Special issue on intelligent techniques for multimedia information management and personalization

摘要

Over the last decade, we have witnessed an explosive growth in the information available in digital form, especially on the World Wide Web. Today, web browsers and search engines on our PCs provide easy access to a multitude of sources of text and multimedia data; however finding the desired information at the right time is not an easy task. In fact, standard search engines do not consider semantic information that can help in recognizing the relevance of a document with respect to the meaning of a query, so that users have to analyze every document and decide which documents are relevant with respect to the meaning implied in their search.