Zoltán Szlávik (Zoli)

Research

I am currently (mainly) interested in Recommender systems, Data Mining (in general), Text summarisation, and Information retrieval.

I am working part time on the OptiFox project (Work Package 3), "a project which is funded by a European Commission's 7th Framework Research for SME grant (7FP-SME 262266). In this project we aim at developing an intelligent, self-learning agent (or system) for CI fitting. We will combine the latest technologies from linguistics, automatic speech recognition, machine learning, and optimization techniques. The consortium consists of SMEs and research institutes from Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, in close collaboration with the CI manufacturer Advanced Bionics." [paper]

Teaching

I have been teaching Data Mining Techniques at the VU University Amsterdam since spring 2010, Neural Networks since autumn 2011, and sometimes give lectures as part of other courses (e.g. a DM/ML lecture for Integrative Tumor Cell Biology).

I also supervise Master's projects (~5 per semester) of students mainly with Artificial Intelligence, Business Analytics, and Computer Science backgrounds. Also, I have been the supervisor of several students doing smaller projects (Mini Master, BMI Paper, Literature Review).

Previously I have been involved in assisting at a number of courses at the VU (Neural Networks) and at QMUL (8+ different courses).

Publications

Z. Szlávik, A. Tombros, and M. Lalmas. Summarisation of the logical structure of XML documents. Information Processing and Management, (to appear).	Bibtex
Z. Szlávik, W. Kowalczyk, and M.C. Schut. Diversity measurement of recommender systems under different user choice models. In ICWSM, 2011.	Bibtex
S.K. Smit, A.E. Eiben, and Z. Szlávik. An MOEA-based method to tune EA parameters on multiple objective functions. In Proceedings of ICEC 2010, 2010.	Bibtex
Z. Szlávik. Content and structure summarisation for accessing XML documents. SIGIR Forum, 43(1): 74, 2009.	Bibtex
Z. Szlávik. Content and structure summarisation for accessing XML documents. PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary, University of London, 2008.	Bibtex
Z. Szlávik, A. Tombros, and M. Lalmas. Feature- and query-based table of contents generation for XML documents. In ECIR, pages 456–467, 2007.	Bibtex
Z. Szlávik, A. Tombros, and M. Lalmas. Content and structure summarisation of XML documents for effective information access. In Second DELOS Conference on Digital Libraries, 2007.	Bibtex
Z. Szlávik, A. Tombros, and M. Lalmas. The use of summaries in XML retrieval. In Proceedings of ECDL 2006, pages 75–86, 2006.	Bibtex
Z. Szlávik, A. Tombros, and M. Lalmas. Investigating the use of summarisation for interactive XML retrieval. In F. Crestani and G. Pasi, editors, Proceedings of ACM SAC-IARS’06, pages 1068–1072, 2006.	Bibtex
S. Dominich, S. Darányi, and Z. Szlávik. Magyar hiedelmek hierarchikus struktúrája [The hierarchical structure of hungarian folk beliefs]. Alkalmazott Nyelvtudomány, 2006. In Hungarian.	Bibtex
Z. Szlávik and T. Rölleke. Building and experimenting with a heterogeneous collection. In Third Workshop of the INitiative for the Evaluation of XML retrieval INEX 2004, pages 359–368. Springer Verlag, 2005.	Bibtex
N. Fuhr, M. Lalmas, S. Malik, and Z. Szlávik, editors. Proceedings of INEX 2004, volume 3493, 2005.
M. Lalmas, T. Tombros, Z. Szlávik, and T. Rölleke. Accessing XML documents: the INEX initiative, 2004.	Bibtex
S. Dominich, J. Góth, T. Kiezer, and Z. Szlávik. An entropy-based interpretation of retrieval status value-based retrieval, and itsapplication to the computation of term and query discrimination value. JASIST, 55(7):613– 627, 2004.	Bibtex

Recent posters

Z. Szlávik, B. Vaerenberg, W. Kowalczyk and P. Govaerts. Opti-Fox: Towards the Automatic Tuning of Cochlear Implants. Benelearn, 2011.

P. Nogueira and Z. Szlávik. Automatic Construction of Personalized Concept Maps from Free Text. Benelearn, 2011.

Z. Szlávik, W. Kowalczyk and M. Schut. Diversity Measurement of Recommender Systems under Different User Choice Models. Benelearn, 2011.

W. Luijben, Z. Szlávik and D. Dahlsveen. Scale-Independent Forecasting Performance Comparison. Benelearn, 2011.

S.K. Smit, Z. Szlávik, and A.E. Eiben. Population Diversity Index: A New Measure for Population Diversity. GECCO, 2011.