Börkur Sigurbjörnsson

query refinement

  • 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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  • TagExplorer: Faceted Browsing of Flickr Photos

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

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  • TagExplorer

    The TagExplorer was prototype that I made while at Yahoo! Research in Barcelona. The TagExplorer enabled browsing Flickr photos using semantically organized tag clouds. The prototype combined two research projects that I was working on at the time, tag recommendation and tag classification (see references below). For example, if the user typed in London, they…

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