Projects
Neuro-immune interaction in postoperative ileus: new targets for treatment KU Leuven
62.836,01 Euro: New Feet for 5 Years a Minute (Jo Van Den Berghe promotor, Jeroen D'hoe (LUCA Lemmensinstituut) co-promotor. KU Leuven
Transdisciplinary research architecture-music.
Towards Story Understanding and Search - Web Mining Methods and Tools for Exploration, Search and Discovery KU Leuven
From Text to Time: Machine Learning Approaches to Temporal Information Extraction from Text KU Leuven
Temporal information extraction is and has been a crucial aspect of automatic language understanding. With the increase in digitization of texts like news papers, but also electronic health records, high quality extraction of temporal information about the described events gives rise to many applications, like question answering, summarization, temporal information retrieval, and automatic timeline visualization.
In this dissertation, ...
User modeling for personalized Ad retrieval KU Leuven
The era of Social Media-as we know it today-started around the early 2000s. Social media enable a form of virtual content sharing that is fundamentally different than before. Social media content is no longer created and published by specific individuals, but instead is continuously modified by all users in a collaborative fashion. Nowadays, users around the world are taking advantage of social media as one of their key components of ...
The Role of Data Visualization in Urban Studies KU Leuven
As large volumes of data become increasingly available, new opportunities arise to harness their potential for urban studies. Data visualization is vital for this purpose, particularly in tackling fuzzy problems that require an explorative process of discovery to re-frame. This research investigates how data visualization can be used to harness big data for domain specific challenges in urban studies. To address this question, I demonstrate ...
Brittle tectonics in the Lufilian fold-and-thrust belt and its foreland. An insight into the stress field record in relation to moving plates (Katanga, DRC) KU Leuven
Continuous learning KU Leuven
The world around us is continuously evolving (think e.g. of fashion, news items or social media trends). A static artificial agent, trained in the lab and then deployed in the real world, will quickly get outdated. To keep up the pace, an artificial agent should be evolving as well, gradually increasing its knowledge about the world and expanding its horizons. In this project, we study how to make an artificial agent learn multiple tasks, ...
Provoking Diversity in Media using the Diversity Checker KU Leuven
This thesis describes the genesis of the Diversity Checker, a tool meant to provoke journalists into producing more diverse content in an intelligent fashion. Diversity in media is a very broad topic, and the project that this thesis is a part of is similarly broad in its scope. The multidisciplinary nature of the project enables the various disciplines to influence each other positively, and in particular it gives the work presented here a ...