Börkur Sigurbjörnsson
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Point of Interest Exploration with Yahoo! Image Search
One of my most fruitful project while working at Yahoo! Research was a collaboration with the Yahoo! Image Search team. We built system for extracting and ranking points of interest for towns, countries and regions. The points of interest were extracted from Wikipedia, Yahoo! GeoPlanet and Yahoo! Travel. The ranking was based on co-occurrence statistics…
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Classifying Tags using Open Content Resources
Simon Overell, Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, and Roelof van Zwol. Classifying Tags using Open Content Resources. In: Proceedings of the Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2009). 2009.
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TagExplorer
The TagExplorer was prototype that I made while at Yahoo! Research in Barcelona. The TagExplorer enabled browsing Flickr photos using semantically organized tag clouds. The prototype combined two research projects that I was working on at the time, tag recommendation and tag classification (see references below). For example, if the user typed in London, they…
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Flickr Tag Recommendation based on Collective Knowledge
Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, and Roelof van Zwol. Flickr Tag Recommendation based on Collective Knowledge. In: Proceedings of the 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW’08). 2008.
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Filtering and Clustering XML Retrieval Results
Jaap Kamps, Marijn Koolen, and Börkur Sigurbjörnsson. Filtering and Clustering XML Retrieval Results. In: Comparative Evaluation of XML Information Retrieval Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science.. 2007.
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Focused Information Access
The main research topic during my PhD research was XML Element Retrieval [1]. I took a corpus of scientific articles in XML format and built a search engine on top of it to run experiments. For a given user query, the task was to go below the document level and return the XML elements that…
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Focused Information Access using XML Element Retrieval
Börkur Sigurbjörnsson. Focused Information Access using XML Element Retrieval. In: SIKS Dissertation Series. 2006.
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Combination Methods for Crosslingual Web Retrieval
Jaap Kamps, Maarten de Rijke, and Börkur Sigurbjörnsson. Combination Methods for Crosslingual Web Retrieval. 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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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.