This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Flexible
Query Answering Systems FQAS 2009 held in Roskilde Denmark in October 2009. The 57 papers
included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions. They are
structured in topical sections on database management information retrieval extraction and
mining ontologies and semantic web intelligent information extraction from texts advances in
fuzzy querying personalization preferences context and recommendation and Web as a stream.
