Academic Work
I received his PhD from the Informatics Institute at the University of Amsterdam, moved on to Yahoo! Labs in Barcelona, before emerging himself in the startup scene. In the process I racked up a few publications and research projects and research prototypes.
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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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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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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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Narrowed Extended XPath I (NEXI)
Andrew Trotman, and Börkur Sigurbjörnsson. Narrowed Extended XPath I (NEXI). 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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The Importance of Length Normalization for XML Retrieval
Jaap Kamps, Maarten de Rijke, and Börkur Sigurbjörnsson. The Importance of Length Normalization for XML Retrieval. In: Information Retrieval. 2005.
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Blueprint of a Cross-Lingual Web Retrieval Collection
Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, Jaap Kamps, and Maarten de Rijke. Blueprint of a Cross-Lingual Web Retrieval Collection. In: Proceedings of the Fifth Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop. 2005.