Web Research Group

HyperGraph

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A Modular and Extensible Platform for Web Mining:

This project is about modelling, designing and implementing a modular and extensible platform to collect, process and store Web data. The platform will have the following components:

(a) Recollection and extraction of Web data
(b) Object storage (data, metadata, views, and relations)
(c) Formal algebra for data processing including operations for information retrieval, similarity, ranking, management of objects, graphs and temporal sequences, and statistics
(d) Visualization of views and relations.

This platform not only allows to develop faster new Web mining applications, but also allows to repeat the process each time the Web data changes (the Web is intrinsically very dynamic), as views and relations are generated by a sequence of operations in the mentioned algebra.

Cooperation in Projects

Participation on the CYTED RIBIDI (Red Iberoamericana de Bibliotecas Digitales) Project.

At the moment this group collaborate with some universities of different countries in the world, in particular with the Center for Web Research (CWR) of the Chile University.

Participation on the ALFA project (AML/B7-311/97/0666/II-0291-FA)

The project intends to strengthen the training of PhD Students and the capabilities of researchers in the key area of Multimedia Information Retrieval, through the network flows, through extensive use of Internet (setting up collaborative tools); and through the creation of a body of high-quality educational content delivered throuhgh Internet.