Börkur Sigurbjörnsson
Applied scientist and software engineer in the fields of information retrieval and data mining, with a keen eye for putting research ideas into action through prototypes.
Linkedin: http://es.linkedin.com/in/borkursigurbjornsson
Publications: [ACM Digital Library] [Google Scholar] [dblp]
Work Experience
Engineer/Scientist at brandcrumb (2011--present)
Research Scientist at Yahoo! Research (2007--2011)
Research Scientist at University of Amsterdam (2002--2006)
Research Scientist (internship) at Microsoft Research (2005)
Software Engineer at handPoint (2000)
System Administrator BYKO hf. (1998--2000 part-time)
Education
PhD in Computer Science from University of Amsterdam (2002--2006)
M.Sc. in Logic from University of Amsterdam (2001--2002)
B.Sc. in Computer Science from University of Iceland (1996--2000)
B.Sc. in Mathematics from University of Iceland (1996--2000)
Selected Pubclications
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TagExplorer: Faceted Browsing of Flickr Photos.
Yahoo! Labs Technical Report (YL-2010-005).
2010.
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Tags: flickr | image exploration | query refinement | tagging
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Faceted exploration of image search results.
WWW '10: Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web.
2010.
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Tags: entity ranking | image exploration | point of interest detection
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Classifying Tags using Open Content Resources.
Proceedings of the Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2009).
2009.
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Tags: classification | flickr | tagging | wikipedia
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Flickr Tag Recommendation based on Collective Knowledge.
Proceedings of the 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'08).
2008.
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Tags: flickr | recommendation | tagging
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Focused Information Access using XML Element Retrieval.
SIKS Dissertation Series.
2006.
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Tags: information retrieval | xml retrieval
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