Candy Reebroek graduates on engagement behavior in online brand communities

Understanding engagement behavior in online brand communities : how social identity relates to frequency of interaction and tweet sentiment. by Candy Reebroek This study explains engagement behavior in online brand communities based on data of Twitter users who present different types of social identities. For this, we examined fifteen online brand communities that are popular … Continue reading “Candy Reebroek graduates on engagement behavior in online brand communities”

Semere Bitew graduates Cum Laude on Logical Structure Extraction of Electronic Documents

Logical Structure Extraction of Electronic Documents Using Contextual Information by Semere Bitew Logical document structure extraction refers to the process of coupling the semantic meanings (logical labels) such as title, authors, affiliation, etc., to physical sections in a document. For example, in scientific papers the first paragraph is usually a title. Logical document structure extraction … Continue reading “Semere Bitew graduates Cum Laude on Logical Structure Extraction of Electronic Documents”

Jordy Michorius graduates on Fair Machine Learning

by Jordy Michorius. In this research an approach for bias reduction, while still maintaining usability of the classifier, is proposed. The approach for bias reduction requires all preprocessing to be done, include one-hot encoding and making the training and test set split. The approach then requires a banned feature, a feature that has for example … Continue reading “Jordy Michorius graduates on Fair Machine Learning”

Johannes Wassenaar graduates on automatic video hyperlinking

by Johannes Wassenaar Linking segments of video using text-based methods and a flexible form of segmentation In order to let user’s explore, and use large archives, video hyperlinking tries to aid the user in linking segments of video to other segments of videos, similar to the way hyperlinks on the web are used – instead … Continue reading “Johannes Wassenaar graduates on automatic video hyperlinking”

Elnaz Pazhouhi graduates on Product Name Recognition

Automatic Product Name Recognition from Short Product Descriptions by Elnaz Pazhouhi This thesis studies the problem of product name recognition from short product descriptions. This is an important problem especially with the increasing use of ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software at the core of modern business management systems, where the information of business transactions is … Continue reading “Elnaz Pazhouhi graduates on Product Name Recognition”

Christel Geurts graduates on Cross-Domain Authorship Attribution

Cross-Domain Authorship Attribution as a Tool for Digital Investigations by Christel Geurts On the darkweb sites promoting illegal content are abundant and new sites are constantly created. At the same time Law Enforcement is working hard to take these sites down and track down the persons involved. Often, after taking down a site, users change … Continue reading “Christel Geurts graduates on Cross-Domain Authorship Attribution”

Alexandru Serban graduates on Personalized Ranking in Academic Search

Context Based Personalized Ranking in Academic Search by Alexandru Serban A criticism of search engines is that queries return the same results for users who send exactly the same query, with distinct information needs. Personalized search is considered a solution as search results are re-evaluated based on user preferences or activity. Instead of relying on … Continue reading “Alexandru Serban graduates on Personalized Ranking in Academic Search”

Bas Niesink graduates on biomedical information retrieval

Improving biomedical information retrieval with pseudo and explicit relevance feedback by Bas Niesink The HERO project aims to increase the quality of supervised exercise during cancer treatment by making use of a clinical decision support system. In this research, concept-based information retrieval techniques to find relevant medical publications for such a system were developed and … Continue reading “Bas Niesink graduates on biomedical information retrieval”

Slavica Zivanovic graduates on capturing and mapping QOL using Twitter data

by Slavica Zivanovic There is an ongoing discussion about the applicability of social media data in scientific research. Moreover, little is known about the feasibility to use these data to capture the Quality of Life (QoL). This study explores the use of social media in QoL research by capturing and analysing people’s perceptions about their … Continue reading “Slavica Zivanovic graduates on capturing and mapping QOL using Twitter data”

Wim van der Zijden graduates on Multi-Tenant Customizable Databases

by Wim van der Zijden A good practice in business is to focus on key activities. For some companies this may be branding, while other businesses may focus on areas such as consultancy, production or distribution. Focusing on key activities means to outsource as much other activities as possible. These other activities merely distract from … Continue reading “Wim van der Zijden graduates on Multi-Tenant Customizable Databases”