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
Lynda Hardman appointed Professor of Multimedia Discourse Interaction
Lynda Hardman has been appointed professor of Multimedia Discourse Interaction at Utrecht University. It is a parttime appointment that Hardman will combine with her position as researcher in the Information Access group and Management Team member at CWI, and President of the Board of Informatics Europe.
Arjen P. de Vries appointed Professor of Information Retrieval at Radboud University
Arjen P. de Vries is appointed full-time Professor of Information Retrieval at Radboud University Faculty of Science per 1 November 2015. He is currently group leader of the Information Access group at CWI. He will be succeeded as group leader by Jacco van Ossenbruggen.
Lynda Hardman President Informatics Europe
Today, Lynda Hardman, member of the management team at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, has been elected President of the Board of Informatics Europe, the European association of computer science departments and research laboratories.
Lodlam Open Data Prize for Polimedia
Researchers from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), VU University (VU), Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vison have been awarded the Lodlam Open Data Prize for the Polimedia research project.
Members
Associated Members
Publications
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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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Samar, T, Traub, M.C, van Ossenbruggen, J.R, Hardman, L, & de Vries, A.P. (2017). Quantifying retrieval bias in Web archive search. International Journal on Digital Libraries. doi:10.1007/s00799-017-0215-9
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Piscopo, A, Siebes, R, & Hardman, L. (2017). Predicting Sense of Community and Participation by Applying Machine Learning to Open Government Data. Policy and Internet, 9(1), 55–74.
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He, J, & Yilmaz, E. (2017). User behaviour and task characteristics: A field study of daily information behaviour. In CHIIR 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 Conference Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (pp. 67–76). doi:10.1145/3020165.3020188
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Melgar Estrada, L, Hildebrand, M, de Boer, V, & van Ossenbruggen, J.R. (2017). Time-based tags for fiction movies: comparing experts to novices using a video labeling game. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology , 68(2), 348–364. doi:10.1002/asi.23656
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van Aggelen, A.E, Hollink, L, (Max) Kemman, M, (Martijn) Kleppe, M, & Beunders, H. (Henri). (2017). The debates of the European Parliament as Linked Open Data. Semantic Web – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability, 8(2), 271–281. doi:10.3233/SW-160227
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He, J, Qvarfordt, P, Halvey, M, & Golovchinsky, G. (2016). Beyond actions: exploring the discovery of tactics from user logs. Information Processing and Management, 52(6), 1200–1226. doi:10.1016/j.ipm.2016.05.007
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Boom, B.J, Beauxis-Aussalet, E.M.A.L, Hardman, L, & Fisher, R.B. (2016). Uncertainty‑aware estimation of population abundance using machine learning. Multimedia Systems, 22, 737–749. doi:10.1007/s00530-015-0479-0
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People of ACM - Meet Lynda Hardman - ACM - 23-08-2016. (2016). People of ACM - Meet Lynda Hardman - ACM - 23-08-2016.
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.
Current projects with external funding
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Automated Knowledge Graph Creation from Scientific Literature
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Behavior-aware Search Evaluation for Information Retrieval
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News Genres: Advancing Media History by Transparent Automatic Genre Classification (NEWSGAC)
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A Europe-wide Interoperable Virtual Research Environment to Empower Multidisciplinary Research Communities and Accelerate Innovation and Collaboration (VRE4EIC)
Related partners
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Elsevier
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Stichting Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid
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ERCIM
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Koninklijke Bibliotheek
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Rijksuniversiteit Groningen