The Web contains vast amounts of linguistic data. One key issue for linguists and language technologists is how to access it. Commercial search engines give highly compromised acc...
An important factor for discriminating between webpages is their genre (e.g., blogs, personal homepages, e-shops, online newspapers, etc). Webpage genre identification has a great...
Information Retrieval (IR) is a major component in many of our daily activities, with perhaps its most prominent role manifested in search engines. Today’s most advanced engines...
GeoCLEF ran as a regular track for the second time within the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2007. The purpose of GeoCLEF is to test and evaluate cross-language geographic ...
Thomas Mandl, Fredric C. Gey, Giorgio Maria Di Nun...
One of the main interests in the Web Information Retrieval research area is the identification of the user interests and needs so the search engines and tools can help the users t...