Two new TEAM members

Two new TEAM members could be recruited by Mendeley and ELIKO in the TEAM project. Christian Prokopp starts at Mendeley working on topics models and their impact. Honghan Wu started at ELIKO and will focus on Linked Open Data and its usage in recommended systems. Their details can be found on the TEAM Research Page.

We are happy to have both on board for bringing our research project forward!

Kris Jack gives opening Keynote at the I-Know'11 Special Track on Recommendation, Data Sharing, and Research Practices in Science 2.0

Next week the I-Know'11 conferences started, where the TEAM team organised the special track on Recommendation, Data Sharing, and Research Practices in Science 2.0. Kris Jack from Mendeley will give the opening keynote of the special track on "Mendeley: Crowed-Sourcing and Recommending Research on the Large Scale".

I am looking forward to hear his talk.

Author Disambiguation Presentation @ TIR Workshop

This week i presented our work on author disambiguation at the TIR'11 workshop in Toulouse. The presentation outlined our findings on the need of very clean features and better model selection methods for disambiguating author names in the wild. Discussions raised the idea to use overlapping blocking methods and to apply outlier detection afterwards. That may be a nicer approach in solving the model selection problem.

Of course the presentation is also uploaded to the Mendeley based TEAM folder for sharing our documents in the project