Börkur Sigurbjörnsson

social networks

  • Understanding and leveraging tag-based relations in on-line social networks

    Marek Lipczak, Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, Alejandro Jaimes. Understanding and leveraging tag-based relations in on-line social networks. In: Proceedings of the 23rd ACM conference on Hypertext and social media (HT’12). 2012.

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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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  • Fannr: Flickr Annotator

    Fannr: Flickr photo annotator

    Fannr was a prototype that helped Flickr users annotate photos by recommending tags and possible locations, drawing on their own photos and wider photo collections.

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  • Improving Tag Recommendation Using Social Networks

    Adam Rae, Roelof van Zwol, and Börkur Sigurbjörnsson. Improving Tag Recommendation Using Social Networks In: RIAO’2010 : Recherche d’Information Assistée par Ordinateur / Adaptativity, Personalization and Fusion of Heterogeneous Information. 2010.

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