Introducing myself

"Hi, my name is Max Hinne and I studied Information Science!"

"Hi Max", the indifferent crowd replied.

After finishing my Master thesis for Information Science (see the paper on Web graph communities below) I decided to do a Master's in Computer Science as well. In the meanwhile I'm keeping my eyes open for an interesting PhD position. My professional interests include: Information Retrieval and, more general, Web Science. I am particularly interested in the Web graph or similar networks.

Also, I am a member of the Information Foraging Lab at our Digital Security institute. 

I can be reached at mhinne[at]sci.ru.nl.

Publications

• Maarten van der Heijden, Max Hinne, Suzan Verberne, Eduard Hoenkamp, Theo van der Weide and Wessel Kraaij (2010). When is a query a question? Reconstructing wh-requests from ad hoc-queries. In: Proceedings of the Query Representation and Understanding workshop (QRU) in conjunction with SIGIR 2010, p.p. 17-20.
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• Suzan Verberne, Max Hinne, Maarten van der Heijden, Eva D'hondt, Wessel Kraaij and Theo van der Weide (2009). Annotating URLs with query terms: what factors predict reliable annotations? In: Proceedings of the Understanding the User workshop (UIIR) in conjunction with SIGIR 2009.
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• Max Hinne, Maarten van der Heijden, Wessel Kraaij, Stephan Raaijmakers, Suzan Verberne and Theo van der Weide (2009). Annotation of URLs: more than the sum of parts. In: Proceedings of SIGIR 2009, Boston, MA, USA, p.p. 632-633.
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• Maarten van der Heijden, Max Hinne, Wessel Kraaij, Suzan Verberne and Theo van der Weide (2009). Using query logs and click data to create improved document descriptions. In: Proceedings of the 2009 workshop on Web Search Click Data, New York, NY, USA, p.p. 64-67.
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• Max Hinne (2007). Local Identification of Web Graph Communities. In: Proceedings of ICTIR 2007, Budapest, Hungary, p.p. 261-278.
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Stuff

• Information Foraging Lab, an interdisciplinary collaboration of researchers from the Radboud University Nijmegen. Current research interests include: Information Retrieval, Text Mining, Digital Security, Speech and Speaker Recognition, etc.
• Network Analysis
  Short and global introduction to (Social) Network Analysis, part of the Capita Selecta course in the Master Information Science [ppt].
• Blogbeat, a ranking of the Dutch blogosphere.
• LibraryThing. A list of books I've read, mostly in recent years.

A personal note

Besides my professional interests I like to read historic novels (e.g. "In a Dark Wood Wandering", by Hella S. Haasse, or "Mists of Avalon", by Marion Bradley), epic fantasy (e.g. "The Malazan Book of the Fallen", by Steven Erikson, or "The Prince of Nothing", by Scott R. Bakker) or about general philosophical or scientific topics (e.g. "The God Delusion", by Richard Dawkins). I also tend to play online shooters too much :-)