Mark Kazemier graduates on social networks for primary education teachers

Integrating a social network into an administration system for primary education by Mark Kazemier Research of the Dutch educational inspectorate shows that there are still many problems within Dutch primary education (Inspectie van het onderwijs, 2010). Topicus creates a pupil administration system ParnasSys that tries to solve these problems for the primary education. Two of … Continue reading “Mark Kazemier graduates on social networks for primary education teachers”

Joost Wolfswinkel graduates on enriching ontologies

Semi-Automatically Enriching Ontologies: A Case Study in the e-Recruiting Domain by Joost Wolfswinkel The thesis is inspired by a practical problem that was identified by Epiqo. Epiqo is an Austrian company that wants to expand to other countries within Europe and to other domains within Austria with their e-Recruiter system. For the e-Recruiter system to … Continue reading “Joost Wolfswinkel graduates on enriching ontologies”

Emiel Mols graduates on sharding Spotify search

Today, Emiel Mols graduated when presenting the master thesis project he did at Spotify in Stockholm, Sweden. Emiel got quite some attention last year when he launched SpotifyOnTheWeb, leaving Spotify “no choice but to hire him”. In the master thesis, Emiel describes a prototype implementation of a term sharded full text search architecture. The system's … Continue reading “Emiel Mols graduates on sharding Spotify search”

Eelco Eerenberg graduates on economic models for distributed search

Towards Distributed Information Retrieval based on Economic Models by Eelco Eerenberg The aim of this research is to build a successful distributed information retrieval system based on an economic model, allowing servers to open up their part of the deep web. This research consists of three parts: 1) selecting suitable economic models, 2) simulating these … Continue reading “Eelco Eerenberg graduates on economic models for distributed search”

Bertold van Voorst graduates on collection selection using database clustering

Cluster-based collection selection in uncooperative distributed information retrieval by Bertold van Voorst The focus of this research is collection selection for distributed information retrieval. The collection descriptions that are necessary for selecting the most relevant collections are often created from information gathered by random sampling. Collection selection based on an incomplete index constructed by using … Continue reading “Bertold van Voorst graduates on collection selection using database clustering”

Erwin de Moel graduates on managing recorded lectures for Collegerama

Expanding the usability of recorded lectures: A new age in teaching and classroom instruction by Erwin de Moel The status of recorded lectures at Delft University of Technology has been studied in order to expand its usability in their present and future educational environment. Possibilities for the production of single file vodcasts have been tested. … Continue reading “Erwin de Moel graduates on managing recorded lectures for Collegerama”

Remko Nolten graduates on automatic hyperlinking

WikiLink: Anchor Detection and Link Generation in Wiki’s by Remko Nolten In this research we try to automate the process of link generation in Wiki’s by looking at existing link generation techniques and enhancing these with our own ideas. We started the research by analyzing a large document corpus to find out more about the … Continue reading “Remko Nolten graduates on automatic hyperlinking”

Matthijs Ooms graduates on Provenance Management for Bioinformatics

by Matthijs Ooms Scientific Workflow Managements Systems (SWfMSs), such as our own research prototype e-BioFlow, are being used by bioinformaticians to design and run data-intensive experiments, connecting local and remote (Web) services and tools. Preserving data, for later inspection or reuse, determine the quality of results. To validate results is essential for scientific experiments. This … Continue reading “Matthijs Ooms graduates on Provenance Management for Bioinformatics”

Kien Tjin-Kam-Jet graduates on result merging for distributed information retrieval

Centralized Web search has difficulties with crawling and indexing the Visible Web. The Invisible Web is estimated to contain much more content, and this content is even more difficult to crawl. Metasearch, a form of distributed search, is a possible solution. However, a major problem is how to merge the results from several search engines … Continue reading “Kien Tjin-Kam-Jet graduates on result merging for distributed information retrieval”