Maria Eskevich

Country:
Netherlands
Organisation:
CLARIN ERIC
Bio:

Maria has a strong background in language and speech technologies, digital humanities, information retrieval and evaluation.

She received her Ph.D. in 2014 in the field of Computer Science from Dublin City University, Ireland. The topic of her thesis was "Towards Effective Retrieval of Spontaneous Conversational Spoken Content", and it covered diverse aspects of spoken document retrieval process: from data set creation, search algorithms to results evaluation.

As a post-doctoral researcher, she has worked on policies for text and data mining and open access (H2020 Project FutureTDMat Radboud University, The Netherlands), and multimedia search and hyperlinking (H2020 Project LinkedTVat EURECOM, France).

Her research interests span from multimedia retrieval, evaluation of multimedia search, use of crowdsourcing technologies and social media, to text and data mining (TDM), archiving, and use of those technologies in context of digital humanities. She has co-authored more than 30 research papers, and has given multiple research talks and presentations at various events. She is one of the organisers of the "Rich Speech Retrieval" and all editions of the "Search and Hyperlinking" Tasks at the MediaEvaland TRECVidEvaluation Benchmarks; special sessions User-centric Video Search Hyperlinking(ICMR'14) and Identifying and Linking Interesting Content in Large Audiovisual Repositories(ICMR'17); ParlaCLARINworkshop (LREC'18) on parlamentary data processing.

Up-to-date publication track

Publications by type

Journal papers (2):

  1. Maria Eskevich, Gareth J.F. Jones. Exploring Speech Retrieval from Meetings using the AMI Corpus. Computer Speech and Language, Special Issue Info Extraction & Retrieval, 2014.
  2. Martha Larson, Mohammad. Soleymani, Maria Eskevich, Pavel Serdyukov, Roeland Ordelman, Gareth J.F. Jones. The Community and the Crowd: Developing large-scale data collections for multimedia benchmarking. IEEE Multimedia, Special Issue "Large-Scale Multimedia Data Collections", 2012. [bib] [pdf]

​Peer-reviewed conference papers (11):

  1. Maria Eskevich, Martha Larson, Robin Aly, Serwah Sabetghadam, Gareth J.F. Jones, Roeland Ordelman, Benoit Huet. Multimodal Video-to-Video Linking: Turning to the Crowd for Insight and Evaluation. 23rd International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling (MMM), Reykjavík, Iceland, 2017.
  2. Yvette Graham, Timothy Baldwin, Teresa Lynn, Meghan Dowling, Lamia Tounsi, Maria Eskevich. Is all that Glitters in Machine Translation Quality Estimation really Gold? 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Osaka, Japan, 2016.
  3. Maria Eskevich. Stakeholders in academic publishing: text and data mining perspective and potential. International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ELPUB), Gottingen, Germany, 2016.
  4. Maria Eskevich, Huynh Nguyen, Mathilde Sahuguet, Benoit Huet. Hyper Video Browser: Search and Hyperlinking in Broadcast Media. ACM Multimedia (ACM MM) 2015, Brisbane, Australia, 2015.
  5. Shu Chen, Maria Eskevich, Gareth J.F. Jones, Noel E. O’Connor. An Investigation into Feature Effectiveness for Multimedia Hyperlinking. 20th Anniversary International MultiMedia Modeling Conference 2014.
  6. Maria Eskevich, Gareth J.F. Jones, Robin Aly, Roeland Ordelman, Shu Chen, Danish Nadeem, Camille Guinaudeau, Guillaume Gravier, Pascale Sébillot, Tom De Nies, Pedro Debevere, Rik Van de Walle, Petra Galušcáková, Pavel Pecina and Martha Larson. Multimedia Information Seeking through Search and Hyperlinking. International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval 2013, Dallas, Texas, USA, 2013.
  7. Sebastian Schmiedeke, Peng Xu, Isabelle Ferrané, Maria Eskevich, Christoph Kofler, Martha Larson, Yannick Estève, Lori Lamel, Gareth J.F. Jones, Thomas Sikora. Blip10000: A social Video Dataset containing SPUG Content for Tagging and Retrieval. Dataset Track. ACM Multimedia Systems. Oslo, Norway, 2013. [bib]
  8. Maria Eskevich, Gareth J.F. Jones, Martha Larson, Christian Wartena, Robin Aly, Thijs Verschoor, Roeland Ordelman. Comparing Retrieval Effectiveness of Alternative Content Segmentation Methods for Internet Video Search. 10th Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, Annecy, France, 2012. [bib] [pdf]
  9. Maria Eskevich, Gareth J.F. Jones, Martha Larson, Roeland Olderman. Creating a Data Collection for Evaluating Rich Speech Retrieval. LREC 2012. [bib] [pdf]
  10. Maria Eskevich, Walid Magdy, Gareth J.F. Jones. New Metrics for Meaningful Evaluation of Informally Structured Speech Retrieval. ECIR 2012. [bib] [pdf]
  11. Maria Eskevich. Prominence detected by listeners for future speech synthesis application NEALT. Proceedings Series, Vol.4, Proceedings of the 17th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics NODALIDA, Denmark, 2009 [pdf]

Peer-reviewed workshop papers (5):

  1. Roeland J.F. Ordelman, Robin Aly, Maria Eskevich, Benoit Huet, Gareth J.F. Jones. Convenient Discovery of Archived Video Using Audiovisual Hyperlinking. Speech, Language and Audio in Multimedia (SLAM) Workshop at ACM Multimedia 2015, Brisbane, Australia, 2015.
  2. Maria Eskevich, Quoc-Minh Bui, Honang-An Le, Benoit Huet. Exploring Video Hyperlinking in Broadcast Media. Speech, Language and Audio in Multimedia (SLAM) Workshop at ACM Multimedia 2015, Brisbane, Australia, 2015.
  3. Roeland J.F. Ordelman, Maria Eskevich, Robin Aly, B. Huet, Gareth J.F. Jones. Defining and Evaluating Video Hyperlinking for Navigating Multimedia Archives. Third Worldwide Web Workshop on Linked Media (LiME-2015) at WWW'15, Florence, Italy.
  4. Robin Aly, Roeland J.F. Ordelman, Maria Eskevich, Gareth J.F. Jones, Shu Chen. Linking Inside a Video Collection - What and How to Measure? First Worldwide Web Workshop on Linked Media (LiME-2013) at WWW'13, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  5. Gareth J.F.Jones, Maria Eskevich, Ágnes Gyarmati. Towards Methods for Efficient Access to Spoken Content in the AMI Corpus. Proceedings of the Workshop on Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech at ACM Multimedia 2010, Florence, Italy, 2010. [bib] [pdf]

Workshop papers (16):

  1. George Awad, Jonathan Fiscus, David Joy, Martial Michel, Wessel Kraaij, Alan F. Smeaton, George Quénot, Maria Eskevich, Robin Aly, Gareth J.F. Jones, Roeland Ordelman, Benoit Huet, Martha Larson. TRECVID 2016: Evaluating Video Search, Video Event Detection, Localization, and Hyperlinking. Proceedings of TRECVID 2016, NIST, USA. [pdf]
  2. B. Merialdo, P. Pidou, M. Eskevich, B. Huet. EURECOM at TRECVID 2016: The Adhoc Video Search and Video Hyperlinking Tasks. Proceedings of TRECVID 2016, NIST, USA.\
  3. M. Eskevich, G.J.F. Jones, R. Aly, R. Ordelman, B. Huet. Pursuing a Moving Target: Iterative Use of Benchmarking of a Task to Understand the Task. MediaEval 2016 Workshop, Hilversum, Netherlands, 2016.\
  4. Usman Niaz, Bernard Merialdo, Claudiu Tanase, Maria Eskevich, Benoit Huet. EURECOM at TrecVid 2015: Semantic Indexing and Video Hyperlinking Tasks. Proceedings of TRECVID 2015, NIST, USA.
  5. Maria Eskevich, Benoit Huet. EURECOM @ SAVA2015: Visual Features for Multimedia Search. MediaEval 2015 Workshop, Wurzen, Germany, 2015.
  6. Maria Eskevich, Robin Aly, David N. Racca, Roeland Ordelman, Shu Chen, Gareth J.F. Jones. SAVA at MediaEval 2015: Search and Anchoring in Video Archives. MediaEval 2015 Workshop, Wurzen, Germany, 2015.
  7. Maria Eskevich, Robin Aly, David N. Racca, Roeland Ordelman, Shu Chen, Gareth J.F. Jones. The Search and Hyperlinking Task at MediaEval 2014. Proceedings of the MediaEval 2014 Workshop, Barcelona, Spain, 2014. [pdf]
  8. David N. Racca, Maria Eskevich, Gareth J.F. Jones. DCU Search Runs at MediaEval 2014 Search and Hyperlinking. Proceedings of the MediaEval 2014 Workshop, Barcelona, Spain, 2014. [pdf]
  9. Maria Eskevich, Robin Aly, Roeland Ordelman, Shu Chen, Gareth J.F. Jones. The Search and Hyperlinking Task at MediaEval 2013. Proceedings of the MediaEval 2013 Workshop, Barcelona, Spain, 2013. [pdf]
  10. Maria Eskevich, Gareth J.F. Jones. Time-based Segmentation and Use of Jump-in Points in DCU Search Runs at the Search and Hyperlinking Task at MediaEval 2013. Proceedings of the MediaEval 2013 Workshop, Barcelona, Spain, 2013.[pdf]
  11. Maria Eskevich, Gareth J.F. Jones. DCU at NTCIR-10 SpokenDoc2 Passage Retrieval Task. Proc. of the 10th NTCIR Workshop Meeting, Evaluation of Information Access Technologies: Information Retrieval, Question Answering, and Cross-Lingual Information Access, Tokyo, Japan, 2013. 
  12. Maria Eskevich, Gareth J.F. Jones, Shu Chen, Robin Aly, Roeland Ordelman and Martha Larson. Search and Hyperlinking Task at MediaEval 2012. Proceedings of the MediaEval 2012 Workshop, Pisa, Italy, 2012. [pdf]
  13. Maria Eskevich, Gareth J.F.Jones. DCU Search Runs at MediaEval 2012: Search and Hyperlinking Task. Proceedings of the MediaEval 2012 Workshop, Pisa, Italy, 2012. [pdf]
  14. Martha Larson, Maria Eskevich, Roeland Ordelman, Christoph Kofler, Sebastian Schmiedeke, Gareth J.F. Jones. Overview of MediaEval 2011 Rich Speech Retrieval Task and Genre Tagging Task. In Working Notes of the MediaEval 2011, Pisa, Italy, 2011. [bib] [pdf]
  15. Maria Eskevich, Gareth J.F.Jones. DCU at MediaEval 2011: Rich Speech Retrieval (RSR). In Working Notes of the MediaEval 2011, Pisa, Italy, 2011. [bib] [pdf]
  16. Maria Eskevich, Gareth J.F.Jones. DCU at the NTCIR-9 SpokenDoc Passage Retrieval Task. In Proceedings of the 9th NTCIR Workshop Meeting, Evaluation of Information Access Technologies: Information Retrieval, Question Answering, and Cross-Lingual Information Access, Tokyo, Japan, 2011. [bib] [pdf]

Projects deliverables (4):

  1. F. van den Boom, B. White, M. Eskevich, A. van den Bosch, J. Molloy, B. Akinci, B. Triglav, D. Agnosti, M. Macleod. Compendium of Best Practices and Methodologies, Project H2020 GARRI-3-2014--665940 FutureTDM Deliverable D4.3, 2016.
  2. S. Piperidis, K. Pouli, M. Gavriilidou, D. Galanis, J. Bakagianni, M. Eskevich, A. Bertone. European Landscape of TDM Applications Report. Project H2020 GARRI-3-2014--665940 FutureTDM Deliverable D4.1, 2016.
  3. M. Eskevich, A. van den Bosch, M. Caspers, L. Guibault, A. Bertone, S. Reilly, C. Munteanu, P. Leitner, S. Piperidis. Research Report on TDM Landscape in Europe. Project H2020 GARRI-3-2014--665940 FutureTDM Deliverable D3.1, 2016.
  4. TT. Kliegr, J. Bouchner, B. Cervenkova, M. Dojchinovski, J. Kuchar, I. Lasek, M. Simunek, O. Zamazal, V. Zeman,R. Troncy, J.L. Redondo Garcia, G. Rizzo, B. Huet, M. Eskevich, B. Safadi, M. Sahuguet, H.-A. Le, Q.-M. Bui, J. Thomsen, D. Tsatsou, V. Mezaris, A. M.P. Brasoveanu, L.J.B. Nixon, L. Perez Romero. Final Linked Media Layer and Evaluation, Project FP7-ICT-2011-7 LinkedTV Deliverable, 2015.

Others (15):

  1. Twan Goosen, Nuno Freire, Clemens Neudecker, Maria Eskevich. Bringing Europeana and CLARIN together: Dissemination and exploitation of cultural heritage data in a research infrastructure. Digital Infrastructures for research (DI4R),  Brussels, Belgium, 2017.
  2. Maria Eskevich, Martha Larson, Roeland Ordelman. How well can the crowd perceive the multimodality and make relevance judgments in case of video-to-video search? Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 27 (CLIN27), Leuven, Belgium, 2017.
  3. Maria Eskevich. Twitter usage as a channel for scientific knowledge sharing. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 27 (CLIN27), Leuven, Belgium, 2017.
  4. Alexander Kotov , Elena Treshcheva, L. Bessonov, Dmitry I. Ignatov , Yana Volkovich, Maria Eskevich, Pavel Braslavski. SUMMER SCHOOL REPORT for SIGIR Forum: 10th Russian Summer School in Information Retrieval (RuSSIR 2016). Vol. 50 No. 2, pp. 28-35, December 2016.
  5. Maria Eskevich, A. van den Bosch, F. van den Boom, H. Frew, B. Akinci, A. Bertone, I. Luca, M. Caspers. FutureTDM: Improving Uptake of Text and Data Mining in the EU. Poster at the European Data Forum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 2016.
  6. Robin Aly, Maria Eskevich, Roeland Ordelman, Gareth J.F. Jones. Adapting Binary Information Retrieval Evaluation Metrics for Segment-based Retrieval Tasks. Technical report, ArXiv e-prints, 1312.1913 [pdf]
  7. Gareth J.F.Jones,Maria Eskevich, Robin Aly and Roeland Ordelman, The "Search and Hyperlinking" task at MediaEval, IIEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee (SLTC) Newsletter, May 2013.
  8. Maria Eskevich, G.J.F. Jones. Investigating Next Generation Speech Search Applications. Workshop on Innovation and Applications in Speech Technology (IAST), Dublin, Ireland, 2012. [poster]
  9. Maria Eskevich. Improving Search for Unstructured Conversational Speech Archives. Poster at RuSSIR/EDBT Summer School "Web of Data", Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2011. 
  10. Andrei Viktorov, Sergei Gramnitskij, Stanislav Gordeev, Maria Eskevich, Ekaterina Klimina. Универсальная методика подготовки компонентов обучения систем распознавания речи, Речевые технологии, 2, 2009 - General methodology to prepare components for speech recognition system training. Speech Technologies, 2, 2009 [In Russian] [pdf]
  11. Maria Eskevich, Andrei Victorov. Адаптируемое под язык акустическое моделирование для распознавания речи, Анализ русской разговорной речи, 2008 - Language adaptive modeling for language recognition. Materials of the Second interdisciplinary seminar “Analysis of Russian spoken language”, 2008 [in Russian]
  12. Maria Eskevich. Сочетания согласных внутри слова в спонтанной речи, чтении и при изолированном произнесении, Фонетический лицей, 2006 - Combinations of consonants within word in spontaneous speech, reading and when they are pronounced separately. Foneti lycée, Philological Faculty St Petersburg State University, 2006 [in Russian]
  13. Maria Eskevich. Сочетания согласных в различных типах речи, Тезисы VIII ежегодной студенческой конференции, 2005 - Consonants combinations in different types of speech. Proceedings of the VIII Annual Student Conference in Linguistics and Philology, Philological Faculty St Petersburg State University, 2005 [in Russian]
  14. Maria Eskevich, Timur Svirava. Модификация согласных в спонтанной речи и чтении (на материале согласных в интервокальном положении и сочетаний согласных), Ученые записки молодых филологов - Modifications of consonants in spontaneous speech and reading. Scientific notes of young linguists, Philological Faculty St Petersburg State University, 2004 [in Russian]
  15. Maria Eskevich, Timur Svirava. Количественные характеристики согласных в спонтанной речи и чтении (на материале русского языка), Студенческая конференция - Quantitative characteristics of consonants in spontaneous speech and reading. Materials of VII Annual Student Conference in Linguistics and Philology, Philological Faculty St Petersburg State University, 2004 [in Russian]

Thesis:

  • Maria Eskevich. Towards Effective Retrieval of Spontaneous Conversational Spoken Content. Dublin City University, Ireland, 2014.

Seminars, talks, presentations (13):

  1. Raising the profile: Improving communication of RIs – services, achievements. Case of CLARIN. 2nd FORUM, Oxford, United Kingdom. April 2018.

  2. Accessing the CLARIN newspaper data via the Virtual Language Observatory. Hacking the News@ Digital Humanities in Nordic Countries 2018. Helsinki, Finland. March 2018.

  3. Bringing Intelligence to the Multimedia Systems. University of Twente, The Netherlands. July 2017

  4. The TDM Landscape: Infrastructure and Technical Implementation. FutureTDM Symposium at the International Data Science Conference (IDSC) 2017, Salzburg, Austria. June 2017.

  5. FutureTDM: Improving Uptake of Text and Data Mining in the EU. LT-Accelerate, Brussels, Belgium. November 2016.

  6. So where are we now? The TDM landscape. FutureTDM Workshop: Improving Uptake of Text and Data Mining in the EU, Brussels, Belgium. September 2016.
  7. Video Hyperlinking task at TRECVID 2015. Seminar Bilan TRECVid2014 et apprentissage profond at GdR ISIS (Groupe de Recherche 720 ISIS (Information, Signal, Image et ViSion)), Paris, France. March 2015.
  8. Use of the crowd for work and research in multimedia. Seminar for Advanced Topics in Multimedia (ATMM) module, EURECOM, Biot, France. Jan 2015.
  9. Towards effective multimedia retrieval with focus on spontaneous conversational spoken content. LIMSI, Paris, France. June 2014.
  10. Audio/Video Search Overview: Why? What? How? Seminar for Computer Applications (CA115) module, DCU, Dublin, Ireland. March 2014. [slides]
  11. Audio/Video Search: Why? What? How? Thesis in Three Competition, Dublin, Ireland. October 2013.
  12. Focus on spoken content in multimedia retrieval. The University of Texas at El Paso, USA. April 2013. slides
  13. Introduction to Information Retrieval of Spoken Documents. NCLT Seminar Series 2009/2010, DCU, Ireland. May 2010.

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