Börkur Sigurbjörnsson

Börkur Sigurbjörnsson

  • Urbanixm Widgets WordPress Plugin

    At Urbanixm we harvest documents from the web and extract and curate information about the implementation and impact or urban policy and interventions. In order to create a proof-of-concept for the curated knowledge-base we developed a WordPress plugin that provides widgets for interacting with the information. The widgets are written in React.js and utilizes Leaflet

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  • Urbanixm Content Classification

    At Urbanixm we harvest documents from the web and extract information about the implementation and impact or urban policy and interventions. At the early stage of the content processing pipeline we judge whether a document is relevant to urbanism. At a later stage we curate relevant document paragraphs with information such as which urbanism topics

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  • Understanding and leveraging tag-based relations in on-line social networks

    Marek Lipczak, Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, Alejandro Jaimes. Understanding and leveraging tag-based relations in on-line social networks. In: Proceedings of the 23rd ACM conference on Hypertext and social media (HT’12). 2012.

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  • Photo tagging

    While at Yahoo! Research I was involved in various projects on analyzing, extending and utilizing tagging of Flickr photos. We analyzed what type of tags users applied to their photos and devised a method for classifying those tags into semantic categories. We developed two prototypes, one for tag recommendation and and one for tag based

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  • Fannr: Flickr Annotator

    Fannr: Flickr photo annotator

    Fannr – Flickr Annotator – was a prototype application for assisting users in annotating their Flickr photos. Two types of annotation support is provided when annotating a single photo: tag recommendation and location recommendation.

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  • Ranking Entity Facets based on User Click Feedback

    Roelof van Zwol, Lluis Garcia Pueyo, Mridul Muralidharan, Börkur Sigurbjörnsson. Ranking Entity Facets based on User Click Feedback. In: Fourth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2010). 2010.

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  • TagExplorer: Faceted Browsing of Flickr Photos

    Börkur Sigurbjörnsson and Roelof van Zwol. TagExplorer: Faceted Browsing of Flickr Photos. Yahoo! Labs Technical Report (YL-2010-005). 2010.

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  • Machine learned ranking of entity facets

    Roelof van Zwol, Lluis Garcia Pueyo, Mridul Muralidharan, Börkur Sigurbjörnsson. Machine learned ranking of entity facets In: Proceeding of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval. 2010. (short paper)

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  • Collective Intelligence in Mobile Consumer Social Applications

    Sotiris Diplaris, Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Ana Flores, Manuel Escriche, Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, Lluis Garcia Pueyo, Roelof van Zwol. Collective Intelligence in Mobile Consumer Social Applications In: Proceedings of the 2010 Ninth International Conference on Mobile Business / 2010 Ninth Global Mobility Roundtable. 2010.

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  • Improving Tag Recommendation Using Social Networks

    Adam Rae, Roelof van Zwol, and Börkur Sigurbjörnsson. Improving Tag Recommendation Using Social Networks In: RIAO’2010 : Recherche d’Information Assistée par Ordinateur / Adaptativity, Personalization and Fusion of Heterogeneous Information. 2010.

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