It is crucial for cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) systems to deal with the translation of unknown queries1 due to that real queries might be short. The purpose of this...
The Web is based on a browsing paradigm that makes it di cult to retrieve and integrate data from multiple sites. Today, the only way to do this is to build specialized applicatio...
To simplify the task of obtaining information from the vast number of information sources that are available on the World Wide Web (WWW), we are building tools to build informatio...
Abstract A rich family of generic Information Extraction (IE) techniques have been developed by researchers nowadays. This paper proposes WebKER, a system for automatically extract...
A relatively new avenue of Web-based information retrieval research, intended to semantically improve information extraction, is the idea of using geographical information to accu...