Education

Work Experience

Researcher at Yahoo! Research Barcelona
March 2007 - present

Researcher at University of Amsterdam (ILPS group)
November 2002 - December 2006

Research Intern at Microsoft Research (IR group in Cambridge)
September 2005 - November 2005

Software Engineer at handPoint
April 2000 - December 2000

System Administrator at BYKO hf.
May 1998 - May 2000 (summer:full-time, winter:part-time)

Selected Publications

Börkur Sigurbjörnsson. Focused Information Access using XML Element Retrieval. University of Amsterdam. SIKS Dissertation Series (nr. 2006-28). 2006. [abstract/bibtex] [pdf]

Jaap Kamps, Maarten Marx, Maarten de Rijke, and Börkur Sigurbjörnsson. Articulating Information Needs in XML Query Languages. In: ACM Transactions on Information Systems. Volume: 24. Number: 4. Pages: 407-436. 2006. [abstract/bibtex] [acm]

Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, Jaap Kamps, and Maarten de Rijke. EuroGOV: Engineering a Multilingual Web Corpus. In: Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories: 6th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Volume: 4022. Pages: 825-836. 2006. [abstract/bibtex] [springerlink]

Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, Jaap Kamps, and Maarten de Rijke. Focused Access to Wikipedia. In: 6th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR 2006). Pages: 73-80. 2006. [abstract/bibtex] [pdf]

J. Kamps, M. Marx, M. de Rijke, and B. Sigurbjörnsson. Structured Queries in XML Retrieval. In: Proceedings of CIKM 2005. Pages: 4-11. 2005. [acm]

B. Sigurbjörnsson, J. Kamps, and M. de Rijke. Processing Content-Oriented XPath Queries. In: Proceedings CIKM 2004. Pages: 371-380. 2004. [acm]

J. Kamps, M. de Rijke, and B. Sigurbjörnsson. Length Normalization in XML Retrieval. In: Proceedings SIGIR 2004. Pages: 80-87. 2004. [acm]

B. Sigurbjörnsson, J. Kamps, and M. de Rijke. An Element-Based Approach to XML Retrieval. In: INEX 2003 Workshop Proceedings. Pages: 19-26. 2004. [pdf]

Complete list of publications

Professional activities

Organizing committees

CLEF Cross-lingual Web-retrieval Track (WebCLEF 2005) (2005)

Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX 2004, INEX 2005) (2004-2005)

Program committees

Multimedia Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2007 Workshop) (2007)

The First Twente Data Management Workshop - TDM'04 (2004)

Reviewer

Information Systems, SPIRE 2007, ACM-TOIS, ICDE 2007, ACM-PODS 2006, SIGIR 2005, ECIR 2005, JIS, and JoLLLI.

Other

Editor of Verpill, journal of Mathematics- and Physics Students at the University of Iceland (1998)


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