Education
2006: PhD in Computer Science from University of Amsterdam
2002: M.Sc. in Computational Logic from University of Amsterdam
2000: B.Sc. in Computer Science from University of Iceland
2000: B.Sc. in Mathematics from University of Iceland
Work Experience
Researcher at Yahoo! Research Barcelona
March 2007
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present
Researcher at University of
Amsterdam
(ILPS group)
November 2002
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December 2006
Research Intern at Microsoft
Research
(IR
group
in Cambridge)
September 2005
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November
2005
Software Engineer at handPoint
April 2000
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December 2000
System Administrator at BYKO hf.
May 1998
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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]
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)