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Semi-automatic Creation and Maintenance of Web Resources with webTopic

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Semantics, Web and Mining (EWMF 2005, KDO 2005)

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In this paper we propose a methodology for automatically retrieving document collections from the web on specific topics and for organizing them and keeping them up-to-date over time, according to user specific persistent information needs. The documents collected are organized according to user specifications and are classified partly by the user and partly automatically. A presentation layer enables the exploration of large sets of documents and, simultaneously, monitors and records user interaction with these document collections. The quality of the system is permanently monitored; the system periodically measures and stores the values of its quality parameters. Using this quality log it is possible to maintain the quality of the resources by triggering procedures aimed at correcting or preventing quality degradation.

Supported by the POSC/EIA/58367/2004/Site-o-Matic Project (Fundação Ciência e Tecnologia), FEDER e Programa de Financiamento Plurianual de Unidades de I & D.

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  1. LIACC, Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto,  

    Nuno F. Escudeiro & Alípio M. Jorge

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  1. Department of Natural Language Processing, Institute for Computer Science, University of Leipzig,  

    Markus Ackermann

  2. Department of Computer Science, K.U. Leuven, B-3001, Heverlee, Belgium

    Bettina Berendt

  3. Dept. of Knowledge Technologies, Jozef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Marko Grobelnik

  4. Knowledge & Data Engineering Group, University of Kassel, Wilhelmshöher Allee 73, D-34121, Kassel, Germany

    Andreas Hotho

  5. Jožef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Dunja Mladenič

  6. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Bari, Via E. Orabona, 4, 70125, Bari, Italia

    Giovanni Semeraro

  7. Faculty of Computer Science, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany

    Myra Spiliopoulou

  8. Research Center L3S, Appelstr. 9a, D-30167, Hannover, Germany

    Gerd Stumme

  9. Dept. Information and Knowledge Engineering, University of Economics, Prague, Winston Churchill Sq. 4, 130 67 Praha 3, Prague, Czech Republic

    Vojtěch Svátek

  10. Human Computer Studies Lab, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 419, 1089, Amsterdam, VA, The Netherlands

    Maarten van Someren

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Escudeiro, N.F., Jorge, A.M. (2006). Semi-automatic Creation and Maintenance of Web Resources with webTopic. In: Ackermann, M., et al. Semantics, Web and Mining. EWMF KDO 2005 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4289. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11908678_6

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