wikipedia
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Point of Interest Exploration with Yahoo! Image Search
One of my most fruitful project while working at Yahoo! Research was a collaboration with the Yahoo! Image Search team. We built system for extracting and ranking points of interest for towns, countries and regions. The points of interest were extracted from Wikipedia, Yahoo! GeoPlanet and Yahoo! Travel. The ranking was based on co-occurrence statistics…
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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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Focused Information Access
The main research topic during my PhD research was XML Element Retrieval [1]. I took a corpus of scientific articles in XML format and built a search engine on top of it to run experiments. For a given user query, the task was to go below the document level and return the XML elements that…
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Focused Access to Wikipedia
Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, Jaap Kamps, and Maarten de Rijke. Focused Access to Wikipedia. In: 6th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR 2006). 2006.
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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.