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Vol. III, Issue no. 3,
Information Retrieval and the Web Published on behalf of CEPIS
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Guest Editors: Ricardo Baeza Yates, Peter Schäuble
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Information Retrieval and the Web
Guest
Editors: Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Peter Schäuble
Presentation - Retrieving
Information: A Discipline with a Tradition
Ricardo Baeza-Yates,
Peter Schäuble, Guest Editors
Abstract: The guest
editors introduce rationale and contents for this issue, including also
a list of useful references for those interested in knowing more about
Information Retrieval (IR)
Information Retrieval
for Enterprise Content
Prabakhar Raghavan
Abstract: The author
describes a broad set of commercial applications of IR techniques. He also
elaborates on the differences between Internet and Intranet retrieval.
Information Retrieval
on the Web: A New Paradigm
Jacques Savoy
Abstract: A survey
of information retrieval on the Web is presented with emphasis on distributed
retrieval, link-based ranking, and evaluation of search engines.
An Analysis of Query Languages
for XML
Adelaida Delgado, Ricardo
Baeza-Yates
Abstract: Several
query languages for XML are analysed emphasizing the W3C proposal, Xquery,
from the perspective of semistructured data as well as text retrieval.
Methodologies to develop
Web Information Systems and Comparative Analysis
María José
Escalona, Manuel Mejías, and Jesús Torres
Abstract: This article
presents a comparative analysis of development methodologies for Web Information
Systems.
Distributed Information
Retrieval from Web-Accessible Digital Libraries using Mobile Agents
Alfredo Sanchez, Sandra
Nava,Lourdes Fernández, and Griselda Chevalier
Abstract: An agent-based
framework to support distributed information retrieval from heterogeneous
Web-accessible digital libraries is described.
Automatic Extraction of
Semantically-Meaningful Information from the Web
Rafael Corchuelo, José
Luis Arjona, and Miguel Toro
Abstract: This paper
introduces another agent-based framework for automatic extraction of semantic
information of Web pages.
Ontologies for Database
Federation
Nieves Brisaboa, Miguel
Penabad, Angeles Places, and Francisco Rodríguez
Abstract: Presents
an architecture to integrate Web databases based on ontologies.
System for Compressing
and Retrieving Structured Documents
Joaquín Adiego,
Pablo de la Fuente, Jesús Vegas, and Miguel Villarroel
Abstract: A system
that uses compressed inverted indices to retrieve documents considering
content and structure of SGML or XML documents is described.
TEXRET: An Interactive
TEXture RETrieval System
Javier Ruiz del Solar,
Pablo Navarrete, and Patricio Parada
Abstract: Describes
an interactive system to retrieve textures from image databases using soft-computing
techniques.
The CLEF Campaigns: Evaluation
of Cross-Language Information Retrieval Systems
Martin Braschler, Carol
Peters
Abstract: The authors
describe the European Cross Language Evaluation Forum CLEF. Beside the
US forum Trec and the Japanese forum NTCIR, CLEF is among the major venues
to advance information retrieval technology.
The Web of Spain
Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Abstract: An analysis
of the Spanish Web comparing it to the Brazilian and Chilean Web is presented,
concluding that the results should be similar for the Webs of other European
countries.
Ricardo Baeza-Yates
is Ph.D. in Computer Science (University of Waterloo, Canada). Magister
in Electrical Engineering from the Universidad de Chile, and Computer Science
and Electrical Engineer by the same university. He is currently Tenured
Professor in the Computer Science Department of the Universidad de Chile,
and Director of the Center for Research of the Web <http://www.ciw.cl>.
His fields of research are information retrieval, Web mining, algorithms
and information visualization. He is coauthor of the 2nd edition of the
Handbook of Algorithms and
Data Structures, Addison-Wesley,
1991; and coeditor of Information Retrieval: Algorithms and Data Structures,
Prentice-Hall, 1992. He has also contributed several papers to journals
published by professional organizations such as ACM, ATI, IEEE, and SIAM.
Currently he is president of CLEI (Centro Latinoamericano de Estudios en
Informática), member of the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors
and international coordinator of an Iberoamerican project on models and
techniques for searching the Web financed by the Spanish agency CYTED (Programa
de Cooperación Iberoamericano). In 2000 he began a startup Internet
company to search the Chilean web <http://www.todocl.cl>.
His personal page is at <http://www.baeza.cl>
and he can be reached by e-mail at <rbaeza@dcc.uchile.cl>
Peter Schäuble
is
CEO of Eurospider Information Technology AG, i.e. the leading Swiss expert
in Information Retrieval and providing software for News Monitoring and
Corporate Retrieval <http://www.eurospider.com>.
Prior to this position, he was Assistant Professor of Computer Science
at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich and headed the
Information Retrieval research group. Peter Schäuble has a M.S. (Dipl.
Math. ETH) in mathematics and a PhD (Dr. sc. techn.) in computer science
both from ETH. He has been a technical staff member of the European Space
Agency (ESA) and a visiting scientist at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in
Palo Alto. He published various research papers and books on Information
Retrieval. <Peter.Schauble@eurospider.com>
| Last updated on June 23rd, 2002 | by Rafael Fernández Calvo and François Louis Nicolet |
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