A collection of posts about my scientific research and academic publications.
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.
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 browsing of photos. We started our tag analysis by mapping tags to WordNet broad categories and found out that while users annotations are sparse, they…
Fannr – Flickr Annotator – was a prototype application for assisting users in annotating their Flickr photos. Two types of annotation support is provided when annotating a single photo: tag recommendation and location recommendation.
Roelof van Zwol, Lluis Garcia Pueyo, Mridul Muralidharan, Börkur Sigurbjörnsson. Ranking Entity Facets based on User Click Feedback. In: Fourth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2010). 2010.
Börkur Sigurbjörnsson and Roelof van Zwol. TagExplorer: Faceted Browsing of Flickr Photos. Yahoo! Labs Technical Report (YL-2010-005). 2010.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.