Maria-Hendrike Peetz

I am a PhD student at the Information and Language Processing Systems (ILPS) group at University of Amsterdam. I work on information retrieval of semi-structured, textual, data within the Foundations of XML (FoX) project. I received my M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Amsterdam in summer 2009 and my B.Sc. in Cognitive Science in Osnabrück.

Publications

Maria-Hendrike Peetz, Maarten Marx. Tree patterns with Full Text Search 13th WebDB co-located with SIGMOD/PODS, to appear Indianapolis, Indiana. 2010.
A. Nusselder, H. Peetz, A. Schuth, and M. Marx. Helping people to choose for whom to vote. a web information system for the 2009 european elections. In CIKM '09: Proceeding of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management, pages 2095-2096, New York, NY, USA, 2009. ACM.
SaHaRa: Discovering Entity-Topic Associations in Online News, K. Balog, M. de Rijke, R. Franz, H. Peetz, B. Brinkman. In 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009), October 2009.
Lopatka, M. & Peetz, M.H. (2009). Vibration Sensitive Keystroke Analysis. In Proceedings of the 18th Annual Belgian-Dutch Conference on Machine Learning, 75-80 pdf bibtex

Presentations

Tree patterns with Full Text Search. FoX Annual Event 2010, Amsterdam.

Organising Comittee

FoX Annual Event 2010, Amsterdam

School Stuff

find out about the members of the EU parliament, their profiles and promises
Query expansion with Wikipedia
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Learning appropriate Earprint Features for use as Biometric Traces
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Profiling Potential Targets of Neo-Nazi Terrorist Activity: Is YOUR city at risk?
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KAB00M! An explosion of colour!
pdf screenshots: 1 2 3 4 5 6
A Mean-shift Approach to Kernel Based Object Tracking
(with applications to natural and artificial color domains)
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B.Sc.Thesis: Using Suffix Trees for Text Categorization in Computational Linguistics
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My very first project work (with Thomas Göbel, done in 2005), which is a compilation of German child books between 1850 and 2000. If you would like to use it, don't hesitate to contact me.
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Life

I had a scholarship for piano when I was a teenager, but by now my favourite instrument is the flute. I try to continue playing on a regular basis in the Music School Amsterdam, but well, life doesn't always give you the chance. Traveling and broadening my mind is very important for me. I love the mountains, skiing in winter and hiking in summer, but the coast has its temptations as well - as a former member of the DLRG I was a passionate swimmer. Also, I spend more time cooking than eating! Currently, I have a second passion next to my PhD and that is Aikido.
I am now married to Thomas Göbel - it was the easiest yes ever.

Trivia

a (slightly chaotic) publication collection (Dez, 2008)

for women interested in "computer stuff": girl geek dinner

mail me: hpeetz at science dot uva dot nl

Pets are awesome! We have a cat, Miau-Tse-Tung. Before that we had rats (Gödel and Chomsky) and I had a cat (Teddy).

I am a vegetarian, and no, I don't eat fish.

My Mum works here: KGS Schneverdingen

Contact/Impressum