Academic Work
Academic work by Börkur Sigurbjörnsson. Börkur received his PhD from the Informatics Institute at the University of Amsterdam, moved on to Yahoo! Research in Barcelona, before emerging himself in the startup scene.
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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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XMLFind
XMLFind was a prototype developed by a group of students who I supervised during Project Information Retrieval — a one month intensive class at The University of Amsterdam where a small team of students worked together on a project. The students built the prototype on top of the XML retrieval engine I had developed as…
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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.
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Language-dependent and Language-independent Approaches to Cross-Lingual Text Retrieval
Jaap Kamps, Christof Monz, Maarten de Rijke, and Börkur Sigurbjörnsson. Language-dependent and Language-independent Approaches to Cross-Lingual Text Retrieval. In: Comparative Evaluation of Multilingual Information Access Systems, CLEF 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 2004.
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Processing Content-Oriented XPath Queries
Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, Jaap Kamps, and Maarten de Rijke. Processing Content-Oriented XPath Queries. In: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2004). 2004.
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Length Normalization in XML Retrieval
Jaap Kamps, Maarten de Rijke, and Börkur Sigurbjörnsson. Length Normalization in XML Retrieval. In: Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, (SIGIR 2004). 2004.
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Multiple Sources of Evidence for XML Retrieval
Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, Jaap Kamps, and Maarten de Rijke. Multiple Sources of Evidence for XML Retrieval. In: Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, (SIGIR 2004) 2004.
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Best-Match Querying for Document-Centric XML
Jaap Kamps, Maarten Marx, Maarten de Rijke, and Börkur Sigurbjörnsson. Best-Match Querying for Document-Centric XML. In: Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB 2004). 2004.
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Processing Content-and-Structure Queries for XML Retrieval
Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, Jaap Kamps, and Maarten de Rijke. Processing Content-and-Structure Queries for XML Retrieval. In: Proceedings of the First Twente Data Management Workshop (TDM’04). 2004.