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CrowdFlower article on CrowdTruth and IBM Watson
Seth Teicher of the crowdsourcing platform CrowdFlower has published a blog post about the CrowdTruth project. He summarizes what the implications of the research project are and what’s next for data...
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A sound corpus with perceptual representations
On Monday 31st of August I presented the preliminary results of my work on sound representations during the weekly Artificial Intelligence meeting at the VU University Amsterdam. In this collaboration...
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Amsterdam Data Science: Coffee and Data
On Friday 11th of September I pitched the medical relation extraction work of my CrowdTruth colleague Anca Dumitrache at the third Amsterdam Data Science: Coffee and Data event. The purpose of this was...
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Awards at IBM Extreme Blue Expo
Our research group received several awards at the IBM Extreme Blue Expo 2015. In this event, an array of speakers from IBM, Academia and the startup community presented their latest findings. The...
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Netherlands eScience Symposium
On Thursday 9th of October was the Netherlands eScience symposium in the Amsterdam Arena. This yearly event attracts scientists and researchers from many different disciplines. In the digital...
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IBM Watson Innovation course
Want to learn about IBM Watson and cognitive computing? Sign up for the Watson Innovation course! The Watson Innovation course is a unique collaboration between the Vrije Universiteit and IBM, in which...
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Cognitive Computing and Watson lecture
Today Lora Aroyo presented the first lecture of the Watson Innovation course at the Vrije Universiteit. The topic of the lecture was Cognitive Computing, IBM Watson and looking inside the mind of...
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Lecture on Human Computing
As part of the Watson Innovation course at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, I presented a lecture on crowdsourcing ground truth data through human computation. In the lecture I explained the need of...
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Watson Innovation Course Presentations
Today the students of the first Watson Innovation course by the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and IBM Netherlands presented their group work at the VU Intertain Lab. Representatives from Amsterdam...
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Watson Innovation Course Closing Event
On Friday 22 January Gerard Smit (CTO for IBM Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg) and Prof. Hubertus Irth (Vice Dean and Research Director of the Vrije Universiteit Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences and...
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Scientific poster design
Recently the CrowdTruth team got a paper accepted at ICT Open 2016. As part of this upcoming conference, I visited a masterclass on scientific poster design at NWO. The class was given by two...
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CrowdTruth 2.0 released
Today we released version 2.0 of the CrowdTruth framework. In the update the data model of the platform is changed, so that data and crowdsourcing results can be managed and reused more easily. This...
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Guide to the network society
Today I visited the Guide to the network society conference at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. I attended a session on the digitization of cities, in which it became clear to me that cities are going...
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Best poster award for CrowdTruth at ICT OPEN 2016
On the 22nd of March we presented our latest work on CrowdTruth at the ICT.OPEN 2016 conference. We are happy to announce that our poster received the best poster award in the Human and the Machine...
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Start of the ControCurator project
The aim of the ControCurator project is for modern information access systems to discover and understand controversial topics and events. This is done by 1) bringing together different types of crowds:...
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Exploiting disagreement through open ended tasks for capturing interpretation...
I presented my doctoral consortium paper titled “Exploiting disagreement through open ended tasks for capturing interpretation spaces” at the PhD Symposium of ESWC 2016. An important aspect of the...
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ESWC 2016 Trip Report
From May 29th until June 2nd 2016, the 13th Extended Semantic Web Conference took place in Crete, Greece. CrowdTruth was presented by Oana Inel presenting her paper “Machine-Crowd Annotation Workflow...
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Big Data in Society Summerschool
From 2 to 16th of July we organized the Big Data in Society Summerschool at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. As part of our Collaborative Innovation Center with IBM, we presented an introduction of...
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Crowdsourcing brainstem tumors at Lowlands 2016
Brainstem tumors are a rare form of childhood cancer for which there is currently no cure. The Semmy Foundation aims to increase the survival of children with this type of cancer by supporting...
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Weekly AI talk on ControCurator
Today I gave a talk in our Weekly AI meeting on the topic of ControCurator. This is a project that I am currently working on, which has the goal to enable the discovery and understanding of...
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