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
Proposal 'Inside the filter Bubble' granted
Recently, the project proposal "Inside the filter bubble" was granted in the JEDS call for cross-sectoral scientific challenges by NWO and the eScience Centre. In this project, Laura Hollink (CWI) collaborates with communication scientists at VU and UvA and Computational Linguists at VU to determine the existence and impact of filter bubbles in mobile news consumption.
NEWSGAC project kicked off
The NEWSGAC project, acquired by Laura Hollink and Jacco van Ossenbruggen, has kicked off last week week. Researchers of this project aim to open the 'black box' of machine learning in this joint project with the eScience Centre, the University of Groningen, the National Library of the Netherlands and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.
First CWI thesis on web archiving
Thaer Samar successfully defended his PhD thesis "Access to and Retrievability of Content in Web Archives" on 30 October 2017
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.
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.