Börkur Sigurbjörnsson

Publications

I accrued my academic publications mainly while working at the University of Amsterdam and Yahoo! Labs in Barcelona. Their topics include structured information exploration, multimedia browsing, XML retrieval and knowledge management.

  • Marek Lipczak, Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, Alejandro Jaimes. Understanding and leveraging tag-based relations in on-line social networks. In: Proceedings of the 23rd ACM conference on Hypertext and social media (HT’12). 2012. read more

  • Roelof van Zwol, Lluis Garcia Pueyo, Mridul Muralidharan, Börkur Sigurbjörnsson. Ranking Entity Facets based on User Click Feedback. In: Fourth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2010). 2010. read more

  • Börkur Sigurbjörnsson and Roelof van Zwol. TagExplorer: Faceted Browsing of Flickr Photos. Yahoo! Labs Technical Report (YL-2010-005). 2010. read more

  • Roelof van Zwol, Lluis Garcia Pueyo, Mridul Muralidharan, Börkur Sigurbjörnsson. Machine learned ranking of entity facets In: Proceeding of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval. 2010. (short paper) read more

  • Sotiris Diplaris, Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Ana Flores, Manuel Escriche, Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, Lluis Garcia Pueyo, Roelof van Zwol. Collective Intelligence in Mobile Consumer Social Applications In: Proceedings of the 2010 Ninth International Conference on Mobile Business / 2010 Ninth Global Mobility Roundtable. 2010. read more

  • Adam Rae, Roelof van Zwol, and Börkur Sigurbjörnsson. Improving Tag Recommendation Using Social Networks In: RIAO’2010 : Recherche d’Information Assistée par Ordinateur / Adaptativity, Personalization and Fusion of Heterogeneous Information. 2010. read more

  • Roelof van Zwol, Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, Ramu Adapala, Lluis Garcia Pueyo, Abhinav Katiyar, Kaushal Kurapati, Mridul Muralidharan, Sudar Muthu, Vanessa Murdock, Polly Ng, Anand Ramani, Anuj Sahai, Sriram Thiru Sathish, Hari Vasudev, and Upendra Vuyyuru. Faceted exploration of image search results In: WWW ’10: Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web. 2010. read more

  • Matthijs van Leeuwen, Francesco Bonchi, Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, and Arno Siebes. Compressing tags to find interesting media groups In: Proceeding of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management (CIKM 2009). 2009. read more

  • 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. read more

  • 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. read more

  • 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. read more

  • Börkur Sigurbjörnsson. Focused Information Access using XML Element Retrieval. In: SIKS Dissertation Series. 2006. read more

  • 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. read more

  • 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. read more

  • 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. read more