Abstract Even the best information retrieval model cannot always identify the most useful answers to a user query. This is in particular the case with web search systems, where it ...
In the ocean of Web data, Web search engines are the primary way to access content. As the data is on the order of petabytes, current search engines are very large centralized sys...
Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Carlos Castillo, Flavio Ju...
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...
This paper aims to describe a platform that was created for Spanish government in order to unify the different publishers' web site. Working on the principle that the impleme...
In this paper we present a methodology to extract information from the Web to build a taxonomy of terms and Web resources for a given domain. This taxonomy represents a hierarchy o...