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Automatic Generation of Web Directories for Specific Categories (1999)
| Venue: | School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology |
| Citations: | 3 - 0 self |
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@TECHREPORT{Sato99automaticgeneration,
author = {Satoshi Sato and Madoka Sato},
title = {Automatic Generation of Web Directories for Specific Categories},
institution = {School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology},
year = {1999}
}
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Abstract
This is a preliminary report of our study on automatic generation of web directories. We now concentrate on generation of web directories for specific categories such as aquarium, zoo, and museum. From only a category word (e.g., aquarium), our system generates the directory of the category's instances, in which instances are classified by geographical region, without any human interaction. 1 Introduction The World Wide Web (WWW) is now the popular resource when we look for certain information. Usually we start information hunting from keyword retrieval using a search engine, or from browse of a large web directory such as Yahoo. However, we sometimes cannot find the web page that contains the desired information, because current search engines and directories are not effective enough to navigate the unorganized and chaotic WWW space. A search engine with a large index outputs the list of too many web pages to select appropriate pages. Categorization of web directories that cover wh...
Keyphrases
web directory automatic generation specific category search engine geographical region world wide web certain information current search engine many web page popular resource preliminary report appropriate page large index keyword retrieval chaotic www space web page information hunting human interaction desired information large web directory category word
