Börkur Sigurbjörnsson

  • The Amsterdam Marathon 2006

    Six months ago I decided to start running regularly. I bought myself new running shoes and hit the street. In my first attempt I struggled with running 4km. As time passed my struggle continued. I continued struggling with the distance. An ever increasing distance. At first I could barely run 4km without stopping. A few…

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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.

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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

    Wikii: Interface for focused access to Wikipedia

    Wikiii applied focused search to Wikipedia, returning relevant sections of articles rather than only whole articles. It used the Lucene-based XML retrieval engine I developed during my PhD research.

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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.

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  • Understanding Content-and-Structure

    Jaap Kamps, Maarten Marx, Maarten de Rijke, and Börkur Sigurbjörnsson. Understanding Content-and-Structure. In: Proceedings of the INEX 2005 Workshop on Element Retrieval Methodology. 2005.

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  • Mixture Models, Overlap and Structural Hints in XML Element Retrieval

    Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, Jaap Kamps, and Maarten de Rijke. Mixture Models, Overlap and Structural Hints in XML Element Retrieval. In: Advances in XML Information Retrieval: Third International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 2005.

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  • NEXI, Now and Next

    Andrew Trotman, and Börkur Sigurbjörnsson. NEXI, Now and Next. In: Advances in XML Information Retrieval: Third International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 2005.

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