Information Management and Big Data

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Annual International Symposium on Information Management and Big Data, SIMBig 2017, held in Lima, Peru, in September 2017.The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 71 submissions. The papers address issues such as Data Science, Big Data, Data Mining, Natural Language Processing, Text Mining, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, Semantic Web, Ontologies, Web Mining, Knowledge Representation and Linked Open Data, Social Web and Web Science, Information Visualization.