Nattiya Kanhabua


Assistant Professor

Machine Intelligence Group

Department of Computer Science

Aalborg University, Denmark

E-mail: nattiya (at) cs.aau.dkLinkedIn Twitter SlideShare



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Since September 2015, I am an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Denmark. Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the L3S Research Center under a supervision of Prof. Wolfgang Nejdl. My research interests are information retrieval, Web and social media mining, and Web archiving. In particular, I focus on the impacts of Web dynamics on search, e.g., terminology evolution, time-sensitive queries, and time-aware retrieval and ranking. At L3S, I was a work package leader of the EU-funded project ForgetIT. The goal is to develop approaches and technologies for intelligent preservation management, which keep the archived information concise, relevant and digestible by managed forgetting and contextualized remembering. I was also a member of ALEXANDRIA, an ERC Advanced Grant Project on Foundations for Temporal Retrieval, Exploration and Analytics in Web Archives. The ALEXANDRIA project aims to develop models, tools and techniques necessary to archive and index relevant parts of the Web, and to retrieve and explore this information in a meaningful way. In addition, I am interested in health-related search and analytics, e.g., early outbreak detection in social Web data such as Twitter messages. This work on medicine and healthcare applications is a part of the finished EU project Medical Ecosystem: Personalized Event-based Surveillance (M-Eco).

My PhD work was conducted under a supervision of Prof. Kjetil Nørvåg at the Data and Information Management research group, Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). The PhD study is a formal part of LongRec - Records Management over Decades. LongRec was a research project on persistent, reliable and trustworthy long-term archival of digital documents, with emphasis on the availability and use of documents. LongRec was initiated and coordinated by DNV, and performed in cooperation with NTNU, NR, and a number of business partners, with partial funding from the Norwegian Research Council.

On 24th of February 2012, I completed the trial lecture and thesis defense thus being awarded the PhD degree. The evaluation committee was composed of Prof. Franciska de Jong, University of Twente, The Netherlands, Prof. Fabio Crestani, University of Lugano, Switzerland, and Assoc. Prof. Trond Aalberg, NTNU, Norway.


Ph.D. Thesis


     Time-aware Approaches to Information Retrieval

       Trondheim, February 2012

       ISBN 978-82-471-3265-4

       download [pdf (2.2 MB), slides, bibtex]


     Trial lecture: Supporting Exploration and Serendipity in Information Retrieval

       Disputation: Trondheim, 24 February 2012

       download [slides]


Research Interests


Research Projects


Current Projects


ALEXANDRIA

ForgetIT

Member of Finished Projects


Publications (dblp, Google Scholar, BibSonomy)


    Temporal Information Retrieval New publication

       Foundations and Trends® in Information Retrieval

       Volume 9, Issue 2, pp 91-208, 2015

       http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/1500000043

       download [pdf (1.8 MB), slides, bibtex]


Temporal Retrieval and Analytics

  1. Jaroslav Cechak, Philip Thruesen, Blandine Seznec, Roel Castano, and Nattiya Kanhabua, To Link or Not to Link: Ranking Hyperlinks in Wikipedia using Collective Attention, (To appear) Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData'2016), Washington DC, USA, 2016. [bibtex, pdf, slides]New publication
  2. Nattiya Kanhabua, Huamin Ren and Thomas B. Moeslund, Learning Dynamic Classes of Events using Stacked Multilayer Perceptron Networks, Proceedings of the SIGIR 2016 Workshop on Neural Information Retrieval (Neu-IR'2016), Pisa, Italy, 2016. [bibtex, pdf, slides]New publication
  3. Nattiya Kanhabua and Avishek Anand, Temporal Information Retrieval (tutorial), Proceedings of the 39th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR'2016), Pisa, Italy, 2016. [bibtex, pdf, slides]New publication
  4. Nattiya Kanhabua, Philipp Kemkes, Wolfgang Nejdl, Tu Ngoc Nguyen, Felipe Reis and Nam Khanh Tran, How to Search the Internet Archive Without Indexing It, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL'2016), Hanover, Germany, September, 2016. [bibtex, pdf, slides]New publication
  5. Nattiya Kanhabua, Roi Blanco and Kjetil Nørvåg, Temporal Information Retrieval, Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval, Volume 9, Issue 2, 2015. [bibtex, pdf, slides]
  6. Tu Ngoc Nguyen, Nattiya Kanhabua, Claudia Niederée and Xiaofei Zhu, A Time-aware Random Walk Model for Finding Important Documents in Web Archives, Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR'2015), Santiago, Chile, August, 2015. [bibtex, pdf, slides]
  7. Nattiya Kanhabua, Tu Ngoc Nguyen and Wolfgang Nejdl, Learning to Detect Event-Related Queries for Web Search, Proceedings of the 5th Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb'2015) at WWW'2015, Florence, Italy, May, 2015. [bibtex, pdf, slides, dataset]
  8. Tu Ngoc Nguyen, Nattiya Kanhabua, Wolfgang Nejdl and Claudia Niederée, Mining Relevant Time for Query Subtopics in Web Archives, Proceedings of the 5th Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb'2015) at WWW'2015, Florence, Italy, May, 2015. [bibtex, pdf, slides]
  9. Nattiya Kanhabua and Wolfgang Nejdl, On the Value of Temporal Anchor Texts in Wikipedia, Proceedings of SIGIR 2014 Workshop on Temporal, Social and Spatially-aware Information Access (#TAIA2014), Gold Coast, Australia, July, 2014. [bibtex, pdf, slides]
  10. Dimitrios Kotsakos, Theodoros Lappas, Dimitrios Kotzias, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Nattiya Kanhabua and Kjetil Nørvåg, A Burstiness-aware Approach for Document Dating, Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR'2014), Gold Coast, Australia, July, 2014. [bibtex, pdf, poster]
  11. Tu Ngoc Nguyen and Nattiya Kanhabua, Leveraging Dynamic Query Subtopics for Time-aware Search Result Diversification, Proceedings of the 36th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval (ECIR'2014), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April, 2014. [bibtex, pdf, slides, dataset]
  12. Nattiya Kanhabua and Kjetil Nørvåg, Estimating Query Difficulty for News Prediction Retrieval (poster), Proceedings of the 21th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'2012), Maui, Hawaii, October, 2012. [bibtex, pdf, poster]
  13. Nattiya Kanhabua and Kjetil Nørvåg, Learning to Rank Search Results for Time-Sensitive Queries (poster), Proceedings of the 21th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'2012), Maui, Hawaii, October, 2012. [bibtex, pdf, poster]
  14. Nattiya Kanhabua, Klaus Berberich and Kjetil Nørvåg, Learning to Select a Time-aware Retrieval Model (poster), Proceedings of the 35th ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR'2012), Portland, Oregon, USA, August 2012. [bibtex, pdf, poster]
  15. Nattiya Kanhabua, Time-aware Approaches to Information Retrieval (dissertation abstract), SIGIR Forum, 46(1):85, June 2012. [bibtex, pdf, slides]
  16. Nattiya Kanhabua, Roi Blanco and Michael Matthews, Ranking Related News Predictions, Proceedings of the 34th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR'2011), Beijing, China, July 2011. [bibtex, pdf, slides, dataset]
  17. Nattiya Kanhabua and Kjetil Nørvåg, Time-based Query Performance Predictors (poster), Proceedings of the 34th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR'2011), Beijing, China, July 2011. [bibtex, pdf, poster]
  18. Nattiya Kanhabua and Kjetil Nørvåg, A Comparison of Time-aware Ranking Methods (poster), Proceedings of the 34th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR'2011), Beijing, China, July 2011. [bibtex, pdf, poster, extended version]
  19. Nattiya Kanhabua and Kjetil Nørvåg, Determining Time of Queries for Re-ranking Search Results, Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries 2010 (ECDL'2010), Glasgow, Scotland, UK, September 2010. [bibtex, pdf, slides]
  20. Nattiya Kanhabua and Kjetil Nørvåg, Using Temporal Language Models for Document Dating (demo paper), Proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD'2009), Bled, Slovenia, September 2009. [bibtex, pdf, poster, demo]
  21. Nattiya Kanhabua, Exploiting temporal information in retrieval of archived documents (doctoral consortium), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR'2009), Boston, Massachusetts, July 2009. [bibtex, pdf, slides]
  22. Nattiya Kanhabua and Kjetil Nørvåg, Improving Temporal Language Models For Determining Time of Non-Timestamped Documents, Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries 2008 (ECDL'2008), Aarhus, Denmark, September 2008. [bibtex, pdf, slides]

Digital Archives by Managed Forgetting and Contextualized Remembering

  1. Tuan Tran, Sven Schwarz, Claudia Niederée, Heiko Maus and Nattiya Kanhabua, The Forgotten Needle in My Collections: Task-Aware Ranking of Documents in Semantic Information Space, Proceedings of the first ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR'2016), Carrboro, NC, USA, 2016. [bibtex, pdf]New publication
  2. Claudia Niederée, Nattiya Kanhabua, F. Gallo, and R. H. Logie, Forgetful Digital Memory: Towards Brain-Inspired Long-Term Data and Information Management, SIGMOD Record, Volume 44, Issue 2, pp. 41-46, June 2015. [bibtex, pdf]
  3. Tuan Tran, Claudia Niederée, Nattiya Kanhabua, Ujwal Gadiraju, and Avishek Anand, Balancing Novelty and Salience: Adaptive Learning to Rank Entities for Timeline Summarization of High-impact Events, Proceedings of the 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'2015), Melbourne, Australia, October, 2015. [bibtex, pdf]
  4. Mingxing Fu, Andrea Ceroni, Vassilios Solachidis, Claudia Niederée, Olga Papadopoulou, Nattiya Kanhabua and Vasileios Mezaris, Learning Personalized Expectation--oriented Photo Selection Models for Personal Photo Collections, Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) Workshop on Human Memory-Inspired Multimedia Organization and Preservation (HMMP'15), Italy, July, 2015. [bibtex, pdf]
  5. Andrea Ceroni, Vassilios Solachidis, Mingxin Fu, Nattiya Kanhabua, Olga Papadopoulou, Claudia Niederée and Vasileios Mezaris, Investigating Human Behaviors in Selecting Personal Photos to Preserve Memories, Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) Workshop on Human Memory-Inspired Multimedia Organization and Preservation (HMMP'15), Turin, Italy, July, 2015. [bibtex, pdf]
  6. Andrea Ceroni, Vassilios Solachidis, Claudia Niederée, Olga Papadopoulou, Nattiya Kanhabua and Vasileios Mezaris, To Keep or not to Keep: An Expectation-oriented Photo Selection Method for Personal Photo Collections, Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR'2015), Shanghai, China, June, 2015. [bibtex, pdf]
  7. Nam Khanh Tran, Andrea Ceroni, Nattiya Kanhabua and Claudia Niederée, Time-travel Translator: Automatically Contextualizing News Articles (demo), Proceedings of the 24th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'2015), Florence, Italy, May, 2015. [bibtex, pdf, demo]
  8. Nam Khanh Tran, Andrea Ceroni, Nattiya Kanhabua and Claudia Niederée, Back to the Past: Supporting Interpretations of Forgotten Stories by Time-aware Re-Contextualization, Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM'2015), China, February, 2015. [bibtex, pdf]
  9. Nattiya Kanhabua, Tu Ngoc Nguyen and Claudia Niederée, What Triggers Human Remembering of Events? A Large-Scale Analysis of Catalysts for Collective Memory in Wikipedia, Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Libraries (DL'2014), London, UK, September, 2014. [bibtex, pdf, slides]
  10. Andrea Ceroni, Nam Khanh Tran, Nattiya Kanhabua and Claudia Niederée, Bridging Temporal Context Gaps using Time-Aware Re-Contextualization, Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR'2014), Goal Coast, Australia, July, 2014. [bibtex, pdf]
  11. Tuan Tran, Mihai Georgescu, Xiaofei Zhu and Nattiya Kanhabua, Analysing the Duration of Trending Topics in Twitter using Wikipedia (poster), Proceedings of the ACM Web Science 2014 Conference (WebSci'2014), Bloomington, USA, June, 2014. [bibtex, pdf]
  12. Kaweh Djafari Naini, Ricardo Kawase, Nattiya Kanhabua and Claudia Niederée, Characterizing High-impact Features for Content Retention in Social Web Applications (poster), Proceedings of the 23rd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'2014), Seoul, Korea, April, 2014. [bibtex, pdf]
  13. Nattiya Kanhabua, Claudia Niederée and Wolf Siberski, Towards Concise Preservation by Managed Forgetting: Research Issues and Case Study, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES'2013), Lisbon, Portugal, September, 2013. [bibtex, pdf, slides]
  14. Nattiya Kanhabua and Claudia Niederée, Preservation and Forgetting: Friends or Foes?, In the First International Workshop on Archiving Community Memories (in conjunction with iPRES'2013), Lisbon, Portugal, September, 2013. [bibtex, pdf, slides]

Event and Entity Evolution Detection

  1. Yiwei Zhou, Nattiya Kanhabua and Alexandra Cristea, Real-time Timeline Summarisation for High-impact Events in Twitter, Proceedings of the 22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'2016), the Hague, the Netherlands, August, 2016. [bibtex, pdf, slides]New publication
  2. Søren Ranneries, Mads Kalør, Sofie Nielsen, Lukas Dalgaard, Lasse Christensen and Nattiya Kanhabua, Wisdom of the Local Crowd: Detecting Local Events using Social Media Data (poster), Proceedings of the 8th International ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci'2016), Hanover, Germany, May, 2016. [bibtex, pdf, poster]New publication
  3. Giang Binh Tran, Tuan A. Tran, Nam-Khanh Tran, Mohammad Alrifai and Nattiya Kanhabua, Leveraging Learning To Rank in an Optimization Framework for Timeline Summarization, In SIGIR 2013 Workshop on Time-aware Information Access (TAIA'2013). [bibtex, pdf, slides, dataset]
  4. Mihai Georgescu, Dang Duc Pham, Nattiya Kanhabua, Sergej Zerr, Stefan Siersdorfer and Wolfgang Nejdl, Temporal Summarization of Event-Related Updates in Wikipedia (demo), Proceedings of the 22nd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'2013), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May, 2013. [bibtex, pdf, slides, demo]
  5. Mihai Georgescu, Nattiya Kanhabua, Daniel Krause, Wolfgang Nejdl and Stefan Siersdorfer, Extracting Event-Related Information from Article Updates in Wikipedia, Proceedings of the 35th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval (ECIR'2013), Moscow, Russia, March, 2013. [bibtex, pdf, slides, dataset]
  6. Nina Tahmasebi, Gerhard Gossen, Nattiya Kanhabua, Helge Holzmann and Thomas Risse, NEER: An Unsupervised Method for Named Entity Evolution Recognition, Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'2012), Mumbai, India, December, 2012. [bibtex, pdf, dataset]
  7. Nattiya Kanhabua, Sara Romano and Avaré Stewart, Identifying Relevant Temporal Expressions for Real-world Events, In SIGIR 2012 Workshop on Time-aware Information Access (TAIA'2012), Portland, Oregon, USA, August 2012. [bibtex, pdf, slides, dataset]
  8. Nattiya Kanhabua and Kjetil Nørvåg, QUEST: Query Expansion using Synonyms over Time (demo paper), Proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD'2010), Barcelona, Spain, September 2010. [bibtex, pdf, poster, demo]
  9. Nattiya Kanhabua and Kjetil Nørvåg, Exploiting Time-based Synonyms in Searching Document Archives, Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL'2010), Brisbane, Australia, June 2010. [bibtex, pdf, slides]

Social Media Mining for Medicine

  1. Avaré Stewart, Nattiya Kanhabua, Sara Romano, Ernesto Diaz, Wolf Siberski and Wolfgang Nejdl, Why Is It Difficult to Detect Outbreaks in Twitter?, Proceedings of SIGIR Workshop on Health Search and Discovery: Helping Users and Advancing Medicine (HSD'2013), Dublin, Ireland, August, 2013. [bibtex, pdf, slides]
  2. Nattiya Kanhabua and Wolfgang Nejdl, Understanding the Diversity of Tweets in the Time of Outbreaks, Proceedings of the First International Web Observatory Workshop (WOW'2013) at WWW'2013, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May, 2013. [bibtex, pdf, slides]
  3. George Tsatsaronis, Iraklis Varlamis, Nattiya Kanhabua and Kjetil Nørvåg, Temporal Classifiers for Predicting the Expansion of Medical Subject Headings, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing'2013), Samos, Greece, March, 2013. [bibtex, pdf, dataset]
  4. Nattiya Kanhabua, Sara Romano, Avaré Stewart and Wolfgang Nejdl, Supporting Temporal Analytics for Health Related Events in Microblogs (demo), Proceedings of the 21th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'2012), Maui, Hawaii, October, 2012. [bibtex, pdf, poster, demo]

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Aalborg University


Leibniz Universität Hannover

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Ph.D. Students (Co-mentor at LUH)

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