Current Work:

Conference and Workshop

35. Johan Oomen and Marieke van Erp (2012) Sharing cultural heritage the linked open data way - everyone's invited. To appear in: Museums and the Web 2012, San Diego, CA, USA, April 11-14 2012.

34. Marieke van Erp (2012) Reusing Linguistic Resources: Tasks and Goals for a Linked Data Approach. To appear in: Linked Data in Linguistics Workshop 2012, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, March 7-9 2012.

33. Willem Robert van Hage, Véronique Malaisé and Marieke van Erp (2011) Linked Open Piracy. To appear in: Proceedings of Detection, Representation and Exploitation of Events in the Semantic Web (DeRiVE 2011). Bonn, Germany 23 October 2011.

32. Chiel Van Den Akker, Susan Legêne, Marieke Van Erp, Lora Aroyo, Roxane Segers, Lourens Van Der Meij, Jacco Van Ossenbruggen, Guus Schreiber, Bob Wielinga, Johan Oomen and Geertje Jacobs (2011) Agora Digital Hermeneutics: Online Understanding of Cultural Heritage. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Web Science (WebSci’11). Koblenz, Germany 14 – 17 June 2011. (Nominated for Best Paper Award)

31. Marieke van Erp, Johan Oomen, Roxane Segers, Chiel van den Akker, Lora Aroyo, Geertje Jacobs, Susan Legêne, Lourens van der Meij, Jacco van Ossenbruggen and Guus Schreiber (2011) Automatic Heritage Metadata Enrichment with Historic Events.Museums and the Web 2011. Philadelphia, PA, USA, April 6-9 2011.

30. Chiel van den Akker, Lora Aroyo, Agata Cybulska, Marieke van Erp, Peter Gorgels, Laura Hollink, Cathy Jager, Susan Legêne, Lourens van der Meij, Johan Oomen, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Guus Schreiber, Roxane Segers, Piek Vossen and Bob Wielinga (2010) Historical Event-based Access to Museum Collections. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Recognising and Tracking Events on the Web and in Real Life (EVENTS2010), Athens, Greece, May, 2010.

Poster & Abstract

29. Willem R. van Hage, Véronique Malaisé, Marieke van Erp, Guus Schreiber (2011) Linked Open Piracy. Poster presented at The Sixth International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2011), Banff, Canada, 25 - 29 June 2011

28. Roxane Segers, Marieke van Erp, Lourens van der Meij, Lora Aroyo, Guus Schreiber, Bob Wielinga, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Johan Oomen, Geertje Jacobs (2011) Hacking History via Event Extraction. Poster presented at The Sixth International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2011), Banff, Canada, 25 - 29 June 2011

27. Marieke van Erp, Véronique Malaisé, Willem Robert van Hage, Vincent Osinga and Juan-Manuel Coleto (2011) Parse and Tag Somali Pirates. Abstract presented at Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands. Ghent, Belgium, February 11 2011.

26. Roxane Segers, Marieke van Erp and Lourens van der Meij (2011) Extraction of Historical Events from Unstructured Texts. Abstract presented at Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands. Ghent, Belgium, February 11 2011.

25. Chiel van den Akker, Lora Aroyo, Agata Cybulska, Marieke van Erp, Peter Gorgels, Laura Hollink, Cathy Jager, Susan Legêne, Lourens van der Meij, Johan Oomen, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Guus Schreiber, Roxane Segers, Piek Vossen and Bob Wielinga (2010) Automatic Metadata Enrichment and Linking for Event-driven Access to Distributed Collections. SIREN//NL, Veldhoven, December 2010. (Best Poster as chosen by the audience)

Publications from the MITCH project:

Ph.D. Thesis

24. Marieke van Erp (2010) Accessing Natural History: Discoveries in Data Cleaning, Structuring, and Retrieval. Ph.D. Thesis, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands. 

Book Chapter

23. Marieke van Erp, Antal van den Bosch, Steve Hunt, Marian van der Meij, René Dekker and Piroska Lendvai (2011) Natural Selection - Finding Specimens in a Natural History Collection. To Appear in Biodiversity / Book 7. InTech, Croatia.

Journal

22. Antal van den Bosch, Piroska Lendvai, Marieke van Erp, Steve Hunt, Marian van der Meij and René Dekker (2009) Weaving a New Fabric of Natural History. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, Vol. 34 No. 2, June, 2009.

21.Antal van den Bosch, Marieke van Erp, and Caroline Sporleder (2009) Making a Clean Sweep of Cultural Heritage. IEEE Intelligent Systems, Special Issue on AI and Cultural Heritage March/April 2009 (vol. 25 no. 2), pp. 54-63

Conference and Workshop

20. Marieke van Erp and Steve Hunt (2010) Knowledge-driven Information Retrieval for Natural History. Proceedings of the 10th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR 2010 ). Nijmegen, December 2010.

19. Marieke van Erp, Antal van den Bosch, Sander Wubben and Steve Hunt (2009) Instance-Driven Discovery of Ontological Relation Labels.Proceedings of EACL 2009 Workshop on Language Technology and Resources for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Education (LaTeCH - SHELT&R 2009), Athens, Greece, March 30, 2009

18. Marieke van Erp, Piroska Lendvai, and Antal van den Bosch (2009) Comparing Alternative Data-Driven Ontological Vistas of Natural History. Proceedings of IWCS-8, Tilburg, The Netherlands, 2009

17. Marieke van Erp, Piroska Lendvai, Antal van den Bosch and Steve Hunt (2008) Automatic Ontology Construction for Improved Access to Taxonomic Databases. International Workshop on Distributed Sensing and Collective Intelligence in Bio-diversity Monitoring(BioDivGrid’08). Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2008.

16. Marieke van Erp (2007) Retrieving Lost Information from Textual Databases: Rediscovering Expeditions from an Animal Specimen Database.Proceedings of the ACL 2007 Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage Data (LaTeCH 2007), Prague, Czech Republic, June 28, 2007.

15. Caroline Sporleder, Marieke van Erp, Tijn Porcelijn and Antal van den Bosch (2006) Correcting ’Wrong-Column’ Errors in Text Databases.Proceedings of the Annual Machine Learning Conference of Belgium and The Netherlands (Benelearn-06), pp. 49-56, Ghent, Belgium, 2006.

14. Caroline Sporleder, Marieke van Erp, Tijn Porcelijn and Antal van den Bosch (2006) Spotting the ’Odd-one-out’: Data-Driven Error Detection and Correction in Textual Databases. Proceedings of the EACL 2006 Workshop on Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining (ATEM-06), pp. 41-48, Trento, Italy, 2006.

13. Marieke van Erp (2006) Bootstrapping Multilingual Geographical Gazetteers from Corpora. Proceedings of the 11th ESSLLI Student Session, pp. 192-202, Malaga, Spain, 31 July - 11 August 2006.

12.Caroline Sporleder, Marieke van Erp, Tijn Porcelijn, Antal van den Bosch and Pim Arntzen (2006) Identifying Named Entities in Text Databases from the Natural History Domain. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-06), pp. 1742-1745, Genoa, Italy, 2006.

Poster & Abstract

11. Marieke van Erp (2009) Constructing a Domain Ontology from a Domain Database and the Web. Abstract presented at The 19th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN-09)

10. Marieke van Erp, Antal van den Bosch, Piroska Lendvai and Steve Hunt (2008) Feature selection techniques for database cleansing: knowledge-driven vs. greedy search. Abstract presented at and in Proceedings of the annual machine learning conference of Belgium and The Netherlands (Benelearn 2008) Spa, Belgium, May 20-21 2008.

9. Marieke van Erp (2008) Text Mining in Natural History. Poster presented at SIREN 2008, Amsterdam, Sept. 29, 2008.

8. Antal van den Bosch, Caroline Sporleder, Marieke van Erp, and Stephen Hunt (2007) Automatic techniques for generating and correcting cultural heritage collection metadata. Poster presented and abstract in manities 2007, Urbana-Champaign, June 2-8, 2007

7. Marieke van Erp (2007) What do objects 11551 and 15576 have in common? Finding hidden variables in a textual database. CLIN 17 - Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands, Leuven, Belgium, January 12, 2007

6. Marieke van Erp (2006) Bootstrapping Multilingual Geographical Gazetteers from Corpora. Poster presented at the Annual Machine Learning Conference of Belgium and The Netherlands (Benelearn-06), Ghent, Belgium, May 10-11 2006.

5. Caroline Sporleder, Marieke van Erp, Tijn Porcelijn, Antal van den Bosch and Pim Arntzen (2006) Identifying Named Entities in Text Databases from the Natural History Domain. Poster presented at the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-06), Genoa, Italy, May 24-26, 2006.

4. Caroline Sporleder, Marieke van Erp, Tijn Porcelijn, Antal van den Bosch and Pim Arntzen Cleaning and Enriching Textual Databases from the Natural History Domain. Poster presented at the 28th Annual Meeting of the DGfS, Poster Session SIG Computational Linguistics, Bielefeld, Germany, February 22-24, 2006, and at SIREN 2006, Utrecht, 12 October 2006.

3. Marieke van Erp, Caroline Sporleder, Tijn Porcelijn and Antal van den Bosch (2005) Correcting Taxonomic Errors in a Specimen Database. Abstract presented at The 16th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN-05), Amsterdam, December 16, 2005.

2.Caroline Sporleder, Marieke van Erp, Tijn Porcelijn, Antal van den Bosch and Pim Arntzen (2005) Cleaning and Enriching Data on Reptiles and Amphibians. Poster presented at SIREN 2005, Eindhoven, 6 October 2005

Technical Report

1. Caroline Sporleder, Marieke van Erp, Tijn Porcelijn, Antal van den Bosch, Pim Arntzen and Erik van Nieukerken (2006) Cleaning and Enriching Research Data on Reptiles and Amphibians. The MITCH Pilot Project and ”nulmeting”. Technical Report, ILK 06-01, Tilburg University, 2006.