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Assessing Semantic Quality of Web Directory Structure

Information Retrieval 2015-06-15 v1 Digital Libraries

Abstract

The administration of a Web directory content and associated structure is a labor intensive task performed by human domain experts. Because of that there always exists a realistic risk of the structure becoming unbalanced, uneven and difficult to use to all except for a few users proficient in a particular Web directory. These problems emphasize the importance of generic and objective measures of Web directories structure quality. In this paper we demonstrate how to formally merge Web directories into the Semantic Web vision. We introduce a set of objective criterions for evaluation of a Web directory's structure quality. Some criteria functions are based on heuristics while others require the application of ontologies.

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@article{arxiv.1302.2615,
  title  = {Assessing Semantic Quality of Web Directory Structure},
  author = {Marko Horvat and Gordan Gledec and Nikola Bogunović},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.2615},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

12 pages, 6 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1302.2222

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