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Research Area: Search Technologies, Econ and Social Sys |
Profile
Börkur Sigurbjörnsson is a researcher at Yahoo! Research Barcelona, working on multimedia retireval and mining. Börkur is active in the European project "Search Environments for Media", SEMEDIA. Börkur received his PhD from the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam in 2006.
Recent Publications, Projects and News
- Focused Information Access using XML Element Retrieval Sigurbjornsson, Borkur, SIKS Publication Series, University of Amsterdam, 2006
- Articulating Information Needs in XML Query Languages Kamps, Jaap ; Marx, Maarten ; de Rijke, Maarten ; Sigurbjornsson, Borkur, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, ACM Press, 2006
- Overview of WebCLEF 2005 Sigurbjornsson, Borkur ; Kamps, Jaap ; de Rijke, Maarten, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 2006
- EuroGOV: Engineering a Multilingual Web Corpus Sigurbjornsson, Borkur ; Kamps, Jaap ; de Rijke, Maarten, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 2006
- Combination Methods for Crosslingual Web Retrieval Kamps, Jaap ; de Rijke, Maarten ; Sigurbjornsson, Borkur, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 2006
- The Effect of Structured Queries and Selective Indexing on XML Retrieval BorkurSigurbjornsson, ; Kamps, Jaap, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 2006
- What do Users Think of an XML Element Retrieval System? Kamps, Jaap ; Sigurbjornsson, Borkur, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 2006
- Focused Access to Wikipedia Sigurbjornsson, Borkur ; Kamps, Jaap ; de Rijke, Maarten, 6th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR 2006), 2006
- Structured Queries in XML Retrieval Kamps, Jaap ; Marx, Maarten ; de Rijke, Maarten ; Sigurbjornsson, Borkur, CIKM'05: Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, ACM Press, New York NY, USA, 2005
- Understanding Content-and-Structure Kamps, Jaap ; Marx, Maarten ; de Rijke, Maarten ; Sigurbjornsson, Borkur, Proceedings of then INEX 2005 Workshop on Element Retrieval Methodology, 2005
- Mixture-Models, Overlap, and Structural Hints in XML Element Retrieval Sigurbjornsson, Borkur ; Kamps, Jaap ; de Rijke, Maarten, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2005
- NEXI, Now and Next Trotman, Andrew ; Sigurbjornsson, Borkur, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2005
- Narrowed Extended XPath I (NEXI) Trotman, Andrew ; Sigurbjornsson, Borkur, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2005
- The Importance of Length Normalization for XML Retrieval Kamps, Jaap ; de Rijke, Maarten ; Sigurbjornsson, Borkur, Information Retrieval, Springer Netherlands, 2005
- Blueprint of a Cross-Lingual Web Retrieval Collection Sigurbjornsson, Borkur ; Kamps, Jaap ; de Rijke, Maarten, Proceedings of the Fifth Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop, 2005
- Language-dependent and Language-independent Approaches to Cross-Lingual Text Retrieval Kamps, Jaap ; Monz, Christof ; de Rijke, Maarten ; Sigurbjornsson, Borkur, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2004
- Processing Content-Oriented XPath Queries Sigurbjornsson, Borkur ; Kamps, Jaap ; de Rijke, Maarten, Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2004), ACM Press, New York NY, USA, 2004
- Approaches to Robust and Web Retrieval Kamps, Jaap ; Monz, Christof ; de Rijke, Maarten ; Sigurbjornsson, Borkur, The Twelfth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2003), 2004
- Multiple sources of evidence for XML retrieval Sigurbjornsson, Borkur ; Kamps, Jaap ; de Rijke, Maarten, SIGIR '04: Proceedings of the 27th Annual International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, ACM Press, 2004
- Length Normalization in XML Retrieval Kamps, Jaap ; de Rijke, Maarten ; Sigurbjornsson, Borkur, Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, ACM Press, New York NY, USA, 2004