Finding specification pages according to attributes

This paper presents a method for finding a specification page on the web for a given object (e.g., "Titanic") and its class label (e.g., "film"). A specification page for an object is a web page which gives concise attribute-value information about the object (e.g., "director"-"James Cameron" for "Titanic"). A simple unsupervised method using layout and symbolic decoration cues was applied to a large number of web pages to acquire the class attributes. We used these acquired attributes to select a representative specification page for a given object from the web pages retrieved by a normal search engine. Experimental results revealed that our method greatly outperformed the normal search engine in terms of specification retrieval. Categories and Subject Descriptors: H.3.1 [Information Storage and Retrieval]: Content Analysis and Indexing--linguistic processing; H.3.3 [Information Storage and Retrieval]: Information Search and Retrieval...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Naoki Yoshinaga, Kentaro Torisawa
• Keywords: Internet Technology, Normal Search Engine, Specification Page, Specification Retrieval, WWW 2006