Joeran Beel
Assistant Professor
Computer Science
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Joeran Beel is Assistant Professor in Intelligent Systems at Trinity College Dublin and a member of the ADAPT Centre. His research focuses on recommender systems (recommendations as-a-service and recommender-system evaluation) and related technologies such as machine learning and natural language processing. Joeran is further interested in the blockchain/cryptocurrencies, plagiarism detection, and information extraction in the fields of digital libraries, finance, tourism, transport, and healthcare. Joeran has published three books and over 50 peer-reviewed articles and has been awarded various grants for research projects, patent applications, and prototype development as well as some business start-up funding. He is involved in the development of open-source projects such as Mr. DLib, Docear, JabRef, and Freeplane, some of which he initiated. Joeran founded two successful IT start-ups and received multiple awards and prizes for each. Joeran studied and researched in the USA (Berkeley), Australia (Sydney), Germany (Magdeburg & Konstanz), Cyprus (Nicosia) and England (Lancaster). He has an M.Sc. in Project Management, an M.Sc. in Business Information Systems and a PhD in Computer Science. Prior to Trinity College, Joeran worked as IT product manager in the tourism industry (Munich, Germany), and as a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo, Japan.
Research Interest
Recommender Systems, User Modelling, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Information Extraction, Natural Language Processing, Text Mining, Citation Analysis, Bibliometrics, Altmetrics, Scientometrics, Plagiarism Detection, Blockchain, Digital Libraries, Digital Humanities, Finance (FinTech), Legal, Tourism, Medical
Publications
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SciPlore MindMapping: A Tool for Creating Mind Maps Combined with PDF and Reference Management
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Citation based plagiarism detection: a new approach to identify plagiarized work language independently
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Comparative evaluation of text-and citation-based plagiarism detection approaches using guttenplag
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Information retrieval on mind maps-what could it be good for?
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Evaluation of header metadata extraction approaches and tools for scientific PDF documents
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Utilizing mind-maps for information retrieval and user modelling
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Docear: An academic literature suite for searching, organizing and creating academic literature
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A comparative analysis of offline and online evaluations and discussion of research paper recommender system evaluation
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Academic search engine spam and Google Scholar’s resilience against it
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Citation Proximity Analysis (CPA): a new approach for identifying related work based on Co-Citation Analysis
