About Us

Learn more about our history, publications, and research team dedicated to advancing knowledge.

We are a team of researchers from the Technical University of Valencia (Universitat Politècnica de València – UPV) with many years of experience in Information Retrieval and related subjects. Our laboratory is located at the UPV campus and it is part of the Valencian Research Institute for Articifial Intelligence (VRAIN).

The researchers

Our research institute is formed from more than 100 researchers. Our research group leads information retrieval projects with a subteam of researchers specialized on content extraction and scraping:

Published results

We have published some of our results in conferences and journals. Here are some of them:

  • J. Alarte, C. Galindo, C. Martín, J. Silva. RevEx: An Online Consumer Reviews Extraction Tool. CIKM ‘24: Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. Boise, ID, USA (2024). Published on ACM Digital Library.
  • J. Alarte, J. Silva and S. Tamarit. What Web Template Extractor Should I Use? A Benchmarking and Comparison for Five Template Extractors. ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), Vol. 13, 2 (2019). Published on ACM Digital Library.
  • J. Alarte, D. Insa, J. Silva and S. Tamarit. A Benchmark Suite for Template Detection and Content Extraction. Technical Report (2014). Available on arXiv.

Funding

Throughout the last ten years, we have secured and completed government-funded research projects to study how to best locate each element in a website.

  • Tecnologias de Aprendizaje y Razonamiento Rapido y Lento (FassLow, ref. CIPROM/2022/6). 12 researchers are being funded by the Generalitat Valenciana with 581,571.00 € from Jan. 2023 to Dec. 2026. Principal Investigators: Santiago Escobar and María José Ramirez-Quintana.
  • Analysis and Validation of Software and Web Resources (SAFER, ref. PID2019-104735RB-C41). 10 researchers are being funded by the Spanish Govnerment (MCI) with 116,160.00 € from Jun. 2020 to May 2024. Principal Investigators: Josep Silva and Germán Vidal.
  • Deep Logic Technology for Software Trustworthiness (DeepTrust, ref. PROMETEO/2019/098). 12 researchers were funded by the Generalitat Valenciana with 260,924.00 € from Jan. 2019 to Dec. 2022. Principal Investigator: María Alpuente.
  • Métodos Rigurosos para el Internet del Futuro (MERINET, ref. TIN2016-76843-C4-1-R). 10 researchers were funded by the Spanish Government (AEI/FEDER EU) with 77,718.30 € from Jan. 2017 to Dec. 2019. Principal Investigators: Josep Silva and Germán Vidal.
  • Tecnologías Lógicas para la Seguridad, Modelado, Análisis y Rendimiento del Software (SmartLogic, ref. PROMETEOII/2015/013). 12 researchers were funded by the Generalitat Valenciana with 300,000.00 € from Jan. 2015 to Dec. 2018. Principal Investigator: María Alpuente.
  • Validación Asistida de Programas mediante Métodos Precisos y Rigurosos para una Ingeniería dels Software Robusta (CAVI-ROSE, ref. TIN2013-44742-C4-1-R). 9 researchers were funded by the Spanish Government (MEC) with 90,304.00 € from Jan. 2014 to Dec. 2017. Principal Investigators: Josep Silva and Germán Vidal.