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DIVE+ in Europeana Insight

September 22nd, 2017

This months’ edition of Europeana Insight features articles from this year’s LODLAM Challenge finalists, which include the winner: DIVE+. The online article “DIVE+: EXPLORING INTEGRATED LINKED MEDIA” discusses the DIVE+ User studies, data enrichment, exploratory [Read More...]
SEMANTiCS2017

September 14th, 2017

This year, I was conference chair of the SEMANTiCS conference, which was held 11-14 Sept in Amsterdam. The conference was in my view a great success, with over 310 visitors across the four days, 24 [Read More...]
Event Extraction From Radio News Bulletins For Linked Data

September 12th, 2017

[This post is based on the BSc. Thesis of Kim van Putten (Computer Science, VU Amsterdam)] As part of the Bachelor’s degree Computer Science at the VU Amsterdam, Kim van Putten conducted her bachelor thesis in [Read More...]
Discovering the underlying structure of controversial issues with topic modeling

September 6th, 2017

[This post is by Tibor Vermeij about his Master project] For the Master project of the Information Sciences programme at the Vrije Universiteit, Tibor Vermeij investigated a solution to discover the structure of controversial issues on [Read More...]
Share, repeat and verify Scientific Experiments with Software Containers

September 6th, 2017

[This post is by Rogier Mars about his Master project] During my years at the VU as a student Information Sciences, I was often requested to form a project group and work on some kind of [Read More...]
“New life for old media” to be presented at NEM Summit 2017

August 30th, 2017

The extended abstract “Investigations into Speech Synthesis and Deep Learning-based colorization for audiovisual archives” has been accepted for publication at the NEM (New Eureopean Media) Summit 2017 to be held in Madrid end-of-November. This paper [Read More...]
Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School 2017 – Trip Report

August 14th, 2017

In the second half of July (20th of July – 27th of July) I attended the Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School (LxMLS2017). As every year, the summer school is held in Lisbon, Portugal, at Instituto [Read More...]
Trip Report: Dagstuhl Seminar on Citizen Science

August 2nd, 2017

A month ago, I had the opportunity to attend the Dagstuhl Seminar  Citizen Science: Design and Engagement. Dagstuhl is really a wonderful place. This was my fifth time there. You can get an impression of [Read More...]
Identifying emotions in email with human-level accuracy

July 26th, 2017

As part of the Master’s degree Business Analytics at the VU Amsterdam, Erwin Huijzer completed his master thesis at Anchormen: “Identifying effective affective email responses; Predicting customer affect after email conversation” When customers contact a company with [Read More...]
A Concentric-based Approach to Represent Topics in Tweets and News

July 25th, 2017

[This post is based on the BSc. Thesis of Enya Nieland and the BSc. Thesis of Quinten van Langen (Information Science Track)] The Web is a rich source of information that presents events, facts and their [Read More...]