Information Extraction, Search, Interaction and Collaboration on the Web in Mexico

Web research in Mexico has been addressing issues related mainly to search mechanisms, information extraction, and mediating user interaction and group collaboration. In this paper we provide an overview of representative projects in the area and present a sample of recent advances by research groups in Mexican institutions. These include initiatives aimed to exploring extraction techniques that regard the Web as a corpus, indexing and categorizing multimedia Web contents, and designing user interfaces for visualizing Web-accessible collections as well as environments for synchronous and asynchronous Web collaboration.