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Description: Prof.dr.ir. Arjen P. de Vries. Computer scientist specialized in information access to dataspaces through the integration of information retrieval and databases.
This page reflects my research profile at the time I headed the Information Access research group at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) (before I moved to Radboud University in 2015). Consider it digital cultural heritage; I have made an effort to replace stale links by working alternatives from the Internet Archive.
The main topics of my research include structured document retrieval and entity ranking, multimedia information retrieval, the application of information retrieval theory to recommendation systems and social media, nearest neighbour search in high dimensional spaces, the integration of information retrieval and database technology, and the evaluation methodology needed in these novel information retrieval application areas. My interests match the introduction of the dataspaces abstraction, although that ide
September 1st, 2008, I have been appointed Full Professor Multimedia Dataspaces (nl) at Delft University of Technology . May 8th, 2009, I gave my inaugural lecture "Zoektocht op schema" . Finally, I am co-founder of CWI spin-off company Spinque .
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Tiqre B.V.