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Digital forensics in the real world: the Ennetcom data
In the context of a high-profile legal case (involving a bunch of data acquired from encrypted “Ennetcom” phones) I assisted lawyer Inez Weski in acquiring insights and trying to understand how digital forensic tools were used in the collection of digital evidence. I did this work in the context of my PhD research on semantic search for…
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Interviewed in RTL XL’s “How it’s done” on data science for news analysis.
In RTL XL’s “How it’s done” me and Company.info’s CTO Henk Pijper explain why and how we apply AI and data science at Company.info to gain insights from online news.
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In NRC on the state of robo-journalism in The Netherlands
Article on ‘robo-journalism’ in NRC Handelsblad, titled “Waar blijft de Nederlandse robotjournalist?” where I briefly mention our SMART Journalism project.
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Pre-print of position paper “SMART Journalism: Personalizing, Summarizing, and Recommending Financial Economic News”
Our position paper “SMART Journalism: Personalizing, Summarizing, and Recommending Financial Economic News” was accepted at Algorithmic Personalization and News (APEN18) workshop, held at ICWSM ’18! In this paper, we detail some of the ideas and opportunities of personalization in the domain of financial economic news. Read the pre-print below! M. Sappelli, D. M. Chu, B. Cambel, J.…
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Featured in article on ‘robo-journalism’ in the Netherlands
Stimuleringsfonds voor de Journalistiek published an article on ‘robo-journalism’, where I say something about the SMART Journalism project we are doing at FDMG, which involves personalization and summarization of newspaper articles. Read it here! (pdf). Snippet: Door introteksten te personaliseren, kun je meer doelgroepen bedienen.’ Bij het genereren van gepersonaliseerde intro’s op basis van artikelen,…
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The Filter Bubble doesn’t exist!
Yesterday I gave a (tongue-in-cheek) talk on algorithmic personalization at the VOGIN-IP Lezing 2018, and brought five pieces of evidence to prove the “filter bubble” doesn’t exist. Check out my slides (in Dutch) by clicking on the picture below!
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“The birth of collective memories” published in JASIST!
The journal paper “The birth of collective memories: Analyzing emerging entities in text streams” I wrote with Daan Odijk and Maarten de Rijke is now (finally) published at JASIST! It is published under OpenAccess/CC BY 4.0 and available in “early view” (published before it’s published) in the Wiley Online Library. Click on the image below…
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Predictive insights from company information (blog post for company.info)
For Company.info I wrote a short blog post explaining the current state-of-the-art, our current, and future projects that involve machine learning and company information. Read the post below! (in Dutch). Voorspellende inzichten uit bedrijfsinformatie Machine learning stelt ons in staat om geautomatiseerd en op grote schaal voorspellende inzichten uit de grote verzameling data uit bijvoorbeeld…
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The Birth of Collective Memories: Analyzing Emerging Entities in Text Streams
Our paper “The Birth of Collective Memories: Analyzing Emerging Entities in Text Streams” was accepted for publication at JASIST (the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology)! Grab a pre-print here: D. Graus, D. Odijk, and M. de Rijke, “The birth of collective memories: analyzing emerging entities in text streams,” Journal of the…
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Financial News Mining Talk @ PyData Hilversum edition
Here are the slides of a talk I gave at the Data Science Northeast Netherlands Meetup and PyData, where I detail the custom in-house entity linking framework, sentiment analysis, and entity salience scoring model we developed for Company.info (part of FD Mediagroep), in addition to showing some example applications of our corpus of news articles linked…
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In “Denktank” on algorithms, behavioral analysis, and personalization
My debut on national TV ;-)! Denktank is a TV show where youngsters explore and think about how (current day) technology will affect them in the future. In this episode I explain some of the mechanisms behind algorithmic personalization. Stream the episode at NPO.nl (the part with me starts at about 05:00), or see the website…
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Hosted 8th Recsys Amsterdam Meetup
Thursday 19 October, I had the pleasure of hosting the 8th Recommender Systems Amsterdam meetup at FDMG/Company.info. The meetup’s theme was media-content recsys, and we had three talks from industry, dealing with recommending tv programs, music videos, and text articles); Ghida Ibrahim (Senior Data Scientist, (formerly at) Liberty Global): “Recommender systems for video and TV products” Bouke…
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Featured in FD on the value of (personal) data
In today’s edition of Het Financieele Dagblad, I am quoted in an article on the value of (personal) data titled “Wanneer je gegevens geld waard zijn”; De kennis die met die cookies wordt verzameld, wordt vervolgens verkocht aan nog eens tientallen bedrijven die daarmee hun reclameboodschappen gericht kunnen afvuren. ‘Waar je ook komt op het…
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Mini-college ‘Hoe algoritmen ons leven vormgeven’
Voor de debatavond De Macht van Data gaf ik een korte inleiding over algoritmen. Wat is een algoritme? Hoe werkt een algoritme? En waar komen we algoritmen tegen?
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I am a doctor!
And it was a beautiful day. Thanks to everyone who attended my defense, to Daan for this (+ more) great picture, my paranymphs Rutger and Marijn for nymphing like a boss, and my committee for grilling but not burning me. Band pic: