Information retrieval tools and search engines have mainly been leveraging research results and technologies developed for the English language. In this paper we report the issues...
The POIROT project is a four-year effort to develop an architecture that integrates the products of a number of targeted reasoning and learning components to produce executable re...
Mark H. Burstein, Fusun Yaman, Robert Laddaga, Rob...
The World-Wide Web is developing very fast. Currently, nding useful information on the Web is a time consuming process. In this paper, we present WebMate, an agent that helps user...
In the last few years, the University of Aveiro, Portugal, has been offering several distance learning courses over the Web, using e-learning platforms. Experience showed that dif...
Recurrent event queries (REQ) constitute a special class of search queries occurring at regular, predictable time intervals. The freshness of documents ranked for such queries is ...