Annotation of URLs: more than the sum of parts

Recently a number of studies have demonstrated that search engine logfiles are an important resource to determine the relevance relation between URLs and query terms. We hypothesized that the queries associated with a URL could also be presented as useful URL metadata in a search engine result list, e.g. for helping to determine the semantic category of a URL. We evaluated this hypothesis by a classification experiment based on the DMOZ dataset. Our method can also annotate URLs that have no associated queries. Categories and Subject Descriptors: H.3 [Information Storage and Retrieval] General Terms: Experimentation, Human Factors

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: SIGIR
• Authors: Max Hinne, Wessel Kraaij, Stephan Raaijmakers, Suzan Verberne, Theo P. van der Weide, Maarten van der Heijden
• Keywords: Information Retrieval, Search Engine, Search Engine Logfiles, SIGIR 2009, Useful Url Metadata