Börkur Sigurbjörnsson

classification

  • Urbanixm Content Classification

    At Urbanixm we harvest documents from the web and extract information about the implementation and impact or urban policy and interventions. At the early stage of the content processing pipeline we judge whether a document is relevant to urbanism. At a later stage we curate relevant document paragraphs with information such as which urbanism topics

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  • Photo tagging

    While at Yahoo! Research I was involved in various projects on analyzing, extending and utilizing tagging of Flickr photos. We analyzed what type of tags users applied to their photos and devised a method for classifying those tags into semantic categories. We developed two prototypes, one for tag recommendation and and one for tag based

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  • Classifying Tags using Open Content Resources

    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.

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