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“Improving automated segmentation of radio shows with audio embeddings”
Update (28/1/2020): Oberon’s thesis was accepted and will be published at the IEEE 45th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2020), to be held May 4-8 in Barcelona, Spain! The submission is co-authored with Klaus Lux and myself. Oberon Berlage recently successfully defended his MSc. thesis (title above!) for the Data Science…
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Dutch Interactive Awards (2x) for BNR SMART Radio!
Yesterday BNR SMART Radio won two Dutch Interactive Awards (DIA 2019) Awards! We were nominated together with Elastique, the folks who designed the UX/interface of our BNR SMART Radio app which you can download here (or in your app stores, both Android/iOS)! 🥇 Content We won Gold in the category “Content”. Why, you may ask?…
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Featured on the European Science-Media Hub
In the context of the upcoming workshop “AI and Journalism” Bennie Mols interviewed me for the website of the European Science-Media Hub, on how we apply AI in journalism for Het FD and BNR. Read the piece here: AI could boost journalism with smart tools Or read the more in-depth background interview here: A scientist’s…
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We won the AMMA Media-innovation award for our News Personalization projects at FD Mediagroep!
After winning the Marconi award for radio innovation, yesterday we picked up the AMMA Award for Media Innovation for our news personalization efforts at FD Mediagroep (both SMART Journalism for Het FD and SMART Radio for BNR Nieuwsradio)! It’s really great to see that our current investment into AI and innovation seems to resonate with…
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Don’t blame the algorithm
In response to my op-ed in Het Parool, Jim Stolze interviewed me and published the interview on the website of De Nationale AI Cursus (a free online course/MOOC on AI aimed at the general public); Read the article below: Geef niet het algoritme de schuld
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Reading News with a Purpose: Explaining User Profiles for Self-Actualization
Really excited to have co-authored “Reading News with a Purpose,” which was accepted at the International Workshop on Transparent Personalization Methods based on Heterogeneous Personal Data (ExHUM), at UMAP 2019! With the largest list of authors (ranging from philosophers via polcomm researchers to computer scientists), from a wide array of institutions; Emily Sullivan, Dimitrios Bountouridis,…
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Een lijstje zoekresultaten is geen etalage
I wrote a response on recent coverage around the alleged ‘promotion’ of anti-vax books by bol.com, suggesting it is due to “influential, steering, algorithms.” In this piece I state it’s not an issue of algorithms, but of long-tail, obscure, content. My response was published in Het Parool, as an edited letter. Read the original, unedited…
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Featured in De Volkskrant on SMART Journalism
De Volksrant wrote published an article on Dutch robo-journalism, where I’m featured on explaining our SMART Journalism recommender system + abstractive summarization plans. Read the article by clicking on the image below: And read more about our SMART Journalism project in our position paper:
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Co-organizing DIR 2019!
Together with Anne Schuth and Daan Odijk I’ll be co-organizing The Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval workshop (DIR 2019). At DIR 2018, we sat down during lunch and came up with the following plan: #DIR2019 will try something new. Top ranked IR papers from WWW, WSDM, CIKM, NeurIPS, RecSys, CHI, CHIIR, KDD, ECIR, ACL, EMNLP (in no…
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BNR SMART Radio wins the Marconi Online Award!
Really happy and proud of our amazing AI team for winning the (first) Marconi Online Award at the Gouden RadioRing Gala, for BNR SMART Radio! SMART Radio is the first product that comes out of our FD Mediagroup AI team! SMART Radio is released in beta for iOS (anytime) and Android, give it a try…
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Textpipe logo
I created another logo! It is the textpipe logo, for textpipe; a Python package for converting raw text in to clean, readable text and extracting metadata from that text. textpipe’s readme A package we’re developing together with our friends at De Persgroep and RTL Nederland :-).
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Featured in BNR’s “Artificial Intelligence Podcast” on AI in Media Part I: Tech
In the latest AI Podcast, I am featured, talking with Li’ao Wang on our SMART Radio and SMART Journalism projects. Stream the episode below! “Media is smart, but needs to get smarter. That’s what we’re working on here at the FD Mediagroep. Come and see what we do with AI to make our creators and…
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Demo Paper: “SMART Radio: Personalized News Radio”
We’re demo’ing SMART Radio at The 17th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval workshop (DIR 2018). We wrote a short paper titled “SMART Radio: Personalized News Radio” to accompany the demo, read it by clicking below!
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Position paper ““Let Me Tell You Who You are” — Explaining Recommender Systems by Opening Black Box User Profiles”
Our position paper ““Let Me Tell You Who You are” — Explaining Recommender Systems by Opening Black Box User Profiles” was accepted at the 2nd FATREC Workshop on Responsible Recommendation, held at RecSys ’18! In this paper, we detail some our ideas and approaches of providing transparency in recommendations through displaying the user profiles, used ‘internally’ by…
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Interviewed in “IP – vakblad voor informatieprofessionals”
In the magazine IP (“journal for information professionals”) I am interviewed as one of three young professionals who show that ‘traditional categories and conceptual frames need to be readjusted.’ More specifically, it describes how my multi-disciplinary background, with an academic background in media studies, professional experience in the media, with a PhD in computer science, is important…