The connectivity sonar: detecting site functionality by structural patterns

Web sites today serve many different functions, such as corporate sites, search engines, e-stores, and so forth. As sites are created for different purposes, their structure and connectivity characteristics vary. However, this research argues that sites of similar role exhibit similar structural patterns, as the functionality of a site naturally induces a typical hyperlinked structure and typical connectivity patterns to and from the rest of the Web. Thus, the functionality of Web sites is reflected in a set of structural and connectivity-based features that form a typical signature. In this paper, we automatically categorize sites into eight distinct functional classes, and highlight several search-engine related applications that could make immediate use of such technology. We purposely limit our categorization algorithms by tapping connectivity and structural data alone, making no use of any content analysis whatsoever. When applying two classification algorithms to a set of 20...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: HT
• Authors: Einat Amitay, David Carmel, Adam Darlow, Ronny Lempel, Aya Soffer
• Keywords: HT 2003, Similar Structural Patterns, Typical Connectivity Patterns, Web Sites