Teaching

Current courses

Past courses
  • Advanced Database Systems: Master Course Computer Science [vist], 2001-2009
  • XML & Databases 2: Master Course Computer Science (joint effort with Maurice van Keulen) [vist], 2003-2009
  • Study advisor for the Computer Science master track Information Systems Engineering, 2004 - 2007
  • Bijzondere Onderwerpen Gegevensbanken (“Capita Selecta Databases'’), 2001 - 2003
  • Gedistribueerde databases en middlewaretechnologie, 2001 - 2003
  • Informatica en Taal (“Computer Science and Language'’), 2001

  • Lectures “Introduction to Multimedia'’, “Multimedia Databases'’, and “Multimedia Retrieval'’ in the course Advanced distributed multimedia database systems 1, 2004
  • Lectures “Data Models'’ and “Storage and Access Methods'’ in Databasetoepassingen ('’Database Applications'’), 2002
  • Lectures “Object-Oriented Databases'’ in Gegevensbanken, (“Databases'’), 2002
  • Lectures “Information Retrieval'’, “Markov models'’ and “Part-of-Speech tagging'’ in the course Taaltechnologie (“Language Technology'’), 1997 - 2004
  • Lectures “Language Technology for Information Retrieval'’ in the course Information Retrieval en Kennisbeheer, 1999 - 2003

Teaching information

Supervised Reports and Theses
  • Tom Nijmeijer, “Automatic Classification of Television Commercials”, Master’s thesis, University of Twente, 27 February 2008
  • Robert Zwerus, “Personal Information Management data: Akonadi - unifying PIM data for KDE'’, Master’s thesis, University of Twente, 28 November 2007 [Read more]
  • Hugo Siles Del Castillo, “Hybrid Content-based Collaborative Filtering Music Recommendations'’, Master’s Thesis, University of Twente, 6 November 2007
  • Ruud van Kessel, “HyvesScraper'’, Internship Report, done at Souki.com, Amersfoort, 5 November 2007
  • Koen Tinselboer, “The use of rare key indexing for distributed web search'’. Master’s Thesis, University of Twente, 19 September 2007
  • Theodoor Scholte, “Design and Implementation of a Collaborative Workflow Viewer'’. Internship Report, SAP Labs France, 14 September 2007
  • Julius Schwartzenberg, Pepijn Verlaan, Robert Lijklema, Michel Jansen, “UnitVD: a distributed collaborative media player'’, Design Project, University of Twente, 31 August 2007
  • Erwin de Moel, “StreetTivo: distributed metadata'’, Research Project, University of Twente, 21 August 2007
  • Roel van Os, ‘’Optimizing XML Information Retrieval Query Execution at the Physical Level'’. Master’s Thesis, University of Twente, 16 April 2007
  • Piet Schrijver, “Reverse engineering the way a web search engine ranks documents'’, Bachelor Thesis, University of Twente, Done at Gladior, 4 April 2007
  • Hugo Siles-del Castillo, “Diagnosis and Analysis of Errors in the Process of Circuits Provision at the GEISER System'’, Internship Report done at Telefonica, Madrid, Spain, 13 March 2007
  • Bram Smulders, “SQLbusRT: Real time data distribution and storage'’, Master’s Thesis, University of Twente, done at Imtech, Amersfoort, 24 February 2007
  • Gert Kienhuis, “Micorsoft Operations Framework implementatie binnen The Backbone, Master’s Thesis, University of Twente, done at The Backbone, Henglo, 12 February 2007
  • Robin Zagers, “Een beslissysteem voor Google Adwords'’, Master’s Thesis, University of Twente, done at Gladior, Enschede, 9 February 2007
  • Rik Schroer, “ICT ondersteuning bij Kennismanagement in een adviserende organisatie'’, Master’s Thesis, University of Twente, done at QConsult, Arnhem, 29 November 2006
  • Bas Meijerink, “Elise Text matching evaluation'’, Research Project Report, 12 July 2006
  • Sander van Loon, Bastiaan van den Berg, Vincent Groenhuis, Frank Zijlstra, André van Herk, “LEGO 3D Object Recognition'’, Design Project Report, 2 July 2006
  • Mark Klaas, Dennie Pasman, Rob Platenkamp, Irma Veldman, and Arnold Zanderink, “Personal Life Line'’, Design Project Report 6 March 2006
  • Ilse Fokker, “Het in kaart brengen van informatiestromen en procedures'’, Internship Report, Het Roessingh, Enschede, 7 February 2006
  • Gerard Graas Pero, “Automating ProRural'’, Internship Report, Universidad de Piura, Peru, 17 January 2006
  • Bram Wiekens, “Grid Access Methods and Applications'’, Master’s Thesis, University of Twente, done at Philips Research Eindhoven, 14 November 2005
  • Bart van Borssum Waalkes, “Managing Genome Databases'’, Master’s Thesis, University of Twente, 10 November 2005
  • Wouter Alink, “XIRAF - an XML Information Retrieval Approach to Digital Forensics'’, Master’s Thesis, University of Twente, done at CWI Amsterdam and the Nederlands Forensisch Instituut, 28 October 2005.
  • Maarten van Schagen, “Creating Open-class User Profiles from e-mail'’, Master’s Thesis, University of Twente, 29 August 2005
  • Rens Verhage, “Relational Approach to XPath Query Optimization'’, Master’s Thesis, University of Twente, 23 August 2005
  • Riccardo Corradin, Michael Angelo Meyer and Frank Neezen, “TUST: Tentamen Uitslag Systeem Twente'’, Design Project Report, 16 June 2005
  • Harold van Heerde, “eMarketingManager'’, Internship Report, Gladior Search Engine Positioning B.V., 6 May 2005
  • Wouter Alink, “Towards E-Learning at BSN International'’, Internship Report, Business School Netherlands South Africa, 14 April 2005
  • Young Woey Ho, “Teak Administratiesysteem'’, Internship Report, Soliditree, 5 April 2005
  • Bram Wiekens, “Astronomische Gegevens en Database Systemen: Parameterdistributie in Lofar verwerkend cluster'’, Internship Report, Astron, Dwingeloo, 21 January 2005
  • Cuong Bui, “Write-intensive applications with LDAP'’, Master’s Thesis done at OpenFortress, Enschede, University of Twente, September 2004
  • Wout Slakhorst, “Query optimalisation in on-line role playing games'’, Free Project Report, University of Twente, August 2004
  • Peter Spakman, “Email identification in helpdesk environments'’, Master’s Thesis done at Océ Technologies, Venlo, University of Twente, August 2004
  • Dennis Spenkelink, “Web Support System Dynamic Zones'’, Internship Report, Dynamic Zones, Enschede, April 2004
  • Robert van Bloem, “Interactieve Mediatheek'’, Internship Report, InDialoog, Enschede, January 2004
  • Peter Spakman, “Configuration Parameters for Dossier Management Systems'’, Internship Report, Océ Technologies, Venlo, October 2003
  • Dennis Vis, “Onderzoek naar Clienttechnologie en de beleidsmatige en organisatorische voorwaarden binnen de Rabobank Groep'’, Master’s Thesis, University of Twente, August 2003
  • Steven Jansen, “When preparation meets opportunity, een onderzoek naar de export aspiraties van Prodist BV'’, Master’s Thesis, University of Twente, August 2003
  • Lianne Brölman, “De aanpak van interne IT-projecten: Een onderzoek bij het Customer Contact Center FourPlus'’, Internship Report done at FourPlus, Hilversum, May 2003
  • Gerard van de Glind, “Centerlining Informatie Systeem'’, Internship Report done at IAMS Coevorden, May 2003
  • Lourens Veen, Ferdi Meijerink, Rinze Leenheer, and Frank Scholten, “Argus Webrobot'’, Design Project Report, University of Twente, March 2003
  • Tjerk Bijlsma, Arnoud ten Hoedt, Markus de Jong, Sander Timmerman, and Gregor Ybema, “Dl3B Lichtktrant'’, Design Project Report, University of Twente, March 2003
  • Weifeng Liang, “Information Retrieval from XML Documents'’, Master’s Thesis, University of Twente, January 2003
  • Rutger Poiesz, “XtraForce, Het analyseren en aanpassen van de informatievoorziening zodat deze klaar is voor remote-beheer'’, Internship Report, System Force Information Technology, Enter, December 2002
  • Klaas-Jan Winkel, “Verslag vrij project Pakbon'’, Free Project Report, March 2002
  • Bart Lirarakis, “Machine translation lexicon updating using translation memory data'’, Master’s Thesis, University of Twente (done at Esteam Athens, Greece), August 2001
  • Avi Arampatzis, “Adaptive and temporally-dependent document filtering'’, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Nijmegen, June 2001
  • Vilma Gricicute and Giedre Pajarskaite, “Part-of-speech tagging for Lithuanian'’, Internship Report, April 2001
  • Ielka van der Sluis, “Assigning timecodes to video-related textual documents'’, Master’s Thesis, University of Groningen, July 1999
  • Tjerk Hofmeier, Lars de Wit, Harry Biersteker and Bas ter Brugge, “The RABBIT-system: A remote and advanced bulletin board with intelligence'’, Design Project Report, March 1999
  • Jeroen van Luin, “Maximum entropy and information retrieval'’, Free Project Report, February 1999
  • Danny Lie, “Automatic summary generation: a natural language processing approach'’, Master’s Thesis, University of Twente, August 1998
  • Andries Ankersmit and Joost Reuzel, “Text-based Intelligent Systems'’, Free Project Report (for study-tour), April 1998