Almer S. Tigelaar

A Little Bit of Everything

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Transformers Teaser

This has been in theaters for a while now, and I have to be honest and say that it is certainly one of the best teaser trailers of the year. The idea of taking something the...

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The Hangover Part II

As the name implies, this is the follow-up to 2009's surprise hit movie The Hangover. The creators kept predominantly the same cast of main characters as the original, which really is a good choice. I admit...

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On-Line

I replaced my relatively static previous homepage with a dynamic content focused blog. This time I decided to swallow my pride: not building the whole site from the ground up myself as I did before. Yet, I...

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X-Men: First Class

When the first X-Men movie came out in 2000 it stood out particularly because of its intelligent, character driven style. This was not so common in those days as critically panned movies, like Batman & Robin,...

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Insidious

Director James Wan is perhaps best known for directing the first Saw, a franchise of horror movies that spiralled out of control to end up being more about gore than about scare. Movies like Paranormal Activity...

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Rallysprint Ede 2011

In early April I went to a rallysprint event in Ede with a friend. He captured the event with his photo camera, the result of which I am sure will show up soon on his photostream....

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Search Result Caching in Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval Networks

Search Result Caching in Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval NetworksTigelaar, A. S. & Hiemstra, D. & Trieschnigg, D.In Proceedings of IRFC 2011, Vienna, Austria (pp. 134-148). View in Repository Abstract For peer-to-peer web search engines it is important...

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Query-Load Balancing by Caching Search Results in Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval Networks

Query-Load Balancing by Caching Search Results in Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval NetworksTigelaar, A. S. & Hiemstra, D.In Proceedings of DIR 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (pp. 28-31). View in Repository Abstract For peer-to-peer web search engines it is...

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Query-Based Sampling using Snippets

Query-Based Sampling using SnippetsTigelaar, A. S. & Hiemstra, D.In Proceedings of LSDS-IR 2010, Geneva, Switzerland (pp. 9-14). View in Repository Abstract Query-based sampling is a commonly used approach to model the content of servers. Conventionally, queries...

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Bertold van Voorst: Cluster-based Collection Selection in Uncooperative Distributed Information Retrieval

Cluster-based Collection Selection in Uncooperative Distributed Information Retrievalby Bertold van Voorst View in Repository Abstract The focus of this research is collection selection for distributed information retrieval. The collection descriptions that are necessary for selecting the...

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Automatic Summarisation of Discussion Fora

Automatic Summarisation of Discussion ForaTigelaar, A. S. & Akker, R. op den & Hiemstra, D.Natural Language Engineering Volume 16, Issue 2, 2010, ISSN 1351-3249, (pp. 161-192). View at Cambridge Journals On-LineView in Repository Abstract Web-based discussion...

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Query-Based Sampling: Can we do Better than Random?

Query-Based Sampling: Can we do Better than Random?Tigelaar, A. S. & Hiemstra, D.Technical Report TR-CTIT-10-04 (2010), Centre for Telematics and Information Technology,University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, ISSN 1381-3625. View in Repository Abstract Many servers on...

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