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

    TagExplorer: London Eye (screenshot)

    TagExplorer was a Yahoo! Research prototype for browsing Flickr photos through semantically organized tag clouds, combining work on tag recommendation and tag classification.

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