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.
Fannr was a prototype that helped Flickr users annotate photos by recommending tags and possible locations, drawing on their own photos and wider photo collections. read more…
TagExplorer was a Yahoo! Research prototype for browsing Flickr photos through semantically organized tag clouds, combining work on tag recommendation and tag classification. read more…
Wikiii applied focused search to Wikipedia, returning relevant sections of articles rather than only whole articles. It used the Lucene-based XML retrieval engine I developed during my PhD research. read more…
XMLFind was a student-built search prototype that returned relevant sections of scientific articles in the INEX collection. I supervised the team and provided the XML retrieval engine on which it was built. read more…
