Research
Medewerkers van Eeble zijn bertrokken geweest bij diverse onderzoeksprojecten. De bijbehorende publicaties zijn hier te vinden:
Identifying Facets in Query-Biased Sets of Blog Posts
Wouter de Winter, Maarten de Rijke - ICWSM 2007
We investigate the identification of facets of query-biased sets of blog posts. Given a set of blog posts relevant to a topic, we compare several methods for identifying facets of the topic in this set. Building on a clustering of a set of blog posts, we compare several cluster labeling methods, and find that a method that makes use of blog and blog search specific features outperforms other methods. We also present efficiencyimproving feature sets for clustering; our proposed method is fast enough to be deployed online.
Electoral search using the VerkiezingsKijker: an experience report
Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten Marx, Maarten de Rijke, Frank van Waveren - WWW 2007
The Netherlands had parliamentary elections on November 22, 2006. We built a system which helped voters to make an informed choice among the many participating parties. One of the most important pieces of information in the Dutch election and subsequent coalition government formation is the party program, a text document with an average length of 45 pages. Our system provides the voter with focused access to party programs, enabling her to make a topic-wise comparison of parties' viewpoints. We complemented this type of access ("What do the parties promise?") with access to news ("What happens around these topics?") and blogs ("What do people say about them?"). We describe the system, including design technical details, and user statistics.