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Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. E-mail address: [email protected] Download date: 26. Sep. 2021 IDENTITYOFLONG-TAILENTITIESINTEXT filip ilievski i The research reported in this thesis has been funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) via the Spinoza fund, which was granted to prof.dr. Piek Vossen in 2013. Dutch title: Identiteit van laag-frequente entiteiten in tekst Cover: photo by https://pixabay.com/users/comfreak-51581/ adapted by Frosina Ilievska and Filip Ilievski Printed by: Grafoprom Bitola || http://grafoprom.com Identity of Long-tail Entities in Text by Filip Ilievski is to be published by IOS Press in the book series Studies on the Semantic Web in 2019. Copyright © 2019 Filip Ilievski vrije universiteit Identity of Long-Tail Entities in Text academisch proefschrift ter verkrijging van de graad Doctor of Philosophy aan de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, op gezag van de rector magnificus prof.dr. V. Subramaniam, in het openbaar te verdedigen ten overstaan van de promotiecommissie van de Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen op vrijdag 6 september 2019 om 13.45 uur in de aula van de universiteit, De Boelelaan 1105 door Filip Ilievski geboren te Bitola, Macedonië promotoren: prof.dr. P.T.J.M. Vossen prof.dr. F.A.H. van Harmelen copromotoren: dr. K.S. Schlobach dr. M.G.J. van Erp committee: prof.dr. L. de Vries dr. T. Kuhn dr. D. Maynard prof.dr. M. de Rijke prof.dr. W. Daelemans prof.dr. P. Cimiano ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This has been one of the most difficult sections to write. How to sufficiently express my gratitude to all people that were crucial for my PhD life over the past four years? It seems complicated to do justice here. Still, the acknowledgments are probably going to be the most visited section of this thesis, so I’d better perform well. :-) The PhD years have been a great shaping experience. The intuition that I be- long in academia, such a vibrant environment with fundamental discussions and critical minds, was apparently not wrong. It was a real delight to spend days with inspiring people, and a worthwhile challenge to practice structuring my quite-limitless freedom that came with the PhD. I did not mind either travel- ing to remote places to discuss ideas with colleagues from worldwide. All in all, this has been an exciting life chapter. Above all, I must acknowledge the role of my mentors. I have been extremely lucky to have you guide me through my PhD years, and I believe we made a great team! I was very much inspired and challenged by each one of you. Your directness and care fed my motivation throughout the process. Besides being great academic minds, your views and interests set an example in a more general, human sense - which I find equally important. Thank you for all of this! Piek, thanks for your incredible devotion and guidance at every stage of my PhD process. Seeing the energy you share with your students and staff, I am still wondering whether you have found a trick to expand your day beyond the customary 24 hours. I could not have wished for a more careful, reliable, and understanding promotor. I appreciate greatly that you stand firmly for what you believe and find sufficient strength to voice your opinion on important societal matters. More selfishly, thanks for largely shaping my PhD topic, for generating brilliant ideas, and for allowing me to visit a number of conferences and spend months at CMU. Frank, your passion for science and our discussions during my Master studies gave me a first taste of what research is like, which I did not resist. Thanks for being the prime inspiration for me to direct myself towards the academia. Your rigorous and fair take on science is something I greatly appreciate. I am also amazed to date that you can always summarize my thoughts better than I can. Thanks for the interesting discussions, and for never losing track of the broad picture of my research, which, I believe, helped me tremendously in writing the thesis without much hassle. Stefan, because of the systematicity in writing I learned from you, I will never again write a paper without listing my hypotheses early in a table :-p Your con- tinuum between a mentor, a collaborator, and a friend has been very comfortable, and at times refreshingly challenging. Starting from my exchange year at the VU in 2012/13, throughout my Master studies, Master thesis, and the PhD period, vii I have always felt your strong faith in my abilities and your thoughts about my best interests. I would like to thank you for your huge patience and empathy in my worst moments, and for your appreciation and support in my best ones. The valuable pieces of advice I received during our meetings will long fuel my goals in the future. Marieke, I would like to thank you for introducing me to the academic culture, for patiently helping me understand the research practices, and your assistance in learning LaTeX. Your role in facilitating various papers in the early stages of my PhD was a major boost of my self-confidence and a waiver of many potential worries later. Besides your support and guidance, thank you for being probably the most cheerful and easygoing researcher I know, always lighting up the mood around you, and constructively looking for ways forward. I still intend to watch Star Wars, by the way, it’s on my list ;) Ed, I would like to express my gratitude for your hospitality at Carnegie Mel- lon in 2017, which was an extremely rich and impactful experience for me. The ideas we were passionate about then are still at the heart of my research interest today. Thank you for your guidance and eye-opening suggestions, especially in Santa Fe last year: I have never understood my strengths and weak points clearer than on that day. I am still fascinated with the very detailed emails we exchange at the expenses of other (I am sure, more important) tasks of yours. You are a great motivation and a source of inspiration for me to date. Marten, it has been a pleasure to grow together for so long during our PhDs, sharing many challenges, several moments of triumph, and two inspiring trips to America with you, Chantal, and Pia. Emiel and Marten, it was not less en- tertaining to inject all those song lyrics randomly in conversations. A little less conversation, little more action, please ;-) I hereby apologize to the CLTL mem- bers for any inconvenience caused, though I bet you secretly enjoyed it. Chantal and Pia, best of luck with completing your PhDs. Hennie, Isa, Selene, all others: thank you for the nice time spent in and around the office together. Each of you has been an amazing colleague and a very unique character. Wouter and Laurens, I cannot imagine a more fun and fruitful start of my PhD than our collaboration and coffee breaks in T3.12. Laurens, I promise you an actual competitive tennis match in a few years. Wouter, I learned a lot from you about both science and arts; Sun Ra is still among the most unusual jazz musicians I have encountered. I hope your political ideas keep evolving and in- fluencing the (academic) world in the next period. Albert, thank you for your friendliness and curiosity, and for being an excellent mix of science and music. Ilaria, it has been awesome to hang out both in academic as well as in social setting; looking forward to our first NLP collaboration. Erman, Anca, Annette, Peter, Victor, Jan, Veruska, and all others: it has been a delight to share the KR- R/SW group. I could not imagine my life in Amsterdam without my social circles. Eduard, thank you for the fun chats and the cheeky insights, that might be occasion- ally useful. Eduard and Adrien, the Sunday evening jam sessions, though tiring, have motivated me on many Monday mornings. Laurie, you have been a great viii addition to my life: I appreciate our long talks about various topics and our exploration of the city culture with you and Adrien. Thanks for your kindness and for encouraging my goals. Unmesh, thanks a lot for always being a great friend and for supporting my sporting targets. Elle, I enjoyed sharing lunches and gym sessions with you, always a pleasure to spend some time together. Alberto, Nedim, Herbi, thank you guys for your company and the parties we shared; I hate that Amsterdam has been a transit city for each of you.