Webpage Genre Identification Using Variable-Length Character n-Grams

An important factor for discriminating between Web pages is their genre (e.g., blogs, personal homepages, e-shops, online newspapers, etc). Web page genre identification has a great potential in information retrieval since users of search engines can combine genre-based and traditional topic-based q...

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Published in19th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence(ICTAI 2007) Vol. 2; pp. 3 - 10
Main Authors Kanaris, I., Stamatatos, E.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.10.2007
Subjects
Artificial intelligence
Automatic control
Blogs
Data mining
Frequency
HTML
Information retrieval
Navigation
Robustness
Search engines
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Summary:An important factor for discriminating between Web pages is their genre (e.g., blogs, personal homepages, e-shops, online newspapers, etc). Web page genre identification has a great potential in information retrieval since users of search engines can combine genre-based and traditional topic-based queries to improve the quality of the results. So far, various features have been proposed to quantify the style of Web pages including word and HTML-tag frequencies. In this paper, we propose a low-level representation for this problem based on character n-grams. Using an existing approach, we produce feature sets of variable-length character n- grams and combine this representation with information about the most frequent HTML-tags. Based on two benchmark corpora, we present Web page genre identification experiments and improve the best reported results in both cases.
ISBN:076953015X
9780769530154
ISSN:1082-3409
2375-0197
DOI:10.1109/ICTAI.2007.107