We describe the WebCLEF 2008 task. Similarly to the 2007 edition of WebCLEF, the 2008 edition implements a multilingual "information synthesis" task, where, for a given t...
Readability is a crucial presentation attribute that web summarization algorithms consider while generating a querybaised web summary. Readability quality also forms an important ...
Recently, semantic text portion (STP) is getting popular in the field of Web mining. STP is a text portion in the original page which is semantically related to the anchor pointing...
Polysemy is a problem for methods that exploit image search engines to build object category models. Existing unsupervised approaches do not take word sense into consideration. We...
This paper reports on the development and application of strategies and tools for geographic information seeking and knowledge building that leverages unstructured text resources ...
Brian M. Tomaszewski, Justine Blanford, Kevin Ross...