Automatic annotation of online articles based on visual feature classification. (18th July 2011)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Burget, Radek; Burgetova, Ivana
• Is Part Of: International journal of intelligent information and database systems. Volume 5:Number 4(2011)
• Page Start: 338
• Page End: 360
• Publication Date: 2011-07-18
• Subjects: automatic annotation -- online articles -- page segmentation -- document preprocessing -- visual features -- visual analysis -- data mining -- visual feature classification -- web documents -- online papers -- web pages -- visual block detection -- visual blocks -- document annotation; Database management -- Computer programs -- Periodicals; Information retrieval -- Computer programs -- Periodicals; Information storage and retrieval systems -- Computer programs -- Periodicals; Artificial intelligence -- Periodicals; Expert systems (Computer science) -- Periodicals; Intelligent agents (Computer software) -- Periodicals; 006.33
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1751-5858

Abstract

When applying the traditional data mining methods to World Wide Web documents, the typical problem is that a normal web page contains a variety of information of different kinds in addition to its main content. This additional information such as navigation, advertisement or copyright notices negatively influences the results of the data mining methods as for example the content classification. In this paper, we present a method of interesting area detection in a web page. This method is inspired by an assumed human reader approach to this task. First, basic visual blocks are detected in the page and subsequently, the purpose of these blocks is guessed based on their visual appearance. We describe a page segmentation method used for the visual block detection, we propose a way of the block classification based on the visual features and finally, we provide an experimental evaluation of the method on real-world data.