Willem van Hage, PhD

Assistant Professor, VU University Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Research field: Computer and Information Science - Artificial Intelligence
semantic web, linked data, information retrieval, information integration, spatial reasoning, temporal reasoning, knowledge acquisition, ontology matching, evaluation methodology, trust modeling

Publications

Journal Article (6)
- Willem Robert van Hage, Véronique Malaisé, Gerben K. D. de Vries et al. (2011) Abstracting and reasoning over ship trajectories and web data with the Simple Event Model (SEM), 1-23. In Multimedia Tools and Applications.
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- Willem Robert van Hage, Véronique Malaisé, Roxane Segers et al. (2011) Design and Use of the Simple Event Model (SEM). In Journal of Web Semantics.
- Niels Willems, Willem Robert van Hage, Gerben K. D. de Vries et al. (2010) An Integrated Approach for Visual Analysis of a Multi-Source Moving Objects Knowledge Base. In International Journal of Geographical Information Science 24 (10).
- Willem Robert van Hage, Margherita Sini, Lori Finch et al. (2010) The OAEI 2006 Food Task: An Analysis of a Thesaurus Mapping Task. In Applied Ontology 5 (1).
- Willem Robert van Hage, Jan Wielemaker, Guus Schreiber (2010) The Space Package: Tight Integration of Space and Semantics, 131-146. In Transactions in Geographical Information Systems 14 (2).
- M. Scott Marshall, Marco Roos, Edgar Meij et al. (2008) De AIDA toolbox: Een gecombineerde aanpak voor het beheren van kennis. In Agroinformatica 21 (4).
Generic (2)
- Willem Robert van Hage, Véronique Malaisé, Gerben K. D. de Vries et al. (2009) Spatial and Semantic Reasoning to Recognize Ship Behavior.
- Pavel Shvaiko, Jérôme Euzenat, Heiner Stuckenschmidt et al. (2007) Description of alignment evaluation and benchmarking results.
Book Section (3)
- D. Ceolin, W. R. van Hage, G. Schreiber et al. (2011) Assessing trust for determining the reliability of information. In Situational Awareness with Systems of Systems.
- W. R. van Hage, D. Ceolin (2011) The Simple Event Model Tutorial. In Situational Awareness with Systems of Systems.
- M. Scott Marshall, Marco Roos, Edgar Meij et al. (2009) Semantic disclosure in an e-Science environment.
Conference Proceedings (20)
- D. Ceolin, W. R. van Hage, W. Fokkink et al. (2011) Estimating uncertainty of categorical web data. In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW 2011).
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- W. R. van Hage, V. Malaisé, M. van Erp (2011) Linked Open Piracy. In Proceedings of the Workhop on Detection, Representation, and Exploitation of Events in the Semantic Web (DeRiVE 2011).
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- Davide Ceolin, Willem Robert van Hage, Wan Fokkink (2010) A Trust Model to Estimate Quality of Annotations using the Web. In Proceedings of the Web Science Conference 2010 (WebSci10).
- Willem Robert van Hage, Natalia Stash, Yiwen Wang et al. (2010) Adaptation Step-by-Step: Challenges for Real-time Spatial Personalization. In Proceedings of Pervasive User Modeling and Personalization (PUMP'10).
- Davide Ceolin, Willem Robert van Hage, Paul Groth (2010) Calculating the Trust of Event Descriptions using Provenance. In Proceedings of the cond International Workshop on the role of Semantic Web in Provenance Management (SWPM 2010).
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- Gerben K. D. de Vries, Willem Robert van Hage, Maarten van Someren (2010) Comparing Vessel Trajectories using Geographical Domain Knowledge and Alignments. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data (SSTDM 2010).
- Willem Robert van Hage, Natalia Stash, Yiwen Wang et al. (2010) Finding Your Way through the Rijksmuseum with an Adaptive Mobile Museum Guide. In Proceedings of the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC).
- Chris van Aart, Bob Wielinga, Willem Robert van Hage (2010) Mobile Cultural Heritage Guide: Location-Aware Semantic Search. In Proceedings of EKAW 2010 - Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management by the Masses.
- Willem Robert van Hage, Véronique Malaisé, Gerben K. D. de Vries et al. (2009) Combining Ship Trajectories and Semantics with the Simple Event Model (SEM). In Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on Events in Multimedia.
- Willem Robert van Hage, Jan Wielemaker, Guus Schreiber (2009) The Space Package: Tight Integration of Space and Semantics. In Proceedings of the 8th International Semantic Web Conference Workshop: TerraCognita.
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Report (3)
- Jérôme Euzenat, Malgorzata Mochol, Pavel Shvaiko et al. (2007) Results of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative.
- Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Marc Ehrig, Jérôme Euzenat et al. (2006) D2.2.4: Alignment implementation and benchmarking results.
- Jérôme Euzenat, Malgorzata Mochol, Pavel Shvaiko et al. (2006) Results of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative.
Thesis (2)
- Willem Robert van Hage (2008) Evaluating Ontology-Alignment Techniques.
- Willem Robert van Hage (2004) "Living on the Edge", Combining structured & semi-structured data for information retrieval.

Awards and Grants

Mar 2011

US ONR Visiting Scientist Program travel grant to NRL Washington D.C., USA
Mar 2011

US ONR Visiting Scientist Program travel grant to ONR Santiago, Chile
Dec 2010

Best In-Use Paper Award EKAW 2010 Lisbon, Portugal
Sep 2007

EU-IST KnowledgeWeb Topic-oriented Researcher Exchange (T-REX) grant to FAO Rome, Italy

Biographical Information

Willem Robert van Hage is a researcher in the fields of information integration on the web. His main research topics in the past years are geospatio-temporal semantics, ontology alignment, and ontology learning. Since 2006 he has been a co-organizer of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative (OAEI), a collaborative benchmarking effort for the evaluation of ontology alignment techniques. He has led the development of the Simple Event Model (SEM), an ontology for the description of events. In the past years he has worked on the combination of Semantic Web reasoning (RDF(S), OWL) and geospatio-temporal reasoning, developing a spatiotemporal indexing package for the popular SWI-Prolog programming language, which has led to a best paper award at the EKAW 2010 conference.