Description
Leader of the group Information Access: Jacco van Ossenbruggen.
Our research group develops methods and techniques to better support users in accessing information that is heterogeneous, subjective and potentially inconsistent. We focus on the information’s context, using knowledge graphs to model differences in time and other relevant perspectives.
We work together with social scientists and humanities researchers to evaluate how technology can be used to best interpret complex data, by modelling and comparing different assumptions underlying the interpretation. We advocate the notion of transparency in all critical use of technology to improve trust assessments.
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News
Readers can increase retrievability of documents in the National Library collection
Crowdsourcing can help decrease the bias of the search engine of the ‘Koninklijke Bibliotheek’, the National Library of the Netherlands. CWI researchers will present that finding at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in Texas, which takes place on 4 June 2018.
Female members of European Parliament more likely to be featured on Wikipedia
Researchers from CWI have found that female members of the European Parliament are slightly more likely to be featured on multiple Wikipedia language editions than their male counterparts. However, the variations between language editions are large: while 10 editions over-represent women, 13 editions over-represent men.
ADS & Insight PhD position at CWI
Amsterdam Data Science, in which CWI participates as a partner, recently announced that 3 PhD projects will shortly commence, fully funded by Science Foundation Ireland (an award of around 0.5M€).
Hardman new chair Amsterdam Data Science, Boncz joins Supervisory Board
As of January 2018, CWI researcher Lynda Hardman is the new chair of the management team of Amsterdam Data Science. Peter Boncz, CWI researcher and part of the CWI management team, will join the ADS Supervisory Board.
Members
Associated Members
Publications
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Beauxis-Aussalet, E.M.A.L, van Doorn, J, & Hardman, L. (2018). Supporting End-User Understanding of Classification Errors. doi:10.1145/3232078.3232096
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Hollink, L, van Aggelen, A.E, & van Ossenbruggen, J.R. (2018). Using the web of data to study gender differences in online knowledge sources: The case of the European parliament. doi:10.1145/3201064.3201108
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Het web is stuk - de Ingenieur - 30-04-18. (2018). Het web is stuk - de Ingenieur - 30-04-18.
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Lynda Hardman voorzitter Amsterdam Data Science - BI-Platform.nl - 14-03-18. (2018). Lynda Hardman voorzitter Amsterdam Data Science - BI-Platform.nl - 14-03-18.
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Samar, T, Traub, M.C, van Ossenbruggen, J.R, Hardman, L, & de Vries, A.P. (2018). Quantifying retrieval bias in Web archive search. International Journal on Digital Libraries, 19(1), 57–75. doi:10.1007/s00799-017-0215-9
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Laat zien wat je met techniek allemaal kunt - NRC Handelsblad - 18-01-18. (2018). Laat zien wat je met techniek allemaal kunt - NRC Handelsblad - 18-01-18.
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Beter techniekonderwijs kan helpen om vrouwen te enthousiasmeren - Techniektalent.nu - 18-01-18. (2018). Beter techniekonderwijs kan helpen om vrouwen te enthousiasmeren - Techniektalent.nu - 18-01-18.
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Bogaard, T, Wielemaker, J, Hollink, L, & van Ossenbruggen, J.R. (2017). SWISH DataLab: A Web Interface for Data Exploration and Analysis. In BNAIC 2016: Artificial Intelligence.
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Eickhoff, C, Gwizdka, J, Hauff, C, & He, J. (2017). Introduction to the special issue on search as learning. Information Retrieval Journal, 20(5), 399–402. doi:10.1007/s10791-017-9315-9
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Boots-Blankers, H.M. (2017, July 21). Is Seeing Believing? Identifying Aspects of Informative Videos that Indicate Objectivity. Universiteit van Amsterdam.
Software
Amalgame: Managing alignments in large vocabularies
Amalgame, short for AMsterdam ALignment GenerAtion MEtatool, is a Semantic Web tool for finding, evaluating and managing vocabulary alignments, i.e. relating corresponding concepts in different vocabularies.