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Research Area: Search Technologies, Econ and Social Sys |
Profile
Dr. Roelof van Zwol joined Yahoo! Research Barcelona in August 2006, where he is heading a Multimedia group.
The focus of the research is on media interaction, mining and search. Furthermore, his research activities include geographic information retrieval. He obtained his PhD. degree from the Database group at University of Twente, the Netherlands on the topic of "Modelling and Searching Web-based Document Collections."
Prior to joining Yahoo! Research, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, where his work focused on Spatial Information Retrieval, and (Multimedia) XML retrieval, and social search.
His primary research interests include: social media, multimedia, user generated content, information retrieval, databases, and GIS.
He is also active in the SEMEDIA european project on "Search Environments for Media" as the technical coordinator.
Recent Publications, Projects and News
- Flickr Tag Recommendation based on Collective Knowledge Borkur Sigurbjornsson ; van Zwol, Roelof, 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), ACM Press, 2008 [view abstract]
- Video Tag Game van Zwol, Roelof ; Lluis Garcia ; Georgina Ramirez ; Borkur Sigurbjornsson ; Marcos Labad, 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), ACM Press, 2008 [view abstract]
- Multimeida Information Retrieval: ”New Challenges in Audio Visual search” van Zwol, Roelof ; Rueger, Stefan ; Sanderson, Mark ; Mass, Yosi, SIGIR Forum, ACN Press, 2007, 2 [view abstract]
- New challenges in audio visual search van Zwol, Roelof ; Rueger, Stefan ; Sanderson, Mark ; Mass, Yosi, fifth international workshop on multimedia information retrieval, held in conjunction with the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference, ACM Press, 2007, 5
- Flickr: Who is Looking? van Zwol, Roelof, proceedings of the 2007 IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2007), 2007
- XSee: Structure Xposed van Zwol, Roelof ; Weerkamp, Wouter, In Comparative Evaluation of XML Information Retrieval Systems, 2007
- The INEX 2006 Multimedia track Westerveld, Thijs ; van Zwol, Roelof, In Comparative Evaluation of XML Information Retrieval Systems, 2007
- XSee: Structure Xposed van Zwol, Roelof ; Weerkamp, Wouter, In INEX 2006 Workshop Proceedings, 2006
- Benchmarking Multimedia Search in Structured Collections Westerveld, Thijs ; van Zwol, Roelof, In INEX 2006 Workshop Proceedings, 2006
- SHREC2006: 3D Shape Retrieval Contest Veltkamp, Remco C. ; Ruijsenaars, Remco ; Spagnuolo, Michela ; van Zwol, Roelof ; ter Haar, Frank, IEEE International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications, 2006
- Query Formulation for XML Retrieval with Bricks Zwol, R. van ; Baas, J. ; Oostendorp, H. van ; Wiering, F., Proceedings of the INEX 2005 Workshop on Element Retrieval Methodology, INEX - DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries, 2005
- The Utrecht Blend: Basic Ingredients for an XML Retrieval System van Zwol, Roelof ; Dignum, Virginia ; Wiering, Frans, Proceedings of the INEX 2004 Workshop, 2004
- B3-SDR Zwol, R. van ; Spruit, S. ; Baas, J., INEX 2005 Workshop Proceedings, INEX