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...
Recently, along with the rapid growth of the Web, the preservation efforts have also increased. As a consequence, large amounts of past Web data are stored in Web archives. This h...
Topic representation mismatch is a key problem in topic-oriented summarization for the specified topic is usually too short to understand/interpret. This paper proposes a novel ad...
In order to produce, a good summary, one has to identify the most relevant portions of a given text. We describe in this t)at)er a method for automatically training tel)it, signat...
Abstract. Large document collections, such as those delivered by Internet search engines, are difficult and time-consuming for users to read and analyse. The detection of common an...