Börkur Sigurbjörnsson
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EuroGOV: Engineering a Multilingual Web Corpus
Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, Jaap Kamps, and Maarten de Rijke. EuroGOV: Engineering a Multilingual Web Corpus. In: Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories: 6th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 2006.
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Overview of WebCLEF 2005
Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, Jaap Kamps, and Maarten de Rijke. Overview of WebCLEF 2005. In: Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories: 6th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 2006.
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Articulating Information Needs in XML Query Languages
Jaap Kamps, Maarten Marx, Maarten de Rijke, and Börkur Sigurbjörnsson. Articulating Information Needs in XML Query Languages. In: ACM Transactions on Information Systems. 2006.
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What do Users Think of an XML Element Retrieval System?
Jaap Kamps, and Börkur Sigurbjörnsson. What do Users Think of an XML Element Retrieval System?. In: Advances in XML Information Retrieval and Evaluation: Fourth Workshop of the INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX 2005). Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 2006.
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The Effect of Structured Queries and Selective Indexing on XML Retrieval
Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, and Jaap Kamps. The Effect of Structured Queries and Selective Indexing on XML Retrieval. In: Advances in XML Information Retrieval and Evaluation: Fourth Workshop of the INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX 2005). Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 2006.
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Roetersrun 2006
I participated in the first (annual) Roetersrun. The race consisted of running four rounds around the Roeters Eiland campus of University of Amsterdam. Five kilometers. The track was rather flat except for two slippery bridges. Before the race started there was a car parked in front of one of the bridges and the runners were
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Focused Access to Wikipedia
Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, Jaap Kamps, and Maarten de Rijke. Focused Access to Wikipedia. In: 6th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR 2006). 2006.
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Wikiii

Wikiii was a search engine interface for giving focused access to Wikipedia. It was powered by the Lucene based XML element retrieval engine I developed as part of my PhD research. For a given query the search engine gave direct access to the most relevant sections of the relevant Wikipedia articles.
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Structured Queries in XML Retrieval
Jaap Kamps, Maarten Marx, Maarten de Rijke, and Börkur Sigurbjörnsson. Structured Queries in XML Retrieval. In: Proceedings of the Fourteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2005). 2005.
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Focused Information Retrieval from Semi-structured Documents
Börkur Sigurbjörnsson. Focused Information Retrieval from Semi-structured Documents (abstract). In: Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, (SIGIR 2005). 2005.