As part of a large effort to acquire large repositories of facts from unstructured text on the Web, a seed-based framework for textual information extraction allows for weakly sup...
Search engines largely rely on Web robots to collect information from the Web. Due to the unregulated open-access nature of the Web, robot activities are extremely diverse. Such c...
Tags have recently become popular as a means of annotating and organizing Web pages and blog entries. Advocates of tagging argue that the use of tags produces a 'folksonomy...
Wrapping is the process of navigating a data source, semiautomatically extracting data and transforming it into a form suitable for data processing applications. There are current...
The automatic identification of a user's task has the potential to improve information filtering systems that rely on implicit measures of interest and whose effectiveness ma...