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...
Knowledge Provenance is an approach to determining the origin and validity of knowledge/information on the web by means of modeling and maintaining information sources and dependen...
The new concept proposed in this paper is a query free web search that automatically retrieves a web page including information related to the daily activity that we are currently...
The crawler engines of today cannot reach most of the information contained in the Web. A great amount of valuable information is "hidden" behind the query forms of onli...
This paper contributes to a facet from the area of Web Information Retrieval that has recently received much attention: The satisfaction of a user's personal information need ...