High performance environment for knowledge discovering in Portuguese language texts in the Web

Abstract

This paper describes the development and implementation of a practical and efficient methodology to construct a knowledge extraction environment that contemplates the search of information from Portuguese language Web sites. The application includes some text mining facilities, such as similarity and difference identification between pages and sites, content classification and document clustering.The application conception has its origin on the evaluation environment of competitive intelligence tasks over the Web. The increasing availability of information in the Web has motivated the proposal of an environment that presents the solutions in an integrated form, supplying results analysis according to the user indication.