Web object is defined to represent any meaningful object embedded in web pages (e.g. images, music) or pointed to by hyperlinks (e.g. downloadable files). Users usually search for...
Acronyms are widely used in many domains to abbreviate and stress important concepts. Due to its dynamicity and unbounded nature, manual attempts to compose a global scale reposito...
Word meaning disambiguation has always been an important problem in many computer science tasks, such as information retrieval and extraction. One of the problems, faced in automa...
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...
Tools for mining information from data can create added value for the Internet. As the majority of electronic documents available over the network are in unstructured textual form...