DuOMAn

DuOMAn is a 3-year project funded by De Nederlandse Taalunie within the STEVIN programme. The project focuses on the development of a set of Dutch language resources and tools for identifying and aggregating sentiments (opinions) in online data sources, such as news and blogs.

Partners

• University of Amsterdam: Maarten de Rijke, Valentin Jijkoun, Breyten Ernsting (till May 2009), Fons Laan (from Oct. 2009)
• TrendLight Netherlands B.V.: Raymond Franz
• GridLine: Tigran Spaan, Oele Koornwinder
• Hogeschool Gent: Veronique Hoste, Iris Hendrickx
• Rijksuniversiteit Groningen: Gertjan van Noord

Links

• Wiki for the project participants
• Weblog of the project
• STEVIN site and wiki

Deliverables and progress reports

• Demo version 0.1: http://peilend.nl
• Indexing structure description (D.1.1): pdf
• User requirements (D.8.1): pdf
• Description of the log analysis methods (D.8.2): pdf
• Progress report 1-4-2009: pdf
• Progress report 1-10-2008: pdf

Publications

1. Jijkoun V. , Khalid M. A., Marx M., de Rijke M.. Named Entity Normalization in User Generated Content. Proceedings of the SIGIR 2008 Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data (AND 2008), Singapore, July, 2008.
2. Khalid M. A., Jijkoun V., de Rijke M. The Impact of Named Entity Normalization on Information Retrieval for Question Answering. Proceedings of the 30th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2008): Springer, pp. 705–710, April, 2008.
3. Jijkoun V., de Rijke M. Overview of WebCLEF 2008 (draft). Working Notes for the CLEF 2008 Workshop, Aarhus, September, 2008.
4. Jijkoun V., de Rijke M. Overview of WebCLEF 2008. In Evaluating Systems for Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access: 9th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2008, to  appear.
5. Jijkoun V., Hofmann K. Generating a Non-English Subjectivity Lexicon:  Relations That Matter. In Proceedings of12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2009), 2009.
6. Hendrickx I.,  Hoste V.  Coreference Resolution on Blogs and Commented News. In: S. Lalitha Devi, A. Branco, and R. Mitkov (Eds.): DAARC 2009, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 5847, pp. 43–53, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
7. Fissaha Adafre S., de Rijke M., Tjong Kim Sang E F.  Completing Lists of Entities. In: Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing V: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009.
8. Tsagkias E., Larson M., de Rijke M. Exploiting Surface Features for the Prediction of Podcast Preference. 31st European Conference on Information Retrieval Conference (ECIR 2009), April, 2009.
   
9. Balog K., He J., Hofmann K., Jijkoun V B., Monz C., Tsagkias E., Weerkamp W.W., de Rijke M.  The University of Amsterdam at WePS2. In: Second Web People Search Evaluation Workshop (WEPS 2009), April, 2009.
   
10. Balog K., Azzopardi L A., de Rijke M. Resolving Person Names in Web People Search. Weaving Services, Locations, and People on the WWW: Springer, July, 2009. 
    
11. Hofmann K., de Rijke M., Huurnink B., Meij E J. A Semantic Perspective on Query Log Analysis. Working Notes for the CLEF 2009 Workshop, September, 2009.  
12. Balog K., de Rijke M., Franz R., Peetz H., Brinkman B., Johgi I., Hirschel M.,  SaHaRa: Discovering Entity-Topic Associations in Online News,  8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009): Springer, October, 2009.
    
13. Tsagkias E., de Rijke M., Weerkamp W.W.,  Predicting the Volume of Comments on Online News Stories,  ACM 18th Conference on Information and Knowledge Managment (CIKM 2009), Hong Kong, ACM, November, 2009. 
    
14. Hofmann K., Tsagkias E., Meij E J., de Rijke M.,  The Impact of Document Structure on Keyphrase Extraction,  ACM 18th Conference on Information and Knowledge Managment (CIKM 2009), Hong Kong, ACM, November, 2009. 
    
15. Tsagkias E., Larson M., de Rijke M.,  Predicting Podcast Preference: An Analysis Framework and its Application,  Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2010.
16. Hofmann K., Balog K., Bogers T., de Rijke M.,  Contextual Factors for Finding Similar Experts,  Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2010.
17. He J., Weerkamp W.W., Larson M., de Rijke M., An Effective Coherence Measure to Determine Topical Consistency in User Generated Content, International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2010.

News

• 21-09-2009: DuOMAn site visit, Amsterdam
• 04-09-2009: STEVIN program day, Tilburg
• 11-09-2008: STEVIN program day, Hoeven
• 26-06-2008: STEVIN-IMIX conference, Rotterdam
• 11-04-2008: Kickoff meeting in Amsterdam
• 01-04-2008: Project started