Wessel Kraaij

sr. research scientist at TNO Information and Communication Technology
Professor at Radboud University Nijmegen (ICIS / Information Foraging Lab)

COORDINATES

Prof. dr. ir. Wessel Kraaij
TNO Information and Communication Technology
PO BOX 5050
2600 GB Delft
visiting address: Brassersplein 2, 2612 CT Delft
route description, google maps
phone: +31(0)6 12990543
fax: +31(0)15 2857057
Wessel.Kraaij "at" tno.nl

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Peer review for journals / book series / research proposals

ACM Transactions on Information Systems;
Information Processing & Management;
Speech Communication;
Information Retrieval;
ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing;
Journal of Natural Language Engineering;
Computer Vision and Image Understanding;
Human Language Technologies, Morgan and Claypool
ERC Ideas

Programme committees

2010

DIR 2010 (chair)

2009

ACM CIKM SIGIR 2009 (IR track vice programme chair)
ACM SIGIR 2009
ACL 2009
ECIR 2009
DIR 2009
ICSC 2009: special session on speech search
SSCS 2009 workshop @ ACM Multimedia 2009 (co-organizer)
Multimedia in Forensics workshop @ ACM Multimedia 2009
co-chair SAMT 2009 Industry Day
organizer symposium "In search of privacy"

2000-2008

SAMT 2008: PC member
IIix 2008: PC member
ACM SIGIR 2009: PC member; ACM SIGIR 2008: PC member; ACM SIGIR 2007, Amsterdam: general (co)chair ACM SIGIR 2006: PC member, best paper awards committtee ; ACM SIGIR 2005: PC member ; ACM SIGIR 2004: PC member ; ACM SIGIR 2003: PC, area coordinator CLIR; ACM SIGIR 2002: best paper awards committee; SIGIR 2002 workshop roadmap for CLIR: PC member
ECIR 2009: PC member and best paper committee; ECIR 2008: PC member; ECIR 2007: PC member; ECIR 2006: PC member; ECIR 2005: PC member ; ECIR 2004: PC member ; ECIR 2003: PC member
CORIA 2006: PC member
ACL 2009: PC member; ACL 2003: PC member
International Joint conference on NLP 2005: PC member
IJCAI 2005 workshop: Multi-Agent Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems: PC member
ACM CIKM 2005 : PC member
ICME 2005: PC member
CIVR 2006: PC member; CIVR 2004: PC member
EMNLP 2002: PC member ; EMNLP 2001: PC member
DUC 2002: PC member
HLT/NAACL 2006: PC member ; HLT 2002: PC member
COLING 2002 workshop on multilingual summarization and question answering: PC member
DIR 2002: PC member and editor proceedings ; DIR 2006, co-chair, DIR 2008, PC member; DIR 2009, PC member
RIAO 2000: PC member

Membership, Boards.

TRECVID (international video indexing and retrieval evaluation campaign) (2003-): joint coordinator (with Alan Smeaton)
ACM: senior member
ACM SIGIR: member
ACM SIGKDD: member
BCS IRSG: member
Journal of Multimedia: member of the editorial board
Information Processing & Management: member of the editorial board

Panels

CLEF 2000 closing panel session
DUC 2002 panel on evaluation of automatic summarization systems
Search engines meeting 2004, panel on multilingual information retrieval

PUBLICATIONS

papers indexed by topic
full list of papers
papers indexed by Google Scholar (h-index: 22, measured using Harzing's Publish or Perish)
author entry in ACM DL
Ph.D. thesis
Inaugural lecture "Woorden Wikken en Wegen" (in Dutch), video recording

SOFTWARE

C-implementation of the Kraaij-Pohlmann stemmer for Dutch

MISC

Press release...;-)