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D-Index
41
Citations
12665
World Ranking
8612
National Ranking
148

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - ACM Distinguished Member
  • 2007 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Wessel Kraaij is affiliated with Leiden University in the Netherlands and has contributed extensively to the field of Computer Science. Their work primarily focuses on subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, General Health Professions, Applied Psychology, and Information Systems.

Their research encompasses a wide array of topics including:

  • Topic Modeling
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
  • E-Government and Public Services
  • Social Media and Politics

Kraaij has published a notable number of papers in various respected venues. Frequently contributing to arXiv (Cornell University) with six publications, they have also published in JMIR Formative Research and Scientific Reports (each with two publications). They have appeared in Public Administration Review and the Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media as well.

Selected recent papers include:

  • "Inclusivity in Online Platforms: Recruitment Strategies for Improving Participation of Diverse Sociodemographic Groups" (2020, Public Administration Review)
  • "A Shallow Approach to Subjectivity Classification" (2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media)
  • "Privacy-preserving dataset combination and Lasso regression for healthcare predictions" (2021, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making)
  • "A multi-stakeholder approach to eHealth development: Promoting sustained healthy living among cardiovascular patients" (2020, International Journal of Medical Informatics)
  • "Retrieval for Extremely Long Queries and Documents with RPRS: A Highly Efficient and Effective Transformer-based Re-Ranker" (2023, ACM Transactions on Information Systems)

Collaborations feature multiple frequent co-authors, including Suzan Verberne, Arian Askari, Amin Abolghasemi, Gabriella Pasi, and Anne Dirkson, reflecting ongoing partnerships across different projects and domains.

The scientist has been recognized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), receiving the ACM Senior Member title in 2007 and being designated an ACM Distinguished Member in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Evaluation campaigns and TRECVid

    Alan F. Smeaton;Paul Over;Wessel Kraaij

  • The AMI meeting corpus: a pre-announcement

    Jean Carletta;Simone Ashby;Sebastien Bourban;Mike Flynn

  • TRECVID 2011 - An overview of the goals, tasks, data, evaluation mechanisms, and metrics

    P. Over;G. Awad;J. Fiscus;B. Antonishek

  • TRECVID 2012 - An overview of the goals, tasks, data, evaluation mechanisms, and metrics

    P. Over;J. Fiscus;G. Sanders;B. Shaw

  • TRECVID 2014 - An Overview of the Goals, Tasks, Data, Evaluation Mechanisms, and Metrics

    Paul Over;Jon Fiscus;Gregory A. Sanders;David Joy

  • TRECVID 2013 -- An Overview of the Goals, Tasks, Data, Evaluation Mechanisms, and Metrics | NIST

    Paul D. Over;Jonathan G. Fiscus;Gregory A. Sanders;David M. Joy

  • TRECVID 2013 -- An Overview of the Goals, Tasks, Data, Evaluation Mechanisms and Metrics

    P. Over;J. Fiscus;G. Sanders;M. Michel

  • The AMI meeting corpus

    I. McCowan;J. Carletta;W. Kraaij;S. Ashby

  • 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

  • Viewing stemming as recall enhancement

    Wessel Kraaij;Renée Pohlmann

  • The SWELL Knowledge Work Dataset for Stress and User Modeling Research

    Saskia Koldijk;Maya Sappelli;Suzan Verberne;Mark A. Neerincx

  • High-level feature detection from video in TRECVid: a 5-year retrospective of achievements

    Alan F. Smeaton;Paul Over;Wessel Kraaij

  • 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

  • TRECVID 2005 - An Overview

    Paul Over;Tzveta Ianeva;Wessel Kraaij;Alan F. Smeaton

  • Detecting Work Stress in Offices by Combining Unobtrusive Sensors

    Saskia Koldijk;Mark A. Neerincx;Wessel Kraaij

  • Embedding web-based statistical translation models in cross-language information retrieval

    Wessel Kraaij;Jian-Yun Nie;Michel Simard

  • TRECVID 2016: Evaluating Video Search, Video Event Detection, Localization, and Hyperlinking

    J. Fiscus;D. Joy;M. Michel;G. Awad;G. Awad

  • TRECVID 2013 ― An Overview of the Goals, Tasks, Data, Evaluation Mechanisms and Metrics

    Paul Over;George Awad;Jonathan Fiscus;Greg Sanders

  • MeSH Up

    Dolf Trieschnigg;Piotr Pezik;Vivian Lee;Franciska de Jong

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan F. Smeaton
Alan F. Smeaton Dublin City University
Paul Over
Paul Over National Institute of Standards and Technology
Djoerd Hiemstra
Djoerd Hiemstra Radboud University
Martha Larson
Martha Larson Radboud University
Chong-Wah Ngo
Chong-Wah Ngo Singapore Management University
Mark A. Neerincx
Mark A. Neerincx Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research
Norbert Fuhr
Norbert Fuhr University of Duisburg-Essen
Jaap Kamps
Jaap Kamps University of Amsterdam
Martijn J. Schuemie
Martijn J. Schuemie Janssen (Belgium)
Florian Metze
Florian Metze Carnegie Mellon University

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