Facilitating e-business by retrieving relevant business opportunities on the internet

The Web is a useful medium that contains more and more business opportunities. However, it is often difficult to identify relevant ones using generic search engines. In this paper, we describe a system MBOI dedicated to the matching of business opportunities on the Web. It collects automatically calls for tenders, analyzes and classifies them. User profiles are automatically constructed to help document retrieval. Query translation is also provided in order to allow users to find calls for tenders written in a different language.