Teaching
2013
- Data Science – 2 lectures in the M.Sc.-level course at TU Delft, The Netherlands
- Foundations of Web Search – 12-week B.Sc.-level seminar at TU Delft, The Netherlands
2012
- Exploiting User Comments – Invited talk at the Dutch Hadoop User Group Meetup. Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- The Role of the User in IR – Invited talk in the “Digitale Bibliothek” Symposium at Fachhochschule Hannover, Germany
2011
- Current Research on IR for Children – Invited lecture in the IR Methodology and Evaluation course at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Filtering Shared Video Content for Children – Oral plenary presentation at ICT.OPEN, Veldhoven, The Netherlands
- Introduction to Crowdsourcing – Invited talk at the Speech and Language Colloquium at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Information Retrieval – Teaching assistant for the 10-week M.Sc.-level course at TU Delft, The Netherlands
2010
- Introduction to Information Extraction – Guest lecture in the Speech and Language Processing course at University of Twente, The Netherlands
Project Supervision
2011
Pieter Dekker – Children’s Roles in Web Search
Searching information on the Internet includes several non-trivial steps such as phrasing keyword queries or judging the relevance and credibility of retrieved results. This expertise has to be acquired over time. In a user study at a Dutch elementary school, we observe children’s Web search behavior in order to predict their likelihood of succeeding in finding the desired information.
