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.
