information retrieval

  • Wikiii

    Wikiii was a search engine interface for giving focused access to Wikipedia. It was powered by the Lucene based XML element retrieval engine I developed as part of my PhD research. For a given query the search engine gave direct access to the most relevant sections of the relevant Wikipedia articles.

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  • Structured Queries in XML Retrieval

    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.

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  • Focused Information Retrieval from Semi-structured Documents

    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.

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  • Understanding Content-and-Structure

    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.

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  • Mixture Models, Overlap and Structural Hints in XML Element Retrieval

    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.

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  • NEXI, Now and Next

    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.

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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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