OpenGov Thesis Projects 2026
It is that time of the year again, where I’m recruiting up to 6 MSc students who are looking to graduate in AI, Data Science, Computer Science, and…
Research
Posts about my research: papers, workshops and projects on AI for open government, recommender systems, and information access.
Two papers accepted at JURIX2026
After my joyful experience of attending ICAIL 2026 last summer, and my increased interest in the academic AI & Law community, I am very happy to have two…
Two papers accepted at AIOG 2026
Two papers I co-authored have been accepted at the AI & Open Government Workshop (AIOG 2026), co-located with ICAIL 2026 in Singapore on June 8. Both come out…
Paper accepted at ICAIL 2026: LLMs for Generating Decision Models from Legal Text
🎉 Full paper accepted at the 21st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2026): “From Legal Text to Executable Decision Models: Evaluating Structured Representations for Legal…
Call for Papers: AI & Open Government Workshop at ICAIL 2026
We’re excited to announce the AI & Open Government Workshop (AIOG), co-located with ICAIL 2026 in Singapore on June 8, 2026. The call for papers is now open!…
WooPush: technology of the attention economy, for informed citizenship
TikTok knows what you want to see. Why doesn’t the government know what you need to know? Yesterday I gave a keynote at the Dutch Ministry of the…
LLMs for Axial Coding ECIR 2026 preprint available
Social scientists have been manually coding (labeling text segments to capture their essence, and clustering these labels into groups) large textual corpora for decades. Time that could have…
AI & Open Government Workshop at ICAIL 2026
Great news: our workshop proposal has been accepted at ICAIL 2026 in Singapore (June 8-12)! Together with Graham McDonald (University of Glasgow) and Jason R. Baron (University of…
LLMs for Axial Coding paper accepted at ECIR2026!
Super happy with the acceptance of our ECIR 2026 Findings paper: “From Quotes to Concepts: Axial Coding of Political Debates with Ensemble LMs“ In this work we apply…
OpenGov Team in “Terminal Woo” hackathon
Together with my PhD students Damiaan Reijnaers and Maik Larooij and Jos Zuijderwijk, our muscle-for-hire from Utrecht University, the OpenGov team participated in the Terminal Woo hackathon. This…
opengov.nl is live
We have published our ICAI OpenGov Lab website at opengov.nl! It is a bit bare at the moment, containing some information on our team, projects, and some news…
Maik Larooij joins the ICAI OpenGov Lab
We’re very happy to welcome Maik Larooij to the ICAI OpenGov Lab! This week he started as the lab’s fourth dual PhD student, combining his role as consultant…
AI & Data Science MSc thesis projects at the ICAI OpenGov Lab
As each year, I am looking for talented and driven master students to work on a variety of projects out of the ICAI OpenGov Lab. See the one-sentence…
ECIR 2026 Publicity Co-chair
I am (yet again) a publicity (co-)chair (alongside Yifei Yuan) for the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR). I did the same for ECIR 2014! What changed…
Woorkshop 2025
Gisteren hielden we de derde jaarlijkse Woorkshop (mijn eerste!) op de UvA, waar dit jaar 8 studenten (en 1 Master of Science 😉) hun afstudeerscriptie presenteerden die over…