We present in this article a summary of the main research efforts and results produced by the Database and Information Retrieval group of the Universidade Federal do Amazonas in the last years. The main focus of the research carried out by the group is on the areas of Data Management, Information Retrieval and Data Mining applied to the context of the World-Wide Web. The ultimate goal is developing cutting-edge technologies for a number of important Web applications. The complementary expertise

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... of the researchers in the group allows the development of interdisciplinary work related to these three areas and gives the group a singular profile and a solid basis for providing high impact solutions to practical problems in several research topics.