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Computer Science
Netherlands
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
44
Citations
11480
World Ranking
7430
National Ranking
125

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2009 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Djoerd Hiemstra is affiliated with Radboud University in the Netherlands, focusing on research within the field of Computer Science. Their work spans multiple subfields including Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Sociology and Political Science, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Signal Processing.

Hiemstra's research addresses a range of topics with notable emphasis on Web Data Mining and Analysis, Information Retrieval and Search Behavior, Semantic Web and Ontologies, Topic Modeling, Digital Marketing and Social Media, Data Management and Algorithms, and Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques.

Frequent collaborators include Gijs Hendriksen, Martin Potthast, Arjen P. de Vries, Michael Granitzer, and Saber Zerhoudi, indicating sustained and repeated research partnerships over multiple projects.

Their recent published papers include:

  • "Mo" Together or Alone? Investigating the Role of Fundraisers' Networks in Online Peer-to-Peer Fundraising (2021, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly)
  • Impact and development of an Open Web Index for open web search (2023, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology)
  • Comparing Rule-based, Feature-based and Deep Neural Methods for De-identification of Dutch Medical Records (2020, arXiv (Cornell University))
  • Transitioning the information retrieval literature to a fully open access model (2020, ACM SIGIR Forum)
  • Dynamic and Partial Grading of SQL Queries (2024, Journal of Engineering Research and Sciences)

Hiemstra has published several works in multiple venues where they frequently contribute, including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • ACM SIGIR Forum
  • Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
  • Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
  • Journal of Engineering and Research and Sciences

In addition to journal articles, Hiemstra has contributed to book publications with Springer Science+Business Media, with notable entries titled "Advances in Information Retrieval" published in 2021.

Their research and professional contributions were recognized in 2009 with the designation of ACM Senior Member.

Best Publications

  • Using Language Models for Information Retrieval

    Djoerd Hiemstra

  • Language models for information retrieval

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  • The Importance of Prior Probabilities for Entry Page Search

    Wessel Kraaij;Thijs Westerveld;Djoerd Hiemstra

  • Challenges in information retrieval and language modeling: report of a workshop held at the center for intelligent information retrieval, University of Massachusetts Amherst, September 2002

    James Allan;Jay Aslam;Nicholas Belkin;Chris Buckley

  • A Linguistically Motivated Probabilistic Model of Information Retrieval

    Djoerd Hiemstra

  • A probabilistic justification for using tf.idf term weighting in information retrieval

    Djoerd Hiemstra

  • Twenty-One at TREC-7: ad-hoc and cross-language track

    Djoerd Hiemstra;Wessel Kraaij

  • Retrieving Web Pages Using Content, Links, URLs and Anchors

    Thijs Westerveld;Wessel Kraaij;Djoerd Hiemstra

  • A survey of pre-retrieval query performance predictors

    Claudia Hauff;Djoerd Hiemstra;Franciska de Jong

  • Parsimonious language models for information retrieval

    Djoerd Hiemstra;Stephen Robertson;Hugo Zaragoza

  • Modeling multi-step relevance propagation for expert finding

    Pavel Serdyukov;Henning Rode;Djoerd Hiemstra

  • Term-specific smoothing for the language modeling approach to information retrieval: the importance of a query term

    Djoerd Hiemstra

  • Information Retrieval Models

    Djoerd Hiemstra

  • Disambiguation Strategies for Cross-Language Information Retrieval

    Djoerd Hiemstra;Franciska de Jong

  • Modeling documents as mixtures of persons for expert finding

    Pavel Serdyukov;Djoerd Hiemstra

  • Temporal Language Models for the Disclosure of Historical Text

    F.M.G. de Jong;H. Rode;D. Hiemstra

  • A cross-benchmark comparison of 87 learning to rank methods

    Niek Tax;Sander Bockting;Djoerd Hiemstra

  • Analysis of Search and Browsing Behavior of Young Users on the Web

    Sergio Duarte Torres;Ingmar Weber;Djoerd Hiemstra

  • Relating the new language models of information retrieval to the traditional retrieval models

    Djoerd Hiemstra;de Arjen P. Vries

  • Bayesian extension to the language model for ad hoc information retrieval

    Hugo Zaragoza;Djoerd Hiemstra;Michael Tipping

  • A probabilistic multimedia retrieval model and its evaluation

    Thijs Westerveld;Arjen P. de Vries;Alex van Ballegooij;Franciska de Jong

Frequent Co-Authors

Wessel Kraaij
Wessel Kraaij Leiden University
Pavel Serdyukov
Pavel Serdyukov Yandex (Russia)
Jaap Kamps
Jaap Kamps University of Amsterdam
Leif Azzopardi
Leif Azzopardi University of Strathclyde
Chris Develder
Chris Develder Ghent University
Stephen Robertson
Stephen Robertson University College London
Hugo Zaragoza
Hugo Zaragoza Amazon (United States)
Ingmar Weber
Ingmar Weber Saarland University
Donna Harman
Donna Harman National Institute of Standards and Technology
Tiziana Catarci
Tiziana Catarci Sapienza University of Rome

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