Web Scrapping

TESS or changing the way we index to improve user search experience

With my teammates Jean-Marie, Ahmed and Owen we proudly won the first fHACKtory hackathon by implementing a system that took its origin early back during my Phd thesis obtained in 2004. The idea behind TESS is that for many searches we make on the web we get non-adapted results because …

Introduction to Information Extraction from the Web

Just recently, with Mohammed Quafafou, we gave a talk at the ENSIAS in Rabat, Morroco to present “Information Extraction from the Web” (the topic of my thesis). This research topic is about building web scrapper using machine learning algorithms. In particular, supervised learning algorithms are used, but information extraction from …