Soft Computing in Web Information Retrieval: Models and Applications

This book presents some recent works on the application of Soft Computing techniques in information access on the World Wide Web. The book comprises 15 chapters from internationally known researchers and is divided in four parts reflecting the areas of research of the presented works such as Document Classification, Semantic Web, Web Information Retrieval and Web Applications. This book demonstrates that Web Information Retrieval is a stimulating area of research where Soft Computing technologies can be applied satisfactorily…

The World Wide Web, or simply theWeb, is a popular and interactive medium to collect, disseminate, and access an increasingly huge amount of information. Nowadays, information access on the Web is the main problem of the so called Web Information Retrieval (IR). The Web represents a new framework that is rather different from with respect to the traditional IR framework and sheds new and difficult challenges.

Furthermore, due to this complexity, any major advance in the field of information access on the Web requires the application of intelligent techniques. In fact, several authors suggest to proceed towards the Web Intelligence by incorporating and embedding some form of intelligence (such as learning capabilities, and tolerance to uncertainty, vagueness and imprecision) in Web technologies.