Djoerd Hiemstra


2021

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BERT meets Cranfield: Uncovering the Properties of Full Ranking on Fully Labeled Data
Negin Ghasemi | Djoerd Hiemstra
Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop

Recently, various information retrieval models have been proposed based on pre-trained BERT models, achieving outstanding performance. The majority of such models have been tested on data collections with partial relevance labels, where various potentially relevant documents have not been exposed to the annotators. Therefore, evaluating BERT-based rankers may lead to biased and unfair evaluation results, simply because a relevant document has not been exposed to the annotators while creating the collection. In our work, we aim to better understand a BERT-based ranker’s strengths compared to a BERT-based re-ranker and the initial ranker. To this aim, we investigate BERT-based rankers performance on the Cranfield collection, which comes with full relevance judgment on all documents in the collection. Our results demonstrate the BERT-based full ranker’s effectiveness, as opposed to the BERT-based re-ranker and BM25. Also, analysis shows that there are documents that the BERT-based full-ranker finds that were not found by the initial ranker.

2016

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#WhoAmI in 160 Characters? Classifying Social Identities Based on Twitter Profile Descriptions
Anna Priante | Djoerd Hiemstra | Tijs van den Broek | Aaqib Saeed | Michel Ehrenhard | Ariana Need
Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP and Computational Social Science

2015

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#SupportTheCause: Identifying Motivations to Participate in Online Health Campaigns
Dong Nguyen | Tijs van den Broek | Claudia Hauff | Djoerd Hiemstra | Michel Ehrenhard
Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

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On the Impact of Twitter-based Health Campaigns: A Cross-Country Analysis of Movember
Nugroho Dwi Prasetyo | Claudia Hauff | Dong Nguyen | Tijs van den Broek | Djoerd Hiemstra
Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis

2013

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UT-DB: An Experimental Study on Sentiment Analysis in Twitter
Zhemin Zhu | Djoerd Hiemstra | Peter Apers | Andreas Wombacher
Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), Volume 2: Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2013)