Journal papers
Book chapters
Refereed papers in A-level conference proceedings
Refereed papers in B-level conference proceedings
Refereed papers in workshop proceedings
Publications for a general audience

Journal papers

• Suzan Verberne, Emiel Krahmer, Iris Hendrickx, Sander Wubben, Antal van den Bosch (2017). Creating a reference data set for the summarization of discussion forum threads. Language Resources and Evaluation, (), 1-23. doi 10.1007/s10579-017-9389-4
• Suzan Verberne, Lou Boves, Antal van den Bosch (2016). Information access in the art history domain: Evaluating a federated search engine for Rembrandt research. Digital Humanities Quarterly, Volume 10, number 4, October 2016
• Suzan Verberne, Maya Sappelli, Djoerd Hiemstra, Wessel Kraaij (2016). Evaluation and analysis of term scoring methods for term extraction. Information Retrieval, Springer. doi:10.1007/s10791-016-9286-2
• Maya Sappelli, Suzan Verberne, Wessel Kraaij (2016). Adapting the interactive activation model for context recognition and identification. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TIIS). doi:10.1145/2873067 (Impact factor: 1.070)
• Maya Sappelli, Gabriella Pasi, Suzan Verberne, Maaike de Boer, Wessel Kraaij (2016). Assessing e-mail intent and tasks in e-mail messages. Information Sciences, Volumes 358–359, 1 September 2016, Pages 1–17. Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/ j.ins.2016.03.002 (Impact factor: 4.038)
• Maya Sappelli, Suzan Verberne, Wessel Kraaij (2016). Evaluation of context-aware recommendation systems for information re-finding. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST). (Impact factor: 1.846)
• Suzan Verberne, Eva D’hondt, Antal van den Bosch, Maarten Marx (2014). Automatic thematic classification of election manifestos. Information Processing & Management, Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2014.02.006 (Impact Factor: 1.388)
• Eva D’hondt, Suzan Verberne, Nelleke Oostdijk, Jean Beney, Cornelis Koster, Lou Boves (2014). Dealing with temporal variation in patent categorization. Information Retrieval, Springer. Volume 17, Issue 5 (2014), Page 520-544. doi: 10.1007/ s10791-014-9239-6 (Impact Factor: 0.630)
• Suzan Verberne, Maarten van der Heijden, Max Hinne, Maya Sappelli, Saskia Koldijk, Eduard Hoenkamp and Wessel Kraaij (2013). Reliability and Validity of Query Intent Assessments. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Volume 64, Issue 11, pages 2224–2237 (Impact Factor: 2.081)
• Eva D’Hondt, Suzan Verberne, Kees Koster, Lou Boves (2013). Text Representations for Patent Classification. Computational Linguistics, Vol. 39, No. 3, pages 755-775 (Impact Factor: 0.721)
• Eva D’Hondt, Niklas Weber, Suzan Verberne, Kees Koster, Lou Boves (2013). Using skipgrams and POS-based feature selection for patent classification. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal, Vol. 2, pages 52-70
• Suzan Verberne, Hans van Halteren, Daphne Theijssen, Stephan Raaijmakers, Lou Boves (2011). Learning to Rank for Why-Question Answering. Information Retrieval, Volume 14, number 2, pp. 107-132, DOI 10.1007 / s10791-010-9136-6. (Impact Factor: 0.696)
• Suzan Verberne, Lou Boves, Nelleke Oostdijk, Peter-Arno Coppen (2010). What is not in the Bag of Words for Why-QA? Computational Linguistics, Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 229-245. (Impact Factor: 2.656)
• Suzan Verberne, Lou Boves, Nelleke Oostdijk, Peter-Arno Coppen (2007). Discourse-based answering of why-questions. In Traitement Automatique des Langues 2007 Volume 47 Numéro 2: Discours et document: traitements automatiques, p.p. 21-41

Book chapters

• Eva D’hondt , Suzan Verberne, Nelleke Oostdijk, Lou Boves (2017). Patent Classification on Subgroup Level Using Balanced Winnow. In Current Challenges in Patent Information Retrieval. Volume 37 of The Information Retrieval Series pp 299-324
• Cornelis H.A. Koster, Jean Beney, Suzan Verberne, Merijn Vogel (2011). Phrase-based Document Categorization. Katja Mayer, Mihai Lupu and John Tait (eds.): Current Challenges in Patent Information Retrieval, The Information Retrieval Series, 2011, Volume 29, Part 4, 263-286, doi: 10.1007/ 978-3-642-19231-9_13, Springer.

Refereed papers in A-level conference proceedings

(A-level conferences are conferences with high impact, especially ECIR, SIGIR, EACL, ACL)

• Natalie Widmann and Suzan Verberne (2017). Graph-based semi-supervised learning for text classification. To appear in the proceedings of The 3rd ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2017).
• Suzan Verberne, Bram Arends, Arjen de Vries, Wessel Kraaij (2016): Longitudinal navigation log data on a large web domain. Proceedings of the 39th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research & development in information retrieval.
• Suzan Verberne, Maya Sappelli, Kalervo Jarvelin, Wessel Kraaij (2015). User simulations for interactive search: evaluating personalized query suggestion. Proceedings of the 37th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2015, Vienna, Austria, March 29 – April 2, 2015, pp 678-690
• Saskia Koldijk, Maya Sappelli, Suzan Verberne, Marc Neerincx, Wessel Kraaij (2014). The SWELL Knowledge Work Dataset for Stress and User Modeling Research. Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2014)
• Suzan Verberne, Maya Sappelli and Wessel Kraaij (2014). Query term suggestion in academic search. Proceedings of the 36th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2014, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 13-16, 2014, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 8416, pp. 560–566.
• Maya Sappelli, Suzan Verberne, Wessel Kraaij (2013). Recommending personalized touristic sights using Google Places. Proceedings of the 36th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2013)
• Suzan Verberne, Antal van den Bosch, Helmer Strik, Lou Boves (2012). The effect of domain and text type on text prediction quality. In Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2012)
• Suzan Verberne, Lou Boves, Wessel Kraaij (2011). Bringing Why-QA to Web Search. Advances in Information Retrieval: 33rd European Conference on IR Resarch, ECIR 2011, Dublin, Ireland, April 18-21, 2011, Proceedings, pp. 491-496.
• Max Hinne, Wessel Kraaij, Suzan Verberne, Stephan Raaijmakers, Theo van der Weide, Maarten van der Heijden (2009). Annotation of URLs: more than the sum of parts. Proceedings of the 32th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2009), Boston, pp. 632-633 (poster)
• Suzan Verberne, Lou Boves, Nelleke Oostdijk, Peter-Arno Coppen (2008). Using Syntactic Information for Improving Why-Question Answering. In Proceedings of COLING 2008. Suzan Verberne, Lou Boves, Nelleke Oostdijk, Peter-Arno Coppen (2008).
• Evaluating paragraph retrieval for why-QA. In C. MacDonald et al. (Eds.): Advances in Information Retrieval – 31th European Conference on IR Research – ECIR 2008, LNCS 4956, p.p. 669-673, Glasgow, UK.
• Suzan Verberne (2007). Paragraph retrieval for why-question answering. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2007), Amsterdam, p. 922 (Doctoral Consortium)
• Suzan Verberne, Lou Boves, Nelleke Oostdijk, Peter-Arno Coppen (2007). Evaluating Discourse-based Answer Extraction for Why-Question Answering. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2007), Amsterdam, pp. 735-737 (poster)
• Suzan Verberne (2006). Developing an approach for why-question answering. In Conference Companion of the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2006), Trento, Italy, pp. 39-46 (Student Session).

Refereed papers in B-level conference proceedings

• Suzan Verberne, Antal van den Bosch, Sander Wubben, Emiel Krahmer (2017). Automatic summarization of domain-specific forum threads: collecting reference data (pdf). In the proceedings of CHIIR 2017 (short paper), pp 253-256. doi:10.1145/3020165.3022127
• Sander Wubben, Emiel Krahmer, Antal van den Bosch, Suzan Verberne (2016). Abstractive Compression of Captions with Attentive Recurrent Neural Networks (pdf). Proceedings of the 9th International Natural Language Generation conference (INLG), Edinburgh, Scotland, September 5-8, 2016.
• Toine Bogers, Iris Hendrickx, Marijn Koolen and Suzan Verberne (2016). Overview of the SBS 2016 Mining Track. In Working Notes of CLEF 2016 – Conference and Labs of the Evaluation forum, CEUR workshop proceedings, Volume 1609, pages 1053-1063.
• Marijn Koolen, Toine Bogers, Maria Gaede, Mark Michael Hall, Iris Hendrickx, Hugo Huurdeman, Jaap Kamps, Mette Skov, Suzan Verberne and David Walsh (2016). Overview of the CLEF 2016 Social Book Search Lab. In Fuhr et al (eds): Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction. 7th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2016, Évora, Portugal, September 5-8, 2016. LNCS 9822, Springer.
• Pavel Braslavski, Suzan Verberne and Ruslan Talipov (2016). Show me how to tie a tie: evaluation of cross-lingual video retrieval. In the Proceedings of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF, full paper)
• Sander Wubben, Suzan Verberne, Emiel Krahmer, Antal van den Bosch (2015). Facilitating online discussions by automatic summarization. In Proceedings of The 27th Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC 2015), Hasselt, Belgium, November 2015.
• Maya Sappelli, Suzan Verberne and Wessel Kraaij (2014). E-mail categorization using partially related training examples. Proceedings of the Information Interaction in Context conference (IIiX 2014).
• John Schavemaker, Erik Boertjes, Saskia Koldijk, Leon Wiertz, Suzan Verberne, Maya Sappelli, Rianne Kaptein (2014). Fishualization: a group feedback display. Proceedings of The 9th International Conference on Methods and Techniques in Behavioral Research (Measuring Behavior 2014)
• Joël Cox and Suzan Verberne (2013). Profiling knowledge workers using open online profiles. In Proceedings of The 25th Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC 2013), Delft, the Netherlands, November 2013.
• Maya Sappelli, Suzan Verberne, Wessel Kraaij (2013) Combining textual and non-textual features for e-mail importance estimation. In Proceedings of The 25th Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC 2013), Delft, the Netherlands, November 2013.
• Suzan Verberne, Maya Sappelli, Wessel Kraaij (2013). Term extraction for user profiling: evaluation by the user. Proceedings of the The 21st Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP), Rome, Italy, June 10-14, 2013
• Maya Sappelli, Suzan Verberne, Wessel Kraaij (2012). Using file system content to organize e-mail. In Proceedings of the Fourth Information Interaction in Context Symposium (IIiX 2012)
• Nelleke Oostdijk, Suzan Verberne and Cornelis H.A. Koster (2010). Constructing a broad coverage lexicon for text mining in the patent domain. Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2010) Valletta, Malta, May 2010. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
• Daphne Theijssen, Hans van Halteren, Suzan Verberne and Lou Boves (2008). Features for automatic discourse analysis of paragraphs. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands, selected papers from the eighteenth CLIN meeting (CLIN 2007), pp. 53-68
• Daphne Theijssen, Suzan Verberne, Nelleke Oostdijk, Lou Boves (2007). Evaluating deep syntactic parsing. In Proceedings of the 17th meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN 17), Leuven, Belgium, pp 115-130.
• Suzan Verberne, Lou Boves, Nelleke Oostdijk, Peter-Arno Coppen (2006). Exploring the use of linguistic analysis for why-question answering. In Proceedings of the 16th meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN 2005), Amsterdam, pp. 33-48.
• Suzan Verberne, Lou Boves, Nelleke Oostdijk, Peter-Arno Coppen (2006). Data for question answering: the case of why. In Proceedings of the 5th edition of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006), Genoa, Italy.

Refereed papers in workshop proceedings

• Suzan Verberne, Thymen Wabeke and Rianne Kaptein (2015). Boolean Queries for News Monitoring: Suggesting new query terms to expert users. The First International Workshop on Recent Trends in News Information Retrieval (NewsIR’16)
• Suzan Verberne, Thymen Wabeke and Rianne Kaptein (2015). QUINN: Query Updates for News Monitoring. In Proceedings of the 14th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, p. 30.
• Maya Sappelli, Suzan Verberne, Saskia Koldijk and Wessel Kraaij (2014). Collecting a dataset of information behaviour in context. Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Context-Awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation (CARR @ ECIR 2014), pp 26-29, ACM New York, NY, USA
• Suzan Verberne, Maya Sappelli, Diana R. Sørensen, Wessel Kraaij (2013). Personalization in Professional Academic Search. In: M. Lupu, M. Salampasis, N. Fuhr, A. Hanbury, B. Larsen, H. Strindberg (eds.): Proceedings of the Integrating IR technologies for Professional Search Workshop at ECIR, Moscow, Russia, 24 March 2013
• Maya Sappelli, Suzan Verberne, Maarten van der Heijden, Max Hinne, Wessel Kraaij (2012). Collecting ground truth data for query intent. In Proceedings of the Dutch-Belgium Information Retrieval workshop (DIR 2012)
• Suzan Verberne, Eva D’Hondt, Nelleke Oostdijk, Cornelis H.A. Koster (2010). Quantifying the Challenges in Parsing Patent Claims. Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Advances in Patent Information Retrieval (AsPIRe 2010) at ECIR 2010, Milton Keynes, UK pp. 14-21.
• Max Hinne, Maarten van der Heijden, Suzan Verberne, Wessel Kraaij (2011). A multi-dimensional model for search intent. Proceedings of the Dutch-Belgium Information Retrieval workshop (DIR 2011)
• Nelleke Oostdijk, Hans van Halteren, Eva D’Hondt, Suzan Verberne (2010). Genre and Domain in Patent Texts. Proceedings of the The 3rd International Workshop on Patent Information Retrieval (PAIR) at CIKM 2010, pp 39-46
• Maarten van der Heijden, Max Hinne, Suzan Verberne, Eduard Hoenkamp, Theo van der Weide, Wessel Kraaij (2010). When is a query a question? Reconstructing wh-requests from ad hoc-queries. Proceedings of the Query Representation and Understanding workshop at SIGIR 2010 (pp. 17-20)
• Eva D’Hondt, Suzan Verberne, Nelleke Oostdijk, Lou Boves (2010). Re-ranking based on Syntactic Dependencies in Prior-Art Retrieval. Proceedings of the Dutch-Belgium Information Retrieval workshop 2010 (DIR 2010), pages 23-30
• Suzan Verberne, Max Hinne, Maarten van der Heijden, Wessel Kraaij, Eva D’hondt, Theo van der Weide (2009). Annotating URLs with query terms: What factors predict reliable annotations?. Proceedings of the Understanding the User (UIIR) workshop at SIGIR 2009, pp. 40-43
• Suzan Verberne, Hans van Halteren, Stephan Raaijmakers, Daphne Theijssen, Lou Boves (2009). Learning to Rank QA data. Proceedings of the Learning to Rank workshop at SIGIR 2009, pp. 41-48
• Suzan Verberne, Stephan Raaijmakers, Daphne Theijssen, Lou Boves (2009). Learning to Rank Answers to Why-Questions. Proceedings of the Dutch-Belgium Information Retrieval workshop (DIR 2009), pp. 34-41.
• Cornelis H.A. Koster, Nelleke Oostdijk, Suzan Verberne, Eva D’Hondt (2009). Challenges in Professional Search with PHASAR. Proceedings of the Dutch-Belgium Information Retrieval workshop (DIR 2009), pp 101-102 (poster).
• Maarten van der Heijden, Max Hinne, Wessel Kraaij, Suzan Verberne, Theo van der Weide (2009). Using query logs and click data to create improved document descriptions. Proceedings of WSCD 2009, pp. 64-67.
• Mahboob Khalid and Suzan Verberne (2008). Passage Retrieval for Question Answering using Sliding Windows. In Proceedings of COLING 2008, workshop Information Retrieval for Question Answering (IR4QA).
• Suzan Verberne (2007). Evaluating Answer Extraction for Why-QA using RST-annotated Wikipedia texts. In Proceedings of the Twelfth ESSLLI Student Session, Dublin, pp. 255-266.

Working notes papers (non-refereed)

• Suzan Verberne (2014). A language-modelling approach to User-Centred Health Information Retrieval. Proceedings of the Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation (CLEF) – LABs and Workshops Notebook Papers, eHealth lab 2014.
• Suzan Verberne (2011). Retrieval-based Question Answering for Machine Reading Evaluation. Proceedings of the Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation – LABs and Workshops Notebook Papers (CLEF 2011), QA4MRE workshop.
• Suzan Verberne and Eva D’Hondt (2011). Patent classification experiments with the Linguistic Classification System LCS in CLEF-IP 2011. Proceedings of the Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation – LABs and Workshops Notebook Papers (CLEF 2011), CLEF-IP workshop.
• Eva D’Hondt, Suzan Verberne, Wouter Alink and Roberto Cornacchia (2011). Combining document representations for prior-art retrieval. Proceedings of the Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation – LABs and Workshops Notebook Papers (CLEF 2011), CLEF-IP workshop.
• Suzan Verberne, Merijn Vogel, Eva D’Hondt (2010). Patent classification experiments with the Linguistic Classification System LCS. Proceedings of the Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation LABs and Workshops Notebook Papers (CLEF 2010), CLEF-IP workshop.
• Suzan Verberne, Max Hinne, Maarten van der Heijden, Eduard Hoenkamp, Wessel Kraaij, Theo van der Weide(2010). How does the Library Searcher Behave? A Contrastive Study of Library Search against Ad-hoc Search. Proceedings of the Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation – LABs and Workshops Notebook Papers (CLEF 2010), logCLEF workshop.
• Suzan Verberne and Eva D’Hondt (2009). Prior art retrieval using the claims section as a bag of words. Working notes of CLEF 2009, CLEF-IP workshop.

Publications for a general audience (in Dutch)

• Taal- en spraaktechnologie in het onderwijs, rapport Nederlandse Taalunie door Jan T’Sas, Theo van den Heuvel en Suzan Verberne, 2012.
• Hoe kan de ‘onderzoekende zoeker’ beter ondersteund worden?. In Dixit (Tijdschrift van de Nederlandse Organisatie voor Taal- en Spraaktechnologie NOTAS), december 2011 (link naar de uitgebreide e-versie).
• Waarom is ‘waarom’ moeilijk voor computers? Kennislink, vakpagina Taal en Spraak, april 2010 (persbericht door Daphne Theijssen).
• Het Slimme Zoeksysteem geeft Antwoord. Kennislink, vakpagina Taal en Spraak, juni 2008