News
Recent (short) paper acceptances at UMAP 2013, SIGIR 2013 and EC-TEL 2013.
Until the end of
June 2013, it is still possible to sign up for the MediaEval 2013 Placing Task benchmark.
If you are interested, take a look at our task overview paper which describes the task
& data set.
WSDM
2014, where I help out as proceedings chair, will take place in
New York. Submission deadline is August 26, 2013, the call for papers is online!
I am tweeting (@CharlotteHase)
About me
I am an Assistant Professor at the Web Information Systems group,
Delft University of Technology.
Between 2011 and 2012 I
worked as Postdoc in the same group, conducting research in the
scope of the ImREAL project. 
I received my
PhD from the University of Twente, where I worked in the Human Media
Interaction group under the supervision of Franciska de Jong and Djoerd
Hiemstra.
The Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg in
Germany was my home during my undergraduate years as a student in
computer science.
My research interests include query
performance prediction (the topic of my PhD thesis [abstract]), IR for specific user groups,
personalization and false memories in search.
Contact
TU Delft - EWI/ST/WIS
PO Box 5031
2600 GA Delft
The Netherlands
Office: HB 08.100
Email: c.hauff[at]tudelft.nl or claudia.hauff[at]gmail.com
Teaching
- Lecturer of the 2nd year BSc course Big Data Processing (Nov. 2013)
- Lecturer (50%) of the 1st year BSc course Web and Database Technology (Nov. 2013)
- Lecturer of the MSc course Information Retrieval (Feb. 2012)
Thesis supervision
If you are interested in a Master thesis project in the information retrieval, have a look at the ongoing benchmark campaigns - often a good starting point for finding a topic in information retrieval:
We also have industry contacts, in case you are interested in working at a company during your thesis.
Students I am currently supervising are researching a range of topics related to information retrieval including mobile re-finding behavior, author identification, spelling correction and query translation.
IR Visualizations
- A visualization of an automatic retrieval system evaluation technique and its application on more than 20 TREC tasks.
- A visualization that shows the unique contributions of TREC runs to the relevance assessment pool.
- A visualization of query difficulty.
Publications [DBLP] [Google Scholar]
2013
Gudrun Wesiak, Adam Moore, Christina M. Steiner, Claudia Hauff,
Conor Gaffney, Declan Dagger, Dietrich Albert, Fionn Kelly, Gary
Donohoe, Gordon Power and Owen Conlan, Affective
Metacognitive Scaffolding and User Model Augmentation for
Experiential Training Simulators: A Follow-up Study , accepted as
a full paper at EC-TEL 2013 
Adam Moore, Gudrun Wesiak, Christina M. Steiner, Claudia Hauff,
Declan Dagger, Gary Donohoe and Owen Conlan, Utilizing
social neworks for user model priming: user attitudes, accepted as
a late breaking result paper at UMAP 2013 
Claudia Hauff, A Study on the Accuracy of Flickr's Geotag
Data, accepted as a short paper at SIGIR 2013 [pdf preprint] [annotation data]
Christophe Deloo and Claudia Hauff, Exploiting Semantic
Relatedness Measures for Multi-label Classifier Evaluation,
accepted as research contribution at the Dutch-Belgian IR Workshop 2013 [pdf] [proceedings link] 
Ke Tao, Fabian Abel, Claudia Hauff, Geert-Jan Houben and Ujwal
Gadiraju, Groundhog Day: Near-Duplicate Detection on Twitter,
accepted as full paper at WWW 2013 (Web Engineering track) [slides]
2012
Claudia Hauff and Gerald Friedland, Brave New Task: User
Account Matching, MediaEval:
Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation, 2012 [pdf] [slides]
Claudia Hauff, Matthias Hagen, Anna Beyer and Benno Stein, Towards
realistic known-item topics for the ClueWeb, IIiX 2012, pp. 274-277, 2012 [pdf]
Claudia Hauff and Geert-Jan Houben, Placing images on the
world map: a microblog-based enrichment approach, SIGIR 2012, pp.
691-700, 2012 [pdf] [slides]
Fabian Abel, Claudia Hauff, Geert-Jan Houben and Ke Tao, Leveraging
User Modeling on the Social Web with Linked Data, ICWE 2012, pp.
378-385, 2012 [slides
(Ke Tao)]
Ke Tao, Fabian Abel, Claudia Hauff and Geert-Jan Houben, Twinder:
a search engine for Twitter streams, ICWE 2012, pp. 153-168, 2012
[slides
(Ke Tao)]
Djoerd Hiemstra and Claudia Hauff, Brute Force Information
Retrieval Experiments using MapReduce, ERCIM News 89, pp. 31-32,
2012 [pdf]
[link]
Fabian Abel, Claudia Hauff, Geert-Jan Houben, Ke Tao and Richard
Stronkman, Twitcident: Fighting Fire with Information from
Social Web Streams, WWW '12 Companion, pp. 305-308, 2012 [link to
paper] [link
to website] 
Ke Tao, Fabian Abel, Claudia Hauff and Geert-Jan Houben, What
makes a tweet relevant for a topic?, WWW 2012 workshop "Making
Sense of Microposts" [proceedings]
Fabian Abel, Claudia Hauff, Geert-Jan Houben, Ke Tao and Richard
Stronkman, Semantics + Filtering + Search = Twitcident:
Exploring Information in Social Web Streams, ACM Hypertext, pp.
285-294, 2012 [link]
Claudia Hauff and Geert-Jan Houben, Serendipitous Browsing:
Stumbling through Wikipedia, Searching 4Fun!
workshop (co-located with ECIR) [pdf]
Claudia Hauff and Geert-Jan Houben, Geo-Location Estimation
of Flickr Images: Social Web Based Enrichment, ECIR 2012, pp. 85-96, 2012 [pdf] [slides]
2011
Ke Tao, Fabian Abel and Claudia Hauff, WISTUD at TREC 2011:
Microblog Track [pdf]
Claudia Hauff and Geert-Jan Houben, WISTUD at MediaEval
2011: Placing Task, MediaEval
2011 [pdf]
Claudia Hauff and Geert-Jan Houben, Deriving Knowledge
Profiles from Twitter, EC-TEL 2011, pp. 139-152, 2011 [pdf] [slides]
Claudia Hauff and Geert-Jan Houben, Cognitive Processes in
Query Generation, ICTIR 2011, pp. 176-187, 2011 [pdf] [slides] [link]
Claudia Hauff and Dolf Trieschnigg, Adding Emotions to
Pictures, ICTIR 2011, pp. 364-367, 2011 [pdf] [poster] [link]
Claudia Hauff and Geert-Jan Houben, Simulating Memory Recall
in Personal Search, EPS 2011 (Evaluating Personal Search
Workshop), 2011 [link
to proceedings]
Fabian Abel, Ilknur Celik, Claudia Hauff, Laura Hollink and
Geert-Jan Houben, U-Sem: Semantic Enrichment, User Modeling
and Mining Usage Data on the Social Web, 1st International
Workshop on Usage Analysis and the Web of Data (USEWOD2011), short
paper, 2011 [pdf]
Dolf Trieschnigg and Claudia Hauff, Classic Children's
Literature - Difficult to Read?, ECIR 2011, pp. 691 - 694, 2011 [link]
2010
Djoerd Hiemstra and Claudia Hauff, MapReduce for
experimental search, TREC 2010 [link]
Claudia Hauff and Dolf Trieschnigg, Enhancing Access to
Classic Children's Literature, BooksOnline
2010 workshop (co-located with CIKM) [pdf] [link]
The proposed project was awarded a
seed fund, sponsored by Microsoft Research. [Workshop
report]
Claudia Hauff, Leif Azzopardi and Diane Kelly, A Comparison
of User and System Performance Predictions, CIKM 2010, pp. 979 -
988, 2010 [link]
Djoerd Hiemstra and Claudia Hauff, MapReduce for information
retrieval evaluation: "Let's quickly test this on 12 TB of data",
CLEF 2010, pp. 64 - 69, 2010 [pdf]
Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, Claudia Hauff and C.J. van
Rijsbergen, Estimating Interference in the QPRP for Subtopic
Retrieval, SIGIR 2010, pp. 741-742, 2010 [link]
Claudia Hauff, Diane Kelly, Leif Azzopardi and Franciska de Jong, Query
Quality: User Ratings and System Predictions, SIGIR 2010, pp.
743-744, 2010 [link],
[poster], [pdf]
Claudia Hauff and Franciska de Jong, Retrieval System
Evaluation: Automatic Evaluation versus Incomplete Judgments,
SIGIR 2010, pp. 863-864, 2010 [link], [pdf]
Claudia Hauff, Leif Azzopardi, Djoerd Hiemstra and Franciska de
Jong, Query Performance Prediction: Evaluation Contrasted
with Effectiveness, ECIR 2010, pp. 204-216, 2010 [pdf], [poster], [link]
Claudia Hauff, Djoerd Hiemstra, Leif Azzopardi and Franciska de
Jong, A Case for Automatic System Evaluation, ECIR 2010, pp.
153-165, 2010 [pdf],
[slides], [link]
2009
Claudia Hauff, Djoerd Hiemstra, Franciska de Jong and Leif
Azzopardi, Relying on topic subsets for system ranking
estimation, CIKM 2009, pp. 1859-1862 [link]
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Vanessa Murdock and Claudia Hauff, Efficiency
trade-offs in two-tier web search systems, SIGIR 2009, pp.
163-170, 2009 [link]
Claudia Hauff and Leif Azzopardi, When is Query Performance
Prediction Effective?, SIGIR 2009, pp. 829-830, 2009 [link], [pdf]
Claudia Hauff, Leif Azzopardi and Djoerd Hiemstra, The
Combination and Evaluation of Query Performance Prediction Methods,
ECIR 2009, pp. 301-312, 2009 [pdf],
[slides]
2008
A. Overwijk, D. Nguyen, C. Hauff, R.B. Trieschnigg, D. Hiemstra,
F.M.G. de Jong, On the Evaluation of Snippet Selection for
Information Retrieval, LNCS - CLEF 2008 [pdf] [link]
D. Nguyen, A.Overwijk, C.Hauff, R.B. Trieschnigg, D. Hiemstra,
F.M.G. de Jong, WikiTranslate: Query Translation for
Cross-lingual Information Retrieval using only Wikipedia, LNCS -
CLEF 2008 [pdf] [link]
Claudia Hauff, Query Difficulty for Digital Libraries,
presented at the ECDL 2008 Doctoral Consortium, published in the
Fall 2009 issue of the TCDL Bulletin (Volume 5, Issue 2) [pdf]
Claudia Hauff, Djoerd Hiemstra and Franciska de Jong, A
Survey of Pre-Retrieval Query Performance Predictors, CIKM 2008,
pp. 1419-1420, 2008 [link]
Claudia Hauff, Vanessa Murdock and Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Improved
Query Difficulty Prediction for the Web, CIKM 2008, pp. 439-448,
2008 [link]
2007
R. Aly, C. Hauff, W. Heeren, D. Hiemstra, F. de Jong, R. Ordelman,
T. Verschoor and A. de Vries, The Lowlands team at TRECVID
2007, TRECVID 2007 [pdf]
Djoerd Hiemstra, Claudia Hauff, Franciska de Jong and Wessel Kraaij, SIGIR's 30th anniversary: an analysis of trends in IR research and the topology of its community, ACM SIGIR Forum, Vol. 41, No. 2 [link]
Claudia Hauff, Robin Aly and Djoerd Hiemstra, The
Effectiveness of Concept Based Search for Video Retrieval, WIR
2007 [pdf]
Claudia Hauff, Dolf Trieschnigg and Henning Rode, University
of Twente at GeoCLEF 2006: geofiltered document retrieval, CLEF
2006, LNCS 4730, pp. 958-961, 2007 [link]
2006
Claudia Hauff and Andreas Nürnberger, Utilizing
scale-free networks to support the search for scientific
publications, Proc. of the Dutch Belgian Workshop in Information
Retrieval (DIR'06), 2006 [pdf]
2005
Claudia Hauff and Andreas Nürnberger, On the use of
scale-free networks for information network modelling, Proc. of
1st European Symposium on Nature-inspired Smart Information
Systems, 2005 [pdf]
Claudia Hauff and Leif Azzopardi, Age dependent document
priors in link structure analysis, 27th European Conference on IR
Research (ECIR'05), 2005 [pdf]