Gerindo: New Technologies for Managing and Processing Information in Documents

We present in this report a summary of the main results produced in the first two years of the Gerindo research project. The aim of this project is to address the increasing demand for software capable of dealing with information available in large document collections, such as the World Wide Web. It involves efforts of researchers from three Brazilian universities to develop core technologies for a number of document management applications demanded by today’s information society. These efforts are concentrated in five main research topics: document categorization, semistructured data management, information retrieval models, efficiency issues in information retrieval, and data mining. Besides specific contributions in these five research topics, the project has stimulated the interaction among the researchers of the three universities who have worked together to solve challenging problems using a combination of different approaches. As a consequence, we expect the project will produce even stronger results in the next two years.