Maria-Hendrike Peetz

Maria-Hendrike Peetz

Maria-Hendrike is a PhD student at the University of Amsterdam, at the Information and Language Processing Systems (ILPS) group at University of Amsterdam. She works on temporal information retrieval for social media. She is a graduate of Cognitive Science (University of Osnabrück) and Artificial Intelligence (University of Amsterdam) in summer 2009. She strives to provide role models and networking opportunities to (young) women by co-organizing the Amsterdam Girl Geek Dinners (GGD).
Her expertise is on the boundary between human and artificial intelligence. She has a passion for finding and representing information buried within huge collections of documents. Her current interest is on (micro)-blogs and other temporally ordered collections. She tries to bridge human information retrieval and search engine technologies.
Hendrike has been through the process finding and keeping sponsors for a non-profit event (the GGD). Part of this involves balancing finances with creative ideas. She works on undermining the old-boys network in the Netherlands by creating and fostering networks with a greater fraction of women.
She is a finalist for the Google EMEA Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship 2012.

CV

I have an English CV, mail me for a German or Dutch version.

Publications

Maria-Hendrike Peetz, Edgar Meij, Maarten de Rijke, and Wouter Weerkamp. Adaptive Temporal Query Modeling 34th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2012)
Maria-Hendrike Peetz, Maarten Marx. Tree patterns with Full Text Search Procceedings of the 13th International Workshop on the Web and Databases, 2010.
A. Nusselder, H. Peetz, A. Schuth, and M. Marx. Helping people to choose for whom to vote. a web information system for the 2009 european elections. In CIKM '09: Proceeding of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management, pages 2095-2096, New York, NY, USA, 2009. ACM.
SaHaRa: Discovering Entity-Topic Associations in Online News, K. Balog, M. de Rijke, R. Franz, H. Peetz, B. Brinkman. In 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009), October 2009.
Lopatka, M. & Peetz, M.H. (2009). Vibration Sensitive Keystroke Analysis. In Proceedings of the 18th Annual Belgian-Dutch Conference on Machine Learning, 75-80 pdf bibtex

Presentations

Adaptive Temporal Query Modeling, DIR 2012
TREC 2012: trec-microblog
Tree patterns with Full Text Search. FoX Annual Event 2010, Amsterdam.

School Stuff

find out about the members of the EU parliament, their profiles and promises
Query expansion with Wikipedia
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Learning appropriate Earprint Features for use as Biometric Traces
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Profiling Potential Targets of Neo-Nazi Terrorist Activity: Is YOUR city at risk?
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KAB00M! An explosion of colour!
pdf screenshots: 1 2 3 4 5 6
A Mean-shift Approach to Kernel Based Object Tracking
(with applications to natural and artificial color domains)
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B.Sc.Thesis: Using Suffix Trees for Text Categorization in Computational Linguistics
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My very first project work (with Thomas Göbel, done in 2005), which is a compilation of German child books between 1850 and 2000. If you would like to use it, don't hesitate to contact me.
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Trivia

I had a scholarship for piano when I was a teenager, but by now my favourite instrument is the flute.

Traveling and broadening my mind is very important for me. I love the mountains, skiing in winter and hiking in summer, but the coast has its temptations as well (I used to be a lifeguard DLRG).

I love to cook wholesome, vegetarian food. I am a vegetarian, and no, I don't eat fish. I try to avoid animal products in general, but I just love cheese.

Currently, I have a second passion next to my PhD and that is Aikibujutsu.

I am now married to Thomas Peetz - it was the easiest yes ever.

mail me: hpeetz at science dot uva dot nl

We have a cat, Miau-Tse-Tung. Before that we had rats (Gödel and Chomsky) and I had a cat (Teddy).

I read books.

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