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.

  • Jaap Kamps, Maarten Marx, Maarten de Rijke, and Börkur Sigurbjörnsson. Articulating Information Needs in XML Query Languages. In: ACM Transactions on Information Systems. 2006. read more

  • 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. read more

  • 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. read more

  • Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, Jaap Kamps, and Maarten de Rijke. Focused Access to Wikipedia. In: 6th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR 2006). 2006. read more

  • 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. read more

  • 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. read more

  • 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. read more

  • 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. read more

  • 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. read more

  • 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. read more

  • Jaap Kamps, Maarten de Rijke, and Börkur Sigurbjörnsson. The Importance of Length Normalization for XML Retrieval. In: Information Retrieval. 2005. read more

  • 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. read more

  • 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. read more

  • 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. read more

  • 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. read more