Börkur Sigurbjörnsson

Börkur Sigurbjörnsson

  • August snowstorm

    For our mid August hike to the peak Puigmal in the French Pyrenees we decided to start the hike very early in the morning in order to avoid the hot August sun. In an ironic twist of fate, we had to abandon our plans mid-way due to an unexpected snowstorm.

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  • La 30a Cursa El Corte Inglés

    I was up early — for a Sunday — and was at Plaça Catalunya at nine. I was ready to run the 30th race of El Corte Inglés — together with about fifty thousand other people. La Cursa El Corte Inglés is an odd race. First, the lenght of the race is 11km. 11 is…

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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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  • Cursa Bombers 2008

    At 9:30 I was at the starting line of the 10th race of Barcelona firemen — Cursa Bombers 2008. I arrived early in order to get a good spot on the starting line and hence skip the traffic at the start of the race. The plan was to run the 10k in 50 minutes. For…

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  • 24a Mitja Marató Sant Cugat

    Approximately a year ago I managed to run my first half-marathon. Not only did I manage to finish the race, but I also met my target of finishing it within two hours. This achievement was the result of six month long systematic training on the streets of Amsterdam. Now — a year later — things…

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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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  • Cursa Bombers 2007

    The first day of April is ideal for tricking people. Today I was tricked into running around the streets of Barcelona as part of the annual 10k race, Cursa Bombers. Since my office is located close to the starting point of the race I planned to store my sweatshirt, the legs of my pants and…

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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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  • 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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