This page contains resources that were produced by members of the À Propos team, such as test collections and Web demos.
 

Demos

• The ILK Expert ranker is a Web demo of the expertise classification research done in the context of the À Propos project. It ranks members of the ILK research group on their expertise on the queries that are entered. The Web demo can be found here.

Data sets

• We constructed an expertise retrieval test collection based on the Webwijs system in use at the University of Tilburg. This collection can be found here and is described in the SIGIR 2007 paper below. Instructions for usage and citing can be found on the collection page.
  
  
  • Broad Expertise Retrieval in Sparse Data Environments. K. Balog, T. Bogers, L. Azzopardi, M. de Rijke, and A. van den Bosch. In SIGIR '07: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 551-558. ACM Press, July 2007. [pdf]
     
    



• For earlier experiments we constructed a test collection for IR experiments based on the ILK workgroup publications. This collection (v20050101) can be found here as used in the experiments described in the following papers:
  
  
  • Expertise Classification: Collaborative Classification vs. Automatic Extraction. T. Bogers, W. Thoonen, and A. van den Bosch. In J. Turner and J. Tennis (Eds.) Proceedings of the 17th ASIS&T SIG/CR workshop on Social Classification, 2006. [pdf]
     
    
  • À Propos: Pro-Active Personalization for Professional Document Writing. T. Bogers, and A. van den Bosch. Long abstract in Proceedings of IIiX 2006, October 2006. [pdf] [abstract]
     
    
  • Expertise in Werkgroepen. W. Thoonen. Master's thesis, Tilburg University, August 2006. [pdf] [abstract]
     
    
  • Authoritative re-ranking of search results. T. Bogers and A. van den Bosch. In Proceedings of the 28th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2006), vol. 3936 of Lecture Notes on Computer Science, pp. 519-522. Springer Verlag, April 2006. [pdf] [poster]
     
    
  • Authoritative re-ranking in fusing authorship-based subcollection search results. T. Bogers and A. van den Bosch. In F. de Jong and W. Kraaij (Eds.), Proceedings of the Sixth Belgian-Dutch Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR 2006), pp 49-55. Enschede: Neslia Paniculata, March 2006. [pdf]