We describe the WebCLEF 2008 task. Similarly to the 2007 edition of WebCLEF, the 2008 edition implements a multilingual "information synthesis" task, where, for a given t...
: The number of information sources in the Web is growing day by day with a tremendous speed. At the same time, users tend to manage more and more tasks electronically, thereby usi...
In the past, many attempts have been made to improve the interoperability between different Web-based information systems. In most approaches the remaining problems are still twof...
Nowadays, information is primarily searched on the WWW. From a user perspective, the readability is an important criterion for measuring the accessibility and thereby the quality ...
Automating semantic matching of attributes for the purpose of information integration is challenging, and the dynamics of the Web further exacerbate this problem. Believing that m...