unique-entry-id-239</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Applying concept models for blind relevance feedback, results in even bigger improvements over a query-likelihood baseline, in terms of mean average precision and early precision.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Another ECIR 2009 paper online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2009-01-05T20:14:53+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/c96b05026f53a6d5c463ee0216a0a3dc-238.html#unique-entry-id-238</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/c96b05026f53a6d5c463ee0216a0a3dc-238.html#unique-entry-id-238</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<i>Using Contextual Information to Improve Search in Email Archives</i>, an ECIR 2009 paper by Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, and Maarten de Rijke is available online now. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Some ECIR 2009 papers online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2008-12-24T14:42:33+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/58a1627d8deafd99706f78903debbd14-237.html#unique-entry-id-237</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/58a1627d8deafd99706f78903debbd14-237.html#unique-entry-id-237</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The second paper is <i>Investigating the Global Semantic Impact of Speech Recognition Error on Spoken Content Collections</i> by Martha Larson, Manos Tsagkias, Jiyin He and Maarten de Rijke. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Catching up</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2008-11-21T22:50:25+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/3f069b580d0e792cd8331ba1a7424395-236.html#unique-entry-id-236</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/3f069b580d0e792cd8331ba1a7424395-236.html#unique-entry-id-236</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[    <li><b>The University of Amsterdam at TREC 2008: Blog, Enterprise, and Relevance Feedback</b>, K. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>CLEF 2008 Domain Specific Track working notes paper online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2008-08-23T14:46:20+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/9e1357c8f24b6c229bdb5caf5cdbfe4e-235.html#unique-entry-id-235</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/9e1357c8f24b6c229bdb5caf5cdbfe4e-235.html#unique-entry-id-235</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The research questions we address are  threefold: (i) what are the effects of estimating and applying  relevance models to the domain specific collection used at CLEF  2008, (ii) what are the results of parsimonizing these relevance models, and (iii) what are the results of applying concept models for blind relevance feedback?  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>CIKM 2008 paper online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2008-08-16T00:33:03+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/3fb7be0f85ab74f465db3d0cc7725ffc-234.html#unique-entry-id-234</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/3fb7be0f85ab74f465db3d0cc7725ffc-234.html#unique-entry-id-234</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We complement both document and proximity-based approaches to expert finding by importing global evidence of expertise, i.e., evidence obtained using information that is not available in the immediate proximity of a candidate expert's name occurrence or even on the same page on which the name occurs.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>WICOW 2008 paper online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2008-08-15T09:04:20+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/0c73ed60880afac803b06ee02e8d277d-233.html#unique-entry-id-233</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/0c73ed60880afac803b06ee02e8d277d-233.html#unique-entry-id-233</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The PodCred framework is derived from a review of the literature on credibility for other media, a survey of prescriptive standards for podcasting, and a detailed data analysis of award winning podcasts.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>ACM MIR 2008 paper online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2008-08-15T09:01:37+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/fb8673ba9f03f6af56eed186cf61499a-232.html#unique-entry-id-232</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/fb8673ba9f03f6af56eed186cf61499a-232.html#unique-entry-id-232</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<i>Assessing Concept Selection for Video Retrieval</i> by Bouke Huurning, Katja Hofmann and Maarten de Rijke is available online now. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Vacant PhD position</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-07-25T14:23:11+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/2969b9d14d4d54c3913969846419dcab-230.html#unique-entry-id-230</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/2969b9d14d4d54c3913969846419dcab-230.html#unique-entry-id-230</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[This position will become available within the TNT-rpoject (Tracking News Events and their Impact); preliminary information on the project is available at <a href="http://ilps.science.uva.nl/research/projects/tnt">this page</a>.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>SIGIR 2008 workshop paper online (4)</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2008-06-28T17:03:01+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/c46257244bcfa300883d4802876aa280-229.html#unique-entry-id-229</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/c46257244bcfa300883d4802876aa280-229.html#unique-entry-id-229</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Since the segment-level clouds generated from ASR-transcripts prove useful, we examine an adaptation of text tiling techniques to speech in order to be able to generate segments as part of a completely automated indexing and structuring system for browsing of spoken audio. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>SIGIR 2008 workshop paper online (3)</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2008-06-27T06:34:35+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/fbc15dd2035c5c053f960d915f64b761-228.html#unique-entry-id-228</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/fbc15dd2035c5c053f960d915f64b761-228.html#unique-entry-id-228</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We report on a pilot study on an expert finding task in which we explore how contextual factors identified by expertise seeking models can be integrated with topic-centric retrieval algorithms and examine whether they can improve retrieval performance for this task.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>SIGIR 2008 Workshop paper online (2)</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2008-06-21T08:11:50+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/19c11732dcd66e9abdb34870f5717037-227.html#unique-entry-id-227</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/19c11732dcd66e9abdb34870f5717037-227.html#unique-entry-id-227</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<i>Blogger, Stick to your Story: Modeling Topical Noise in Blogs with Coherence Measures</i> by Jiyin He, Wouter Weerkamp, Martha Larson, and Maarten de Rijke is available now. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>SIGIR 2008 Workshop paper online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2008-06-20T15:52:09+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/a3764150a4453ac9426c15856596e3b3-226.html#unique-entry-id-226</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/a3764150a4453ac9426c15856596e3b3-226.html#unique-entry-id-226</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[A baseline NEN system from the literature (that normalizes surface forms to Wikipedia pages) performs considerably worse on UGC than on edited news: accuracy drops from 80% to 65% for a Dutch language data set and from 94% to 77% for English. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Web lecture fragments</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Work</category><dc:date>2008-06-18T22:09:39+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/e127e5b7da683d17c3bd1564b142c051-225.html#unique-entry-id-225</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/e127e5b7da683d17c3bd1564b142c051-225.html#unique-entry-id-225</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The University's ICTO program (ICT for education) has decided to fund a project lead by Martha Larson aimed at generating re-usable snippets from video lectures. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>ECAI 2008 paper online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2008-05-20T15:32:46+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/a0eb0b1678906ce0bf47df29f0200642-224.html#unique-entry-id-224</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/a0eb0b1678906ce0bf47df29f0200642-224.html#unique-entry-id-224</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Working in the setting of statistical language modeling, we model the task by aggregating a blogger's blog posts to collect evidence of relevance to the topic and persistence of interest in the topic. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>PhD defense Krisztian Balog</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Work</category><dc:date>2008-05-13T21:34:02+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/240ac1e5ddf7b8bbdb3c6cdcc55ccae0-223.html#unique-entry-id-223</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/240ac1e5ddf7b8bbdb3c6cdcc55ccae0-223.html#unique-entry-id-223</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Krisztian Balog will defend his PhD thesis <i>People Search in the Enterprise</i> on September 30, this year.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>SIGIR 2008 poster online (6)</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2008-04-24T06:03:11+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/a69deab80408271e26c82fa1f342b4c0-222.html#unique-entry-id-222</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/a69deab80408271e26c82fa1f342b4c0-222.html#unique-entry-id-222</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[A variety of approaches, based on ontology structure, information content, association, or context have been proposed to indicate the relatedness of abstract ideas. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>SIGIR 2008 paper online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2008-04-23T22:02:57+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/c5246144ea0fc5028240ec2be5f74711-221.html#unique-entry-id-221</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/c5246144ea0fc5028240ec2be5f74711-221.html#unique-entry-id-221</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We compare several methods for sampling expansion terms from the example pages to support query-dependent and query-independent query expansion; the latter is motivated by the wish to increase ``aspect recall,'' and attempts to uncover aspects of the information need not captured by the query.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>SIGIR 2008 poster online (5)</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2008-04-23T12:34:04+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/06d05bd1cc7ade492d926230ac03728f-220.html#unique-entry-id-220</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/06d05bd1cc7ade492d926230ac03728f-220.html#unique-entry-id-220</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[An investigation of the use of term clouds as surrogates for podcasts demonstrates that ASR term clouds closely approximate term clouds derived from human-generated transcripts across a range of cloud sizes.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>SIGIR 2008 poster online (4)</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2008-04-23T09:14:56+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/27cd79e9da4bec3ad0e1a2b12327931d-219.html#unique-entry-id-219</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/27cd79e9da4bec3ad0e1a2b12327931d-219.html#unique-entry-id-219</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We introduce a parsimonious conceptual query model whose retrieval performance matches that of relevance models, while it is also able to generate high quality navigation suggestions in the form of concepts.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>SIGIR 2008 poster online (3)</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2008-04-23T09:07:23+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/b402c90a1f41896064c038d5db263c22-218.html#unique-entry-id-218</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/b402c90a1f41896064c038d5db263c22-218.html#unique-entry-id-218</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Our parsimonious relevance models (i) improve retrieval effectiveness in terms of MAP on all  collections, (ii) significantly outperform their non-parsimonious counterparts on most measures, and (iii) have a precision enhancing effect, unlike other blind relevance feedback methods.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>SIGIR 2008 poster online (2)</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2008-04-19T08:24:05+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/cbdbd92b51091c484b1d183e95fec322-217.html#unique-entry-id-217</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/cbdbd92b51091c484b1d183e95fec322-217.html#unique-entry-id-217</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[In the poster we address the task of separating personal from non-personal blogs, and report on a set of baseline experiments where we compare the performance on  a small set of features across a set of five classifiers. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>SIGIR 2008 poster online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2008-04-19T08:17:14+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/db3c2e06863fb85dd888df984dd16fd1-216.html#unique-entry-id-216</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/db3c2e06863fb85dd888df984dd16fd1-216.html#unique-entry-id-216</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The two models capture the idea that a human will often search for key blogs by spotting highly relevant posts (the Posting model) or by taking global aspects of the blog into account (the Blogger model).  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>ACL 2008 paper online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2008-04-19T06:54:12+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/4a7007e6f2a6d2bd5b4e8f1005e14bf2-215.html#unique-entry-id-215</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/4a7007e6f2a6d2bd5b4e8f1005e14bf2-215.html#unique-entry-id-215</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We consider two groups of indicators: <i>post level</i> (determined using information about individual blog posts only) and <i>blog level</i> (determined using information from the underlying blogs).  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>VideoCLEF &#x2014; Call for Participation</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Work</category><dc:date>2008-03-18T20:12:27+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/bb63134953128d1bc1a8a8395154bb92-214.html#unique-entry-id-214</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/bb63134953128d1bc1a8a8395154bb92-214.html#unique-entry-id-214</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[There are several optional tasks: classifying episodes using both speech-transcripts and metadata (or potentially including visual content), translation of content to generate feeds in English (or another language of your choice), selection of keyframes to represent individual episodes, and shot boundary and keframe extraction from the video source.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>DIR 2008 paper online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2008-03-16T06:42:17+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/911f6df01fc8fa0fcd153b95919044c0-213.html#unique-entry-id-213</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/911f6df01fc8fa0fcd153b95919044c0-213.html#unique-entry-id-213</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The paper will be presented at DIR 2008 this April; it reports on ongoing work where we examine the use of query expansion against multiple external corpora so as to uncover multiple perspective on a given topic. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>CLEF 2007 and NLPIX 2008 papers online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2008-03-15T13:43:20+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/713a5bff715922322f817516fc00a768-208.html#unique-entry-id-208</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/713a5bff715922322f817516fc00a768-208.html#unique-entry-id-208</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Also available now is <i>Personal Name Resolution of Web People Search</i> by Leif Azzopardi, Krisztian Balog and Maarten de Rijke; this paper will appear in the WWW 2008 workshop on NLP Challenges in the Information Explosion Era (NLPIX 2008).
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>WebCLEF 2008 &#x2014; Call for Participation</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-02-07T18:10:56+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/c9729b95fb8e9a26b3ff806779fe421f-207.html#unique-entry-id-207</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/c9729b95fb8e9a26b3ff806779fe421f-207.html#unique-entry-id-207</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[In 2008, we evaluate a multilingual information synthesis task, where, for a given topic, participating systems are asked to extract important snippets from web pages (fetched from the live web and provided by the task organizers). &nbsp;]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>TREC 2007 proceedings papers online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2008-02-06T13:08:00+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/4d8161d6d455da9063a5946c27023ebf-206.html#unique-entry-id-206</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/4d8161d6d455da9063a5946c27023ebf-206.html#unique-entry-id-206</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Two contributions to the TREC 2007 proceedings, <i>Query and Document Models for Enterprise Search</i> by Krisztian Balog, Katja Hofmann, Wouter Weerkamp and Maarten de Rijke, and <i>Language Modeling Approaches to Blog Post and Feed Finding</i> by Breyten Ernsting, Wouter Weerkamp and Maarten de Rijke, are online now.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Internet Information 2007-2008</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-02-04T23:09:29+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/f9093d1bd20806c5794d1b818c867539-205.html#unique-entry-id-205</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/f9093d1bd20806c5794d1b818c867539-205.html#unique-entry-id-205</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Information about the <i>Internet Information</i> course, that starts this week, is available at <a href="http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/Teaching/II0708/">http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/Teaching/II0708/</a>.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>ECIR 2008 paper online (3)</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2008-01-12T08:30:19+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/afe8c4e0e3ef5eb247916ea443d6829a-203.html#unique-entry-id-203</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/afe8c4e0e3ef5eb247916ea443d6829a-203.html#unique-entry-id-203</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Since the introduction of the Enterprise Track at TREC in 2005, the task of finding experts has generated a lot of interest within the research community. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>ECIR 2008 paper online (2)</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2008-01-12T08:27:40+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/28a0c245b349be5e6d212b301623cbd1-202.html#unique-entry-id-202</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/28a0c245b349be5e6d212b301623cbd1-202.html#unique-entry-id-202</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Two further query scores, QC-2 and QC-3, are developed by constraining QC-1 in order to capture the semantic similarity among query topic aspects.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>ECIR 2008 paper online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2008-01-10T21:19:54+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/c1873d0f048c7f178e4c96aba74f09b1-201.html#unique-entry-id-201</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/c1873d0f048c7f178e4c96aba74f09b1-201.html#unique-entry-id-201</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<i>The Impact of Named Entity Normalization on Information Retrieval for Question Answering</i> by Mahboob Alam Khalid, Valentin Jijkoun and Maarten de Rijke is available now. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Project Information Retrieval 2007-2008 (januari)</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-12-13T15:18:38+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/93d28bfb5b9c5694ed13e74cd4d867e6-200.html#unique-entry-id-200</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/93d28bfb5b9c5694ed13e74cd4d867e6-200.html#unique-entry-id-200</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Informatie over Project Information Retrieval 2007-2008 (januari) komt binnenkort beschikbaar via http://ilps.science.uva.nl/Teaching/PIR08Jan/.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>LTP 2007-2008 course information available</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-12-13T15:08:17+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/4422e1f1726c25a975b9071f089c32e1-199.html#unique-entry-id-199</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/4422e1f1726c25a975b9071f089c32e1-199.html#unique-entry-id-199</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The Language Technology Project 2007-2008 (MSc AI) will be organized by Dr Valentin Jijkoun; preliminary information about the project is available at a separate site. 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Ongoing mail issues</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-11-12T10:43:04+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/993e85ac5e223303201254e5de8ebe14-198.html#unique-entry-id-198</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/993e85ac5e223303201254e5de8ebe14-198.html#unique-entry-id-198</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[If you get a "mail undeliverable" or "insufficient permission" reply to mail you sent me, I did <b>not</b> receive it. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>WIDM 2007 paper published</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2007-11-12T10:27:29+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/f72c1b3ac5163710c872623544709548-197.html#unique-entry-id-197</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/f72c1b3ac5163710c872623544709548-197.html#unique-entry-id-197</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[After giving a high-level overview of the Dutch `commentosphere' we zoom in on extracting the discussion structure found in flat comment threads; people not only comment on the news article, they also heavily comment on other comments, resembling discussion fora. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>TREC 2007 Working Notes papers published</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Teaching</category><dc:date>2007-11-08T03:11:44+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/d6af7a1dadc604d302d193f0e602ce60-196.html#unique-entry-id-196</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/d6af7a1dadc604d302d193f0e602ce60-196.html#unique-entry-id-196</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[In the opinion task we looked at the differences in performance between Indri and our mixture model, the influence of external expansion and document priors to improve opinion finding; results show that an out-of-the-box Indri implementation outperforms our mixture model, and that external expansion on a news corpus is very benificial.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>CIKM 2007 paper published</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Teaching</category><dc:date>2007-11-08T00:55:45+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/6521f3074c288a771b74d6e8d44d2826-195.html#unique-entry-id-195</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/6521f3074c288a771b74d6e8d44d2826-195.html#unique-entry-id-195</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Given a text collection, for a given set of seed entities we use co-occurence statistics to define a class membership function that is used to rank candidate entities for inclusion in the class.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>WI 2007 paper published</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Teaching</category><dc:date>2007-11-03T23:29:12+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/1094da09b14ec31fe1c6c94404e3cdeb-192.html#unique-entry-id-192</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/1094da09b14ec31fe1c6c94404e3cdeb-192.html#unique-entry-id-192</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We compare several methods for addressing the task, and find that a mixture of content-based, link-based, and layout-based features outperforms other methods, especially in combination with the use of so-called reference corpora that capture the key properties of entities of a common type. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Mail lost</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Work</category><dc:date>2007-10-23T06:32:02+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/4f6332e1e0ee6979685a26c4f2202e63-191.html#unique-entry-id-191</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/4f6332e1e0ee6979685a26c4f2202e63-191.html#unique-entry-id-191</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Due to mail server problems yesterday, mail that was sent to me recently has been irrecoverably lost. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>TREC working notes papers online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Papers</category><dc:date>2007-10-15T22:05:22+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/c22c8fdbf06e9edb929a626c8251388e-190.html#unique-entry-id-190</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/c22c8fdbf06e9edb929a626c8251388e-190.html#unique-entry-id-190</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[For our work on the blog track, see this one, and go here for our work on the enterprise track.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Verhuizen met Casema (7)</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-09-05T09:29:26+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/f726f684f9207991b7834d0ea760fd76-189.html#unique-entry-id-189</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/f726f684f9207991b7834d0ea760fd76-189.html#unique-entry-id-189</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Op mijn vraag waarom dit zolang moest duren luidt het antwoord dat "de kastjes omzetten" een activiteit is die Casema uitbesteedt, en dat er nog al eens problemen zijn met die uitbestedingen. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Verhuizen met Casema (6)</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-08-31T09:32:17+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/645fd20380e1b81cc23be33181ad7e66-188.html#unique-entry-id-188</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/645fd20380e1b81cc23be33181ad7e66-188.html#unique-entry-id-188</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Twee gesprekken; aan het eind van het eerste gesprek meldt de Casema-persoon dat er wellicht een technisch probleem is (verrassing!)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Verhuizen met Casema (5)</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-08-30T21:51:28+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/f62cdb5ea23e9f1aae36c1bdc484b98a-187.html#unique-entry-id-187</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/f62cdb5ea23e9f1aae36c1bdc484b98a-187.html#unique-entry-id-187</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Casema heeft zich opnieuw niet aan haar belofte gehouden: er was vandaag rond lunchtijd geen signaal, en er is nu nog steeds geen signaal.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Verhuizen met Casema (4)</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-08-28T10:55:39+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/45992a7118ab821031d45cd33a194a9b-186.html#unique-entry-id-186</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/45992a7118ab821031d45cd33a194a9b-186.html#unique-entry-id-186</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Nou ja, nog maar een keer met Casema gebeld, dan, en een ander nummertje geselecteerd gemaakt in het keuzemenu, waarna inderdaad beloofd wordt dat we het abonnementsgeld voor de dagen waarop we geen signaal hebben terug krijgen.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Verhuizen met Casema (3)</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-08-25T19:03:57+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/e63318c9573e941f32de459aa811093d-185.html#unique-entry-id-185</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/e63318c9573e941f32de459aa811093d-185.html#unique-entry-id-185</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Dat hoeft niet in uw geval; we kennen u al, en zetten uw modem nu in het systeem!]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Verhuizen met Casema (2)</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-08-24T16:52:18+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/f5035a725aa814fb3232f9477b359968-184.html#unique-entry-id-184</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/f5035a725aa814fb3232f9477b359968-184.html#unique-entry-id-184</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Anders dan beloofd, toch geen Casema-signaal gisteren, en ook geen bevestigingsbrief. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Verhuizen met Casema</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-08-21T10:47:21+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/7d7111526a8b87e5229c04d63b0b15a3-183.html#unique-entry-id-183</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/7d7111526a8b87e5229c04d63b0b15a3-183.html#unique-entry-id-183</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA["De verhuizing van uw signaal gaat gewoon door op de 23ste; de bevestigingsbrief wordt alsnog verzonden; oh, en verhuispakketten, dat doen we allang niet meer." ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Away time</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-08-01T00:01:57+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/528c65e9c3695a5816f972f7bbbc778e-182.html#unique-entry-id-182</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/528c65e9c3695a5816f972f7bbbc778e-182.html#unique-entry-id-182</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[For really urgent matters, contact Virginie Mes at virginie at science dot uva dot nl.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Mail lost</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-07-24T11:47:17+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/e6f1ee30d6478d58ae4ac13d2242a2e7-181.html#unique-entry-id-181</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/e6f1ee30d6478d58ae4ac13d2242a2e7-181.html#unique-entry-id-181</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Due to a mail server swap and wrong subsequent quota settings, an unknown fraction of the mail sent to me over the past 24 hours has gone lost.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Vacancies within the ILPS group</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Work</category><dc:date>2007-07-23T11:40:34+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/8181587e420b58c7ad0bf9f7e8e7071f-180.html#unique-entry-id-180</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/8181587e420b58c7ad0bf9f7e8e7071f-180.html#unique-entry-id-180</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We have a number of vacancies within the ILPS group; 2 positions related to the search and mining cultural heritage (CH) information, and an assistant professorship in applied language technology. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>At SIGIR &#x2026;</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-07-22T06:38:34+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/434630edbf62bad907df0db38ba1f790-179.html#unique-entry-id-179</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/434630edbf62bad907df0db38ba1f790-179.html#unique-entry-id-179</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[No meetings this week&hellip; I'll be spending most of my time at SIGIR this week. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Apologies</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-07-17T05:38:01+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/778cc0feeaef39c565a6105a497e19c5-178.html#unique-entry-id-178</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/778cc0feeaef39c565a6105a497e19c5-178.html#unique-entry-id-178</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[While I acted as group leader for ILPS, trying to promote us as a group and emphasizing the collaborative nature of much of our work, the text snippet, which mostly deals with MoodViews, may unfortunately be interpreted differently so that it fails to recognize the contributions of my UvA colleagues and students.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Olifanten</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-05-05T04:01:58+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/fa745a0e48516b282fe543a3ccb7fe57-177.html#unique-entry-id-177</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/fa745a0e48516b282fe543a3ccb7fe57-177.html#unique-entry-id-177</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[In, of in de buurt van, het Kr&uuml;ger-park worden we na een aantal dagen vergeefs zoeken naar olifanten, bijna omver gelopen door een heuse kudde. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Geduld (8)</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-04-14T16:37:57+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/701367626bf91bfacda00815c9ce3776-176.html#unique-entry-id-176</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/701367626bf91bfacda00815c9ce3776-176.html#unique-entry-id-176</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<i>Status</i>: afgesloten op 2 maart; heropend op 8 maart wegens niet goed functioneren van de machine bali; opnieuw afgesloten op 9 maart; en weer heropend op 13 maart; op 19/3 is de machine weer in de lucht; afgesloten; op 21/3 is een special unix group voor de machines beschikbaar gemaakt; job weer geopend: de machine bali blijft problemen geven; op 14/4 is bali opnieuw in de lucht gekomen; afgerond.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Gilad Mishne&#x27;s PhD thesis</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Work</category><dc:date>2007-04-06T12:48:35+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/7726966c961c01d4d2d69b41a98dde4e-175.html#unique-entry-id-175</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/7726966c961c01d4d2d69b41a98dde4e-175.html#unique-entry-id-175</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Gilad's defense is planned for April 27, 2007, at 10:00 in the Agnietenkapel, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231, Amsterdam
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Nog wat</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-03-19T09:53:59+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/d689c0e77f470e6bcf620c18a0474e1b-174.html#unique-entry-id-174</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/d689c0e77f470e6bcf620c18a0474e1b-174.html#unique-entry-id-174</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Naast het vervolgverhaal rondom de ICT-<i>ondersteuning</i> begint nu ook een ander aspect te spelen: de ICT-<i>infrastructuur</i> van het IvI behoeft nieuwe investeringen. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Geduld (7)</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-03-19T09:48:22+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/c390c9aad8404f82bfed283d7fc9b360-173.html#unique-entry-id-173</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/c390c9aad8404f82bfed283d7fc9b360-173.html#unique-entry-id-173</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<i>Acties tot nu</i>: specificaties vastgesteld; machine besteld; inmiddels gearriveerd; FH toegewezen aan klus; het is niet mogelijk om een update te krijgen rondom deze machine; speelt inmiddels vier maanden; op 15/3 de belofte gekregen dat de klus op 16/3 afgerond zou worden; op 19/3 is 21/3 beloofd;
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Geduld (6)</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-03-13T16:42:32+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/01bbad3151ab215da854eaf848400f42-172.html#unique-entry-id-172</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/01bbad3151ab215da854eaf848400f42-172.html#unique-entry-id-172</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<i>Acties tot nu</i>: een mailinglist zou zijn aangemaakt; welke dat is onduidelijk; dit was ook niet het verzoek; nu is duidelijk dat deze mailing list een andere klus betreft (ID 11,059); het zou hier om een "beleidsbeslissing" gaan;
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Geduld (5)</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-03-10T21:00:22+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/342bbf3ce83862c35a43915a5fc5f830-171.html#unique-entry-id-171</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/342bbf3ce83862c35a43915a5fc5f830-171.html#unique-entry-id-171</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<i>Acties tot nu</i>: specificaties vastgesteld; machines besteld; machines afgeleverd; interactie tussen ILPS en JR over details, permissies, etc.; in de wk van 26/2 vinden experimenteren met de machines plaats; verdere experimenten in de week van 5 maart;
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Geduld (4)</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-03-08T16:07:45+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/4e7ecb7b96b3b07c603d686934b74d7a-170.html#unique-entry-id-170</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/4e7ecb7b96b3b07c603d686934b74d7a-170.html#unique-entry-id-170</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<i>Acties tot nu</i>: een mailinglist zou zijn aangemaakt; welke dat is onduidelijk; dit was ook niet het verzoek; nu is duidelijk dat deze mailing list een andere klus betreft (ID 11,059)
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Geduld (3)</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-03-03T13:32:26+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/2332deb7d57338ab872b444127faf660-169.html#unique-entry-id-169</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/2332deb7d57338ab872b444127faf660-169.html#unique-entry-id-169</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<i>Acties tot nu</i>: specificaties vastgesteld; machines besteld; machines afgeleverd; interactie tussen ILPS en JR over details, permissies, etc.; in de wk van 26/2 vinden experimenteren met de machines plaats; 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Geduld (2)</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-02-27T09:21:17+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/c7f0a34aebda35c32627a35ff45b75b2-168.html#unique-entry-id-168</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/c7f0a34aebda35c32627a35ff45b75b2-168.html#unique-entry-id-168</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<i>Status</i>: status van klus en verblijfplaats van de machines onbekend; cursus wordt geannuleerd; klacht ingediend; gekeken wordt nu of reeds aanwezige machines snel kunnen worden omgebouwd
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Powerset?</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-02-17T05:26:47+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/74d61edf9480758cc3ee708a9ec81f17-164.html#unique-entry-id-164</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/74d61edf9480758cc3ee708a9ec81f17-164.html#unique-entry-id-164</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[En als het om queries van 2 tot 3 woorden gaat, dan weten we allemaal wie de concurrentie is ... dat daar flink wat aan natuurlijke taalonderzoek gedaan wordt, en dat het verre van triviaal is om iets substantieels anders/beters te doen (waardoor mensen zouden overstappen van hun huidige zoekmachine).
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Informatiekunde Amsterdam</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-02-15T06:22:28+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/2c02504dab350efe47f2dec37d69db2b-163.html#unique-entry-id-163</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/2c02504dab350efe47f2dec37d69db2b-163.html#unique-entry-id-163</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Gebruik je favoriete zoekmachine om te zoeken naar Informatiekunde Amsterdam, en bekijk een filmpje waarin mijn collega Maarten Marx spreekt over volgende-generatie zoekmachines, sentiment-analyse, en nog veel meer tijdens een voorlichtingsbijeenkomst over informatiekunde voor middelbare scholieren (in Nemo).
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>VerkiezingsKijker 2007 gelanceerd</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-02-12T09:47:07+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/0eaf51bf426f3c9ba21ee718fe786508-162.html#unique-entry-id-162</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/0eaf51bf426f3c9ba21ee718fe786508-162.html#unique-entry-id-162</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Deze verkiezingszoekmachine is nu aangepast voor de provinciale statenverkiezingen van 7 maart 2007, en stelt gebruikers in staat om, per provincie, de partijprogramma's te doorzoeken en standpunten te vergelijken.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Internet Information 2006/2007</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-01-31T23:17:49+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/d67a00827e6b0cf4203ae655b8cd4663-161.html#unique-entry-id-161</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/d67a00827e6b0cf4203ae655b8cd4663-161.html#unique-entry-id-161</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Information on this year's <b>Internet Information</b> course is being made available at <a href="http://ilps.science.uva.nl/Teaching/II0607/">this page</a>. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Gemengde gevoelens</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-01-02T05:58:32+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/972050682ab1d6b381be3c1f20f8a554-160.html#unique-entry-id-160</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/972050682ab1d6b381be3c1f20f8a554-160.html#unique-entry-id-160</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[De voorlaatste dag van het voorbije jaar brachten we door bij <i>Notenkraker en Muizenkoning</i> van het Nationale Ballet, later in de avond gevolgd door een aantal rondjes <i>nigiri</i>. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Assistant professorship vacancy posted</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-12-21T05:49:43+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/70ceb5a33a99e2f4facd0e6303b41414-159.html#unique-entry-id-159</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/70ceb5a33a99e2f4facd0e6303b41414-159.html#unique-entry-id-159</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[At the same time as the PhD vacancy mentioned earlier, a vacancy for an assistant professor in information retrieval has also been posted. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>PhD vacancy posted</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-12-21T05:47:13+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/1c7b33406713c1025911c7d9b1a407fe-158.html#unique-entry-id-158</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/1c7b33406713c1025911c7d9b1a407fe-158.html#unique-entry-id-158</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The PhD vacancy on blogs announced earlier has now been posted officially. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>7th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-12-20T06:10:19+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/bc6ade9941aca071075b34a54662c5dc-155.html#unique-entry-id-155</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/bc6ade9941aca071075b34a54662c5dc-155.html#unique-entry-id-155</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The Primary aim  this week, of the DIR 2007 workshop is to provide an international meeting place where researchers from the domain of information retrieval and related disciplines can exchange and present innovative research developments. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>PhD defense Gilad Mishne</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-12-16T08:12:39+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/59be4045b47dbc7307feecad2e971479-152.html#unique-entry-id-152</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/59be4045b47dbc7307feecad2e971479-152.html#unique-entry-id-152</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Listening to ''Long Run Dub'', by King Tubby (Play Count: 6)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Mail server issues</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-12-13T16:31:56+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/0f726933f866f8f2861dbdc032a0df9e-151.html#unique-entry-id-151</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/0f726933f866f8f2861dbdc032a0df9e-151.html#unique-entry-id-151</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[To reach me (and avoid delays that are even longer than usual), please use my gmail account, where my user name is maarten.de.rijke 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>PhD vacancy</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-12-09T06:26:24+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/085020ce7753498ce5d1c77673b72227-150.html#unique-entry-id-150</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/085020ce7753498ce5d1c77673b72227-150.html#unique-entry-id-150</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[If you're interested in demos such as moodviews.com and verkiezingskijker.nl, and more generally in next generation search engines, watch this space; more details will be available soon.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>VerkiezingsKijker</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-11-23T09:32:19+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/4d0c8600d08ad74bc81ffe8e03c31257-149.html#unique-entry-id-149</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/4d0c8600d08ad74bc81ffe8e03c31257-149.html#unique-entry-id-149</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Dat was het dan: in de laatste paar dagen voorafgaand meer dan 20.000 bezoekers en meer dan 25.000 zoekvragen per dag op VerkiezingsKijker.nl. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>B&#x26;ouml;rkur Sigurbj&#x26;ouml;rnsson&#x27;s PhD thesis</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Work</category><dc:date>2006-11-11T12:00:10+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/f4e508d17d456136e8d019e84fa84fc5-148.html#unique-entry-id-148</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/f4e508d17d456136e8d019e84fa84fc5-148.html#unique-entry-id-148</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[B&ouml;rkur Sigurbj&ouml;rnsson's PhD thesis <i>Focused Information Access using XML Element Retrieval</i> is available now. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Verkiezingen</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-11-10T06:49:38+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/16528acf1972f6e12459504bdff592cd-147.html#unique-entry-id-147</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/16528acf1972f6e12459504bdff592cd-147.html#unique-entry-id-147</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Het aantal bezoekers aan VerkiezingsKijker.nl neemt snel toe... de verkiezingen komen meer en meer in de belangstelling te staan. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>VerkiezingsKijker</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-11-07T06:55:37+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/52c8716e28c48726ffbb670c8bbc1ee1-146.html#unique-entry-id-146</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/52c8716e28c48726ffbb670c8bbc1ee1-146.html#unique-entry-id-146</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We hebben "Programvergelijking Plus" omgedoopt in <i>VerkiezingsKijker</i>, en sinds vannacht is het mogelijk om trends in blogs waar te nemen (met koppelingen naar relevante blog- en nieuwsberichten). ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Valentin Jijkoun&#x27;s PhD thesis</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><category>Work</category><dc:date>2006-11-02T22:58:27+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/ef97f8aadf7dd7480f3c640740f935aa-145.html#unique-entry-id-145</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/ef97f8aadf7dd7480f3c640740f935aa-145.html#unique-entry-id-145</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Valentin Jijkoun (or Zhizhkun)'s PhD thesis <i>Graph Transformations for Natural Language Processing</i> is available now. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Programvergelijking Plus</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-10-26T21:33:34+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/53cbf66f8d3b3c8c73c00ff9efee1f04-144.html#unique-entry-id-144</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/53cbf66f8d3b3c8c73c00ff9efee1f04-144.html#unique-entry-id-144</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[With national elections scheduled for November 22, the site offers search facilities for exploring the programs of the participating parties, and for searching through politically oriented news messages and blog posts. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Vissen</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-10-22T10:57:44+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/e3a1e4ff589a5d4a3b9aa0c6b65fd731-143.html#unique-entry-id-143</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/e3a1e4ff589a5d4a3b9aa0c6b65fd731-143.html#unique-entry-id-143</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Het heeft even geduurd (20 jaar?), maar ik ben nu eindelijk de trotse bezitter van <i>Vissen</i> van Han Koster: 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Data Mining 2006/2007</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-10-21T11:24:15+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/d8459760711282e4c96f00f3c677e726-142.html#unique-entry-id-142</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/d8459760711282e4c96f00f3c677e726-142.html#unique-entry-id-142</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[De web site voor Data Mining 2006/2007 is nu in de lucht (zie hier); inhoud wordt in de komende dagen toegevoegd.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>ZookMa</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-10-20T23:41:58+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/8a7b6be5e700550fe3ad4504ae24c909-141.html#unique-entry-id-141</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/8a7b6be5e700550fe3ad4504ae24c909-141.html#unique-entry-id-141</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[More information about the ZookMa search engine that featured in my inaugural lecture today is available now at http://zookma.com.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>PhD vacancy text mining</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-09-17T22:43:27+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/2462fecf5643ba72e378cf9e6afd71ae-140.html#unique-entry-id-140</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/2462fecf5643ba72e378cf9e6afd71ae-140.html#unique-entry-id-140</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We are recruiting for a 3 yr PhD position; the ad with all the details is available on the University's site.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Inaugural lecture</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-09-11T09:57:18+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/0fa0ea0aff56a12f222ca9a31f36cd10-139.html#unique-entry-id-139</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/0fa0ea0aff56a12f222ca9a31f36cd10-139.html#unique-entry-id-139</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[After succesfully delaying my inaugural lecture for two and a half years, it's time to give in: October 20, 2.30 pm, in De Aula of the Universiteit van Amsterdam. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Reading mail for the time being</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-09-03T23:06:31+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/cd3f27e6b9f47128251b5c7c009e1161-138.html#unique-entry-id-138</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/cd3f27e6b9f47128251b5c7c009e1161-138.html#unique-entry-id-138</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Just got back from three weeks traveling through Scandinavia: we covered over 8000 kilometers, came back with over 2000 photos, and I find myself staring at 7611 unread email messages. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Rep&#x26;#250;blica Bananera</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-07-21T12:37:44+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/4fc17564b1ade50177960f37e13eee16-137.html#unique-entry-id-137</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/4fc17564b1ade50177960f37e13eee16-137.html#unique-entry-id-137</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[You can't help but wonder whether this is indeed the result of the privatizations of the electricity companies over the past few years... delivering electricity, non-stop as in 24/7, is no longer their priority&#8212;keeping investors and stock owners happy is. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>PhD defense B&#x26;ouml;rkur Sigurbj&#x26;ouml;rnsson</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-07-18T11:44:40+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/c26bba31a79d556448797181f4bb7c8d-136.html#unique-entry-id-136</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/c26bba31a79d556448797181f4bb7c8d-136.html#unique-entry-id-136</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[B&ouml;rkur will defend his thesis on <i>Focused Information Access Using XML Element Retrieval</i> on December 14, 11am.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>PhD defense Valentin Jijkoun</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-07-17T10:20:18+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/cbbb4bbae256c149002f26709b29fee5-135.html#unique-entry-id-135</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/cbbb4bbae256c149002f26709b29fee5-135.html#unique-entry-id-135</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Working title <i>Graph Transformations for Natural Language Processing</i>.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>FAQ: Blog research</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-07-13T13:14:32+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/073bcfe727eb32cc49496420eb940abe-134.html#unique-entry-id-134</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/073bcfe727eb32cc49496420eb940abe-134.html#unique-entry-id-134</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We have work with a clear commercial motivation (ad placement, product recommendation, sales prediction), work looking at the dynamics and network structure of blogs (time series analysis, community finding), work on classifying blogs (yes/no blogs, personal vs non-personal blogs, mood prediction), work on search (opinionated posts, blogs, product aspects), work on the relation between consumer generated media and official media (in the setting of small investors), work on arabic blogs, on political blogs... as I said, there's a wealth of possibilities.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Informal workshop on IR</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-06-27T06:38:47+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/797f1a4e4916458fca9cebadb297105b-132.html#unique-entry-id-132</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/797f1a4e4916458fca9cebadb297105b-132.html#unique-entry-id-132</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[There'll be an informal workshop on IR on June 29, at the Informatics Institute in Amsterdam
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>WiQA 2006 topics released</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-06-16T00:23:51+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/8e959635edd416a4ed4dc3a1d5ea9638-131.html#unique-entry-id-131</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/8e959635edd416a4ed4dc3a1d5ea9638-131.html#unique-entry-id-131</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The topics for the WiQA 2006 pilot have now been released: 50+ monolingual test topics each for Dutch, English, and Spanish, as well as 80 development topics for English. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>WebCLEF 2006 topics released</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-06-15T23:55:40+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/314c5a9608580dedb3f0f93aae589558-130.html#unique-entry-id-130</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/314c5a9608580dedb3f0f93aae589558-130.html#unique-entry-id-130</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The WebCLEF 2006 topics have been released and are available for download at http://ilps.science.uva.nl/WebCLEF/WebCLEF2006&#8212;1940 in total, old new, manual and automatically generated. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Eight vacancies in Information Retrieval and Language Technology</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-04-04T21:24:28+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/15ed2cdaaa86e0fd017a2ee5d208e955-127.html#unique-entry-id-127</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/15ed2cdaaa86e0fd017a2ee5d208e955-127.html#unique-entry-id-127</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<li><b>Research programmer</b>, you will work with language technology, relational databases, web services and text mining technology to support the development of the next generation of the Dutch WordNet; 1 yr; part time; funded through the NWO/STEVIN program; see this <a href="http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/Research/Projects/Cornetto/">separate site</a>.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Crisis inactive</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-02-28T09:57:01+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/140c06940a9f59f4b5d887af57b64971-126.html#unique-entry-id-126</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/140c06940a9f59f4b5d887af57b64971-126.html#unique-entry-id-126</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[As part of a national <a  href="http://www.nederlandtegenterrorisme.nl/">anti-terrorism campaign</a> there is a site called  crisis.nl. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Resultaten Project Information Retrieval en Language Technology Project</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-02-27T22:45:55+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/37ada78df5f5228867d1046507724abc-125.html#unique-entry-id-125</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/37ada78df5f5228867d1046507724abc-125.html#unique-entry-id-125</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[De resultaten voor Project Information Retrieval en Language Technology Project zijn nu bekend: <a href="http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/LTP0506-resultaten-anoniem.pdf">LTP0506-resultaten-anoniem.pdf</a> en <a href="http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/PIR0506-resultaten-anoniem.pdf">PIR0506-resultaten-anoniem.pdf</a>.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Herkansing data mining</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-02-19T21:35:07+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/bdc3d9fe672e5df60b780caf84e6e765-124.html#unique-entry-id-124</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/bdc3d9fe672e5df60b780caf84e6e765-124.html#unique-entry-id-124</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Net als het oorspronkelijke tentamen is ook de herkansing geen open boek tentamen; wel is het toegestaan een "spiekbrief" (1 A4tje) mee te nemen.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Het Witte Boekje</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-02-11T09:23:10+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/94a79e04390b5f25d595771a7f2f33b7-123.html#unique-entry-id-123</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/94a79e04390b5f25d595771a7f2f33b7-123.html#unique-entry-id-123</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Een aantal kranten, opiniebladen, en omroepen brengen later dit jaar het <b>Witte Boekje</b> uit, een alternatief voor de nieuwe spellingsregels in het <b>Groene Boekje</b> van de Taalunie, met eenvoudiger spellingsregels en duidelijker uitleg over de toepassingen van de regels. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>EACL 2006 papers online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-02-11T07:26:33+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/361e4501a058633abe8f911555d54e02-122.html#unique-entry-id-122</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/361e4501a058633abe8f911555d54e02-122.html#unique-entry-id-122</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Most of our EACL 2006 workshop papers and posters are online now: <a href="http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/Publications/Files/eacl2006-blogclassification.pdf">blog classification</a>, <a href="http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/Publications/Files/eacl2006-similarsentences.pdf">finding similar sentences in Wikipedia</a>, <a href="http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/Publications/Files/eacl2006-moodsignals.pdf">Moodsignals</a>.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Web site for Internet Information available</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-02-06T16:01:36+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/7bf85690e99f978a3c25a6d3e97aa064-121.html#unique-entry-id-121</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/7bf85690e99f978a3c25a6d3e97aa064-121.html#unique-entry-id-121</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The web site for the 2005/2006 edition of the Internet Information course is available now, at <a href="http://ilps.science.uva.nl/Teaching/II0506/">this page</a>.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>TREC 2005 papers online</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-02-06T07:01:23+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/e64d763ae5f1a24562a32c136eedf84b-120.html#unique-entry-id-120</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/e64d763ae5f1a24562a32c136eedf84b-120.html#unique-entry-id-120</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Three papers describing the participation of the ILPS group in TREC 2005 are available now,  <a href="http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/Publications/Files/uams-trec-2005-qa-final.pdf">question answering</a>, <a  href="http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/Publications/Files/uams-trec-2005-enterprise-final.pdf">enterprise search</a>, and <a href="http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/Publications/Files/uams-trec-2005-genomics-final.pdf">biomedical search</a>.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Sentiment and Subjectivity in Text</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-01-28T16:44:41+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/badd9ddc77cbd7d909a9fc6722bb76fc-119.html#unique-entry-id-119</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/badd9ddc77cbd7d909a9fc6722bb76fc-119.html#unique-entry-id-119</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[A workshop on sentiment and subjectivity in text will be organized at ACL 2006 (Sydney, July 22). ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Project Information Retrieval</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-01-03T23:21:26+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/5a2d248a84c459ddc5c35f1d0fea8b4f-118.html#unique-entry-id-118</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/5a2d248a84c459ddc5c35f1d0fea8b4f-118.html#unique-entry-id-118</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[De web site voor Project Information Retrieval (BIKPIR5) is nu in de lucht, en wel op deze locatie. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>WiQA: Question answering using Wikipedia</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-12-18T20:47:50+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/fe35b909f0e4bc2f77857ea18667129e-117.html#unique-entry-id-117</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/fe35b909f0e4bc2f77857ea18667129e-117.html#unique-entry-id-117</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Within WiQA, the Question Answering using Wikipedia pilot to be launched as part of CLEF 2006, we will evaluate systems that do just this. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Language Technology Project</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-12-14T11:12:44+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/864a19a7e96423137767b880611332b8-116.html#unique-entry-id-116</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/864a19a7e96423137767b880611332b8-116.html#unique-entry-id-116</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The 2005/2006 edition of our Language Technology Project will be organized by <a href="http://www.science.uva.nl/~erikt/">Erik Tjong Kim Sang</a>. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Limited availability</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-12-09T22:39:51+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/6fb8f230df5ac72f5991154ca8f31a15-115.html#unique-entry-id-115</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/6fb8f230df5ac72f5991154ca8f31a15-115.html#unique-entry-id-115</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[If you want to meet me this year and haven't booked yet, you're out of luck.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Internet? Liever geen Casema</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-11-30T19:31:28+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/23d2d123b6fb74fb0b5f958ee297ab8b-114.html#unique-entry-id-114</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/23d2d123b6fb74fb0b5f958ee297ab8b-114.html#unique-entry-id-114</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Geen internet op zaterdag 26/11 (10-14), woensdag 30/11 (4:38-7:45), woensdag 30/11 (ja, dezelfde dag: 12:22-17:24).]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Vacancies in vertical search engine project</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-11-21T05:47:36+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/f7b35d466c26df326fec099a2fd42f7d-112.html#unique-entry-id-112</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/f7b35d466c26df326fec099a2fd42f7d-112.html#unique-entry-id-112</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The positions are part of the MuSeUM project (Multiple-collection Searching Using Metadata), in close collaboration with the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, where the people employed on this roject will spend 60% of their time. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>TREC blog track</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-11-20T15:53:00+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/bdcdac957267a157afb6bf06b5ca9f35-111.html#unique-entry-id-111</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/bdcdac957267a157afb6bf06b5ca9f35-111.html#unique-entry-id-111</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[To find out more, sign up for the trec-blog mailing list by sending an email message to listproc@nist.gov such that the body of the message consists of the line subscribe trec-blog <FirstName> <LastName> , and sign up for the TREC-blog wiki, by visiting <a href="http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/Wikis/">this page</a>.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>PhD position in IR/QA</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-11-13T20:14:00+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/422d4b12a6119f12e0c78c4e3af1f456-108.html#unique-entry-id-108</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/422d4b12a6119f12e0c78c4e3af1f456-108.html#unique-entry-id-108</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Applications should <b>not</b> be sent to me, but to the address listed on <a href="http://www.uva.nl/vacatures/object.cfm/objectID=1051FF0E-9C2D-4E22-B79269293A9E0996">this page</a>.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Postdoc position in IR/QA</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-11-13T20:05:00+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/7d67809fbb517c3bb0dc5932f0f7646e-107.html#unique-entry-id-107</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/7d67809fbb517c3bb0dc5932f0f7646e-107.html#unique-entry-id-107</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Applications should <b>not</b> be sent to me, but to the address provided on <a href="http://www.english.uva.nl/news/object.cfm/objectID=073CBCD6-E54D-4B1D-94D16E5FDAE54F4A">the page</a> that I just mentioned.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Data mining verplaatst</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-10-20T13:24:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/5bde6fcb779d5728473a9ed9acb7469e-106.html#unique-entry-id-106</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/5bde6fcb779d5728473a9ed9acb7469e-106.html#unique-entry-id-106</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Het hoorcollege van het vak data mining (BIKDM5) wordt verplaatst naar maandagmiddag, 15-17u, zaal C.206. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>EACL 2006 Workshops</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-10-19T14:26:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/2c6e6ef83094333dacdd25ebd69c3c80-105.html#unique-entry-id-105</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/2c6e6ef83094333dacdd25ebd69c3c80-105.html#unique-entry-id-105</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Details on the accepted workshop proposals for EACL 2006 are available at <a href="http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/EACL2006Workshops/">this location</a>.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Moodstickers&#x2026;</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-10-17T21:54:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/db6b09736e61d60c8c91e99d8137bdbf-98.html#unique-entry-id-98</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/db6b09736e61d60c8c91e99d8137bdbf-98.html#unique-entry-id-98</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Get a <a href="http://www.moodviews.com/Moodfeeds/Moodstickers">sticker</a>. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>MoodViews: Tools for Blog Mood Analysis</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-09-29T22:06:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/accd5e6360eda92954cd1d7072d903ef-95.html#unique-entry-id-95</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/accd5e6360eda92954cd1d7072d903ef-95.html#unique-entry-id-95</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[A page with demonstrator versions of tools for analyzing the moods in blogs is available now at http://www.moodviews.com/. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>New CLEF pilots for 2006</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-09-27T10:03:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/924ca75dfb36e6bf9485851ddec4ab7b-94.html#unique-entry-id-94</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/924ca75dfb36e6bf9485851ddec4ab7b-94.html#unique-entry-id-94</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Last year it was decided to do a pilot task on multilingual web retrieval, and this year we decided to set up a pilot for question answering against Wikipedia and a pilot on retrieval against blogs. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>One more vacancy</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-09-27T07:32:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/d56ae1b31d2e38a67c43e3bb397dadb7-90.html#unique-entry-id-90</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/d56ae1b31d2e38a67c43e3bb397dadb7-90.html#unique-entry-id-90</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[If you want to know more, do get in touch with David Ahn or me. 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>ILPS server back up</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-09-17T09:33:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/f2f07e8575f231b5c1e6cc7f88be511a-85.html#unique-entry-id-85</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/f2f07e8575f231b5c1e6cc7f88be511a-85.html#unique-entry-id-85</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The crash came at a very unfortunate time (they always do), with C|Net reporting on Moodgrapher just a few days before and our largest sponsor, NWO, contacting us on Thursday about using Moodgrapher for PR purposes.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Vacancy for a scientific programmer</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-09-14T06:48:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/f894af6ed2f05869f0683985a3cb5121-83.html#unique-entry-id-83</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/f894af6ed2f05869f0683985a3cb5121-83.html#unique-entry-id-83</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Listening to ''Ten Dangerous Matches 4'', by Scientist (Play Count: 25)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>SIGIR 2007 site</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-08-31T10:19:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/cd6f9fddaf3272992dcbe1247aba62bf-82.html#unique-entry-id-82</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/cd6f9fddaf3272992dcbe1247aba62bf-82.html#unique-entry-id-82</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The web site for SIGIR 2007 has been launched. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Cooling down in Moldova</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-08-15T11:26:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/ac38c480021aefd20a0f6f5baa3ad768-77.html#unique-entry-id-77</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/ac38c480021aefd20a0f6f5baa3ad768-77.html#unique-entry-id-77</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[A week ago, wandering around the village of Butuceni, in the center of Moldova, I needed to cool my head. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>ESSLLI 2005 Slides</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-08-10T17:49:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/62578d6ca6be14c6f6e0263c9859d487-75.html#unique-entry-id-75</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/62578d6ca6be14c6f6e0263c9859d487-75.html#unique-entry-id-75</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[PDF versions of the handouts for the ESSLLI 2005 course <b>Retrieving Content and Structure</b> are available now, for all five days, from this page.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Away time</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-07-30T07:42:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/ff3f9d3d9cda3ced8199f834cbb25d20-72.html#unique-entry-id-72</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/ff3f9d3d9cda3ced8199f834cbb25d20-72.html#unique-entry-id-72</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[For urgent matters call Fransje Enserink at +31 20 525 7561 or email her at enserink@science.uva.nl. 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Moodgrapher</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-07-08T19:59:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/a420137427b7ae54de7bce73f1d428ef-70.html#unique-entry-id-70</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/a420137427b7ae54de7bce73f1d428ef-70.html#unique-entry-id-70</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Check the <a href="http://ilps.science.uva.nl/cgi-bin/livejournal/mood">Moodgrapher</a> developed by Gilad Mishne; it's a barometer of the moods in the blog posts, to find out.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>WebCLEF results released</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-07-04T21:21:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/429abff830735b31f33d4ea2c9f9bb9c-65.html#unique-entry-id-65</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/429abff830735b31f33d4ea2c9f9bb9c-65.html#unique-entry-id-65</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[If you were on one of the teams to submit runs, you should have received a message explaining where you can get score details, statistics, and the qrels.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>CLIN 2005 site launched</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-06-26T18:42:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/9bc88c04ebf914ecfcb508b67978f7fb-63.html#unique-entry-id-63</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/9bc88c04ebf914ecfcb508b67978f7fb-63.html#unique-entry-id-63</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The 16th meeting of computational linguistics in the Netherlands will take place on December 16, 2005, in Amsterdam, organized by Maarten de Rijke, Remko Scha, Khalil Sima'an, and Rob van Son. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>MuSeUM proposal funded</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-06-25T11:10:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/c1169eb05142562cdee6aa40c2ce9766-58.html#unique-entry-id-58</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/c1169eb05142562cdee6aa40c2ce9766-58.html#unique-entry-id-58</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jaap Kamps and Maarten de Rijke are the applicants of this project, while Vincent de Keijzer represents the main cultural heritage partner in this proposal, the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>WebCLEF deadline</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-06-19T21:20:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/3b11532f07be7428347e4796fef91044-57.html#unique-entry-id-57</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/3b11532f07be7428347e4796fef91044-57.html#unique-entry-id-57</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[In this first year of WebCLEF, participants can submit runs for two "official tasks": mixed monolingual and multilingual. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Animals</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-05-22T21:09:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/d24ef12deb799264c7acf01673f3fa4e-54.html#unique-entry-id-54</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/d24ef12deb799264c7acf01673f3fa4e-54.html#unique-entry-id-54</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="font: 13px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During a visit to the Teylers Museum in Haarlem to check out the exhibition on volcanoes that opened yesterday, we ran into two kinds of animals; look at this page for images.</span>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>FAQs</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-05-19T20:01:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/0927afc303a6bcea025b760160ad13bc-50.html#unique-entry-id-50</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/0927afc303a6bcea025b760160ad13bc-50.html#unique-entry-id-50</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="font: 13px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Frequently asked questions (FAQ) pages are a rich source of semi-structured information that seems ideally suited both for focused retrieval experiments and for pushing the boundaries of today's question answering (QA) research: while today's QA research is strongly focused on factoids, question/answer pairs in FAQs cover far richer questions (plus answers). ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Foundations and Trends&#xae; in Information Retrieval</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-05-18T12:54:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/6a7ba9b196fe7cf7938026cd39787bb4-44.html#unique-entry-id-44</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/6a7ba9b196fe7cf7938026cd39787bb4-44.html#unique-entry-id-44</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="font: 13px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Starting its publishing program in 2006, Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval will publish high-quality survey and tutorial monographs of the field using modern techniques to enable both instant linking to the primary research in its electronic form and affordable paper copies, finally delivering on the promise to authors of multiple channel publishing from a single source. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Ikiru</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-05-16T07:58:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/665fd17c98c97a40b6239c7f9f02d702-31.html#unique-entry-id-31</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/665fd17c98c97a40b6239c7f9f02d702-31.html#unique-entry-id-31</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[This must be one of the most moving films ever; most notable are the scene with Watanabe feeling spiritually "empty" after having drank and danced all night, and the scene after his funeral &#8212; which we see in flashback &#8212; with his friends recalling Watanabe's last moments.</span>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>iPod Meets Washing Machine</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-05-14T18:00:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/2ac9538adca238e5843ee7b05bfc8728-29.html#unique-entry-id-29</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/2ac9538adca238e5843ee7b05bfc8728-29.html#unique-entry-id-29</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Find out more at <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/Teenagers-iPod-goes-boom/2005/05/13/1115843351825.html?]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>PhD position in Web IR</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-03-22T22:17:00+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/2edb9b337baca0bea62d0540f4d94239-25.html#unique-entry-id-25</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/2edb9b337baca0bea62d0540f4d94239-25.html#unique-entry-id-25</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Admin and application details are available at <a href="http://www.english.uva.nl/actueel/object.cfm/objectID=8F04BE3E-B22B-4FCC-BE96B7C7C4EBF4E7">this page</a>; the deadline for applications has passed.
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]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Entering exact science in The Netherlands</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-04-24T21:38:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/9b243c5ffc8f0de9a0af50aa236aff42-22.html#unique-entry-id-22</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/9b243c5ffc8f0de9a0af50aa236aff42-22.html#unique-entry-id-22</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[While the lack of young people entering the exact sciences and engineering is not just a Dutch problem (e.g., "<a href="http://www.strategies.org/IGESPresentations/ISUPaper_2002.html">NASA's under-30 population [is] one-third the size of its over-60 population</a>"), in the Netherlands there is a disturbing drop in the number of young people opting for a career in those two fields. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Availability next week</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-05-05T20:54:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/e737dc6eb0fdcb9b37fb34af39980a63-13.html#unique-entry-id-13</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/e737dc6eb0fdcb9b37fb34af39980a63-13.html#unique-entry-id-13</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[You may be able to spot me on iChat during office hours (Japanese standard time).
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]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Availability this week </title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-04-25T20:47:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/38ca6b78e8718225b0d0ea7999e189e5-9.html#unique-entry-id-9</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/38ca6b78e8718225b0d0ea7999e189e5-9.html#unique-entry-id-9</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Listening to ''Dakota'', by Stereophonics (Play Count: 8)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>PodBrix</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-04-02T17:59:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/3b703ca584b1dfec2e0e20b3562c1979-0.html#unique-entry-id-0</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/3b703ca584b1dfec2e0e20b3562c1979-0.html#unique-entry-id-0</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Where toys meet: modified minifigs, produced in a limited edition run (300 units), inspired by, well, have a look at PodBrix
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Eight vacancies in Information Retrieval and Language Technology</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-03-31T23:45:19+02:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/70563347c0eadfae9fafe000f6dd3d09-129.html#unique-entry-id-129</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/70563347c0eadfae9fafe000f6dd3d09-129.html#unique-entry-id-129</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<li><b>Research programmer</b>, you will work with language technology, relational databases, web services and text mining technology to support the development of the next generation of the Dutch WordNet; 1 yr; part time; funded through the NWO/STEVIN program; see this <a href="http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/Research/Projects/Cornetto/">separate site</a>.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Geduld (1)</title><dc:creator>derijke@uva.nl</dc:creator><dc:subject>Home</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-02-24T14:50:19+01:00</dc:date><link>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/5807507adebdfd125ab7ae01ff58c3d9-166.html#unique-entry-id-166</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mdr/files/5807507adebdfd125ab7ae01ff58c3d9-166.html#unique-entry-id-166</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Om het overzicht te houden (en te delen met belanghebbenden) is hier een lijstje van klussen die bij het UvA Call Center IC (en voorheen de FNWI ICT-ondersteuning) zijn gedeponeerd en die nog op afronding wachten. 
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