This portfolio presents selected projects as a complement to my curriculum vitae and freelance services. It demonstrates my work in search and knowledge systems, urban and spatial analysis, and software for artistic projects. The projects range from recent freelance and startup work with Urbanixm to earlier work at Yahoo! Labs and the University of Amsterdam.
One of my most fruitful project while working at Yahoo! Research was a collaboration with the Yahoo! Image Search team. We built system for extracting and ranking points of interest for towns, countries and regions. The points of interest were extracted from Wikipedia, Yahoo! GeoPlanet and Yahoo! Travel. The ranking was based on co-occurrence statistics… read more
The main research topic during my PhD research was XML Element Retrieval [1]. I took a corpus of scientific articles in XML format and built a search engine on top of it to run experiments. For a given user query, the task was to go below the document level and return the XML elements that… read more