Ir. Wessel Kraaij is a senior researcher working for TNO TPD
since 1995. He has been leading several applied research projects
in the areas of information retrieval, language technology and
content management. After receiving his Msc (in Electrical Engineering)
he worked for five years as a research assistent at the former
Institute of Language Technology and AI (Univ of Tilburg) on projects
related to dialogue systems. Since 1994, he has worked in the
area of information retrieval and has a wide experience with IR
related applications: cross-language information retrieval, topic
detection and tracking, spoken document retrieval web retrieval
and summarisation. He is co-coordinator of the annual NIST TRECVID
evaluation workshop on video retrieval. He will defend his PhD
thesis on the use of language technology in IR early 2004.
Kraaij @ TPD.TNO.NL