Wouter Weerkamp   |   Publications

PhD Thesis

Finding People and their Utterances in Social Media
Wouter Weerkamp, October 2011

Journal papers

2012

Credibility-inspired Ranking for Blog Post Retrieval
Information Retrieval Journal
Wouter Weerkamp and Maarten de Rijke

Microblog Language Identification: Overcoming the Limitations of Short, Unedited and Idiomatic Text
Language Resources and Evaluation
Simon Carter, Wouter Weerkamp, and Manos Tsagkias

2011

Blog Feed Search with a Post Index
Information Retrieval Journal, 14(5)
Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, and Maarten de Rijke

2009

An Effective Coherence Measure to Determine Topical Consistency in User Generated Content
International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, 12(3)
Jiyin He, Wouter Weerkamp, Martha Larson and Maarten de Rijke

Conference short papers and posters

2012

Adaptive Temporal Query Modeling
34th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2012)
Maria-Hendrike Peetz, Edgar Meij, Maarten de Rijke, and Wouter Weerkamp

2011

How People use Twitter in Different Languages
Web Science 2011
Wouter Weerkamp, Manos Tsagkias, and Simon Carter
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Twitter hashtags: Joint Translation and Clustering
Web Science 2011
Simon Carter, Manos Tsagkias, and Wouter Weerkamp
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Incorporating Query Expansion and Quality Indicators in Searching Microblog Posts
33rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2011)
Kamran Massoudi, Manos Tsagkias, Maarten de Rijke, and Wouter Weerkamp

2010

A Two-Stage Model for Blog Feed Search
33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2010)
Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, and Maarten de Rijke
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2009

A Query Model Based on Normalized Log-Likelihood
18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2009)
Edgar Meij, Wouter Weerkamp, and Maarten de Rijke
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Predicting the Volume of Comments on Online News Stories
18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2009)
Manos Tsagkias, Wouter Weerkamp, and Maarten de Rijke
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Comparison of Retrieval-Based Hierarchical Clustering Approaches to Person Name Disambiguation
32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2009)
Christof Monz and Wouter Weerkamp
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2008

Bloggers as Experts
31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2008)
Krisztian Balog, Wouter Weerkamp, and Maarten de Rijke
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Parsimonious Relevance Models
31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2008)
Edgar Meij, Wouter Weerkamp Krisztian Balog, and Maarten de Rijke
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Conference papers

2012

Adding Semantics to Microblog Posts
5th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2012)
Edgar Meij, Wouter Weerkamp, and Maarten de Rijke

A Framework for Unsupervised Spam Detection in Social Networking Sites
34th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2012)
Maarten Bosma, Edgar Meij, and Wouter Weerkamp

Result Disambiguation in Web People Search
34th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2012)
Richard Berendsen, Bogomil Kovachev, Evi Nastou, Maarten de Rijke, and Wouter Weerkamp

2011

People Searching for People: Analysis of a People Search Engine Log
34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2011)
Wouter Weerkamp, Richard Berendsen, Bogomil Kovachev, Edgar Meij, Krisztian Balog, and Maarten de Rijke

Hypergeometric Language Models for Republished Article Finding
34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2011)
Manos Tsagkias, Maarten de Rijke, and Wouter Weerkamp

Classifying Queries Submitted to a Vertical Search Engine
Web Science 2011
Richard Berendsen, Bogomil Kovachev, Edgar Meij, Maarten de Rijke, and Wouter Weerkamp

Linking Online News and Social Media
4th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2011)
Manos Tsagkias, Maarten de Rijke, and Wouter Weerkamp

2010

Generating Focused Topic-specific Sentiment Lexicons
48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2010)
Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de Rijke, and Wouter Weerkamp

News Comments: Exploring, Modeling, and Online Predicting
32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2010)
Manos Tsagkias, Wouter Weerkamp, and Maarten de Rijke
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2009

A Generative Blog Post Retrieval Model that Uses Query Expansion based on External Collections
Joint conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2009)
Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog and Maarten de Rijke

Using Contextual Information to Improve Search in Email Archives
31st European Conference on Information Retrieval Conference (ECIR 2009)
Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog and Maarten de Rijke

2008

Finding Key Bloggers, One Post at a Time
18th European Conference on Articificial Intelligence (ECAI 2008)
Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, and Maarten de Rijke

A Few Examples Go A Long Way: Constructing Query Models from Elaborate Query Formulations
31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2008)
Krisztian Balog, Wouter Weerkamp, and Maarten de Rijke

Credibility Improves Topical Blog Post Retrieval
46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: HLT (ACL 2008)
Wouter Weerkamp and Maarten de Rijke

Workshop papers

2011

Semi-Supervised Priors for Microblog Language Identification
Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval workshop (DIR 2011)
Simon Carter, Manos Tsagkias, Wouter Weerkamp
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2010

Mining User Experiences from Online Forums: An Exploration
NAACL HLT 2010 workshop on Computational Linguistics in a World of Social Media (#SocialMedia)
Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de Rijke, Wouter Weerkamp, Paul Ackermans, Gijs Geleijnse

2008

PodCred: A Framework for Assessing Podcast Credibility
Manos Tsagkias, Martha Larson, Wouter Weerkamp, and Maarten de Rijke
CIKM 2008 2nd Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web (WICOW 2008)

Blogger, Stick to your Story: Modeling Topical Noise in Blogs with Coherence
SIGIR 2008 Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data (AND 2008)
Jiyin He, Wouter Weerkamp, Martha Larson, and Maarten de Rijke

Looking at Things Differently: Exploring Perspective Recall for Informal Text Retrieval
Proceedings of the 8th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR 2008)
Wouter Weerkamp and Maarten de Rijke

Web Corpus Cleaning using Content and Structure
Building and Exploring Web Corpora (CleanEval 2007)
Katja Hofmann and Wouter Weerkamp

Organizer

CLEF 2011
DIR 2011

PC member

2012

CIKM papers
CIKM posters
DIR papers
EACL papers
ECIR papers
ECIR posters
SIGIR papers
SIGIR posters
WebSci papers

2011

CIKM papers
DIR papers
SIGIR EOS workshop
SIGIR posters

2010

SIGIR papers
SIGIR posters

2009

SIGIR papers
SIGIR posters

Journal reviewer

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST)

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)