Willem Robert van Hage

Also published as: Willem Van Hage, Willem van Hage


2017

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Storyteller: Visual Analytics of Perspectives on Rich Text Interpretations
Maarten van Meersbergen | Piek Vossen | Janneke van der Zwaan | Antske Fokkens | Willem van Hage | Inger Leemans | Isa Maks
Proceedings of the 2017 EMNLP Workshop: Natural Language Processing meets Journalism

Complexity of event data in texts makes it difficult to assess its content, especially when considering larger collections in which different sources report on the same or similar situations. We present a system that makes it possible to visually analyze complex event and emotion data extracted from texts. We show that we can abstract from different data models for events and emotions to a single data model that can show the complex relations in four dimensions. The visualization has been applied to analyze 1) dynamic developments in how people both conceive and express emotions in theater plays and 2) how stories are told from the perspectyive of their sources based on rich event data extracted from news or biographies.

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GRaSP: Grounded Representation and Source Perspective
Antske Fokkens | Piek Vossen | Marco Rospocher | Rinke Hoekstra | Willem Robert van Hage
Proceedings of the Workshop Knowledge Resources for the Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities associated with RANLP 2017

When people or organizations provide information, they make choices regarding what information they include and how they present it. The combination of these two aspects (the content and stance provided by the source) represents a perspective. Investigating differences in perspective can provide various useful insights in the reliability of information, the way perspectives change over time, shared beliefs among groups of a similar social or political background and contrasts between other groups, etc. This paper introduces GRaSP, a generic framework for modeling perspectives and their sources.

2014

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NewsReader: recording history from daily news streams
Piek Vossen | German Rigau | Luciano Serafini | Pim Stouten | Francis Irving | Willem Van Hage
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)

The European project NewsReader develops technology to process daily news streams in 4 languages, extracting what happened, when, where and who was involved. NewsReader does not just read a single newspaper but massive amounts of news coming from thousands of sources. It compares the results across sources to complement information and determine where they disagree. Furthermore, it merges news of today with previous news, creating a long-term history rather than separate events. The result is stored in a KnowledgeStore, that cumulates information over time, producing an extremely large knowledge graph that is visualized using new techniques to provide more comprehensive access. We present the first version of the system and the results of processing first batches of data.

2013

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GAF: A Grounded Annotation Framework for Events
Antske Fokkens | Marieke van Erp | Piek Vossen | Sara Tonelli | Willem Robert van Hage | Luciano Serafini | Rachele Sprugnoli | Jesper Hoeksema
Workshop on Events: Definition, Detection, Coreference, and Representation

2007

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UVAVU: WordNet Similarity and Lexical Patterns for Semantic Relation Classification
Willem Robert van Hage | Sophia Katrenko
Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations (SemEval-2007)