In order to index Web images, the whole associated texts are partitioned into a sequence of text blocks, then the local relevance of a term to the corresponding image is calculated...
1 The latent semantic indexing (LSI) methodology for information retrieval applies the singular value decomposition to identify an eigensystem for a large matrix, in which cells re...
We describe here a methodology to combine two different techniques for Semantic Relation Extraction from texts. On the one hand, generic lexicosyntactic patterns are applied to the...
This paper proposes a three-stage analysis of web navigation that yields search results being relevant to the user’s interests and preferences. The approach is inspired by ant fo...
In this paper, we identify and analyze structural properties which reflect the functionality of a Web site. These structural properties consider the size, the organization, the co...