Börkur Sigurbjörnsson

classification

  • Urbanixm Content Classification

    Urbanixm Content Classification uses machine-learning models to identify relevant web pages and annotate passages about urban policy and interventions. It automates parts of the content-curation pipeline, helping process the collection at scale.

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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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