Sant Pere d’Aüira
A nice and easy hike from the town Campdevànol in the Catalan pre-pyrenees to the the church called Església de Sant Pere d’Aüira.
Machine learned ranking of entity facets
Roelof van Zwol, Lluis Garcia Pueyo, Mridul Muralidharan, Börkur Sigurbjörnsson.
Machine learned ranking of entity facets
In: Proceeding of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval. 2010. (short paper)
Path to Fire
On a sunny Saturday in March 2010 I went for one of the coolest — yet hottest — hikes I have ever done. The path lay up onto the mountain range Fimmvörðuháls — between the glaciers Eyjafjallajökull and Mýrdalsjökull — in the southern highlands of Iceland. It was a cold day with freezing temperatures of minus ten to minus fifteen degrees centigrade. The destination was one of the hottest ones in Iceland at the time — an erupting crater in the northern part of the Fimmvörðuháls mountain range.
Collective Intelligence in Mobile Consumer Social Applications
Sotiris Diplaris, Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Ana Flores, Manuel Escriche, Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, Lluis Garcia Pueyo, Roelof van Zwol.
Collective Intelligence in Mobile Consumer Social Applications
In: Proceedings of the 2010 Ninth International Conference on Mobile Business / 2010 Ninth Global Mobility Roundtable. 2010.
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.
Faceted exploration of image search results
Roelof van Zwol, Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, Ramu Adapala, Lluis Garcia Pueyo, Abhinav Katiyar, Kaushal Kurapati, Mridul Muralidharan, Sudar Muthu, Vanessa Murdock, Polly Ng, Anand Ramani, Anuj Sahai, Sriram Thiru Sathish, Hari Vasudev, and Upendra Vuyyuru.
Faceted exploration of image search results
In: WWW ’10: Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web.
2010.
19a Cursa CEC a Collserola
A 16k running race through the Collserola hills north of Barcelona, Spain. My first ever hilly race away from the city asphalt.
Compressing tags to find interesting media groups
Matthijs van Leeuwen, Francesco Bonchi, Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, and Arno Siebes.
Compressing tags to find interesting media groups
In: Proceeding of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management (CIKM 2009).
2009.
Four Puigmals
A hike up to four peaks called Puigmal in the Pyrenees on the border between Spain and France. The hike started and finished by the French ski resort Puigmal de l’Err.
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 from Flickr photos and Yahoo! Image Search query logs. The resulting data package was generated by the research team and applied by Yahoo! Image Search…