Separating XHTML content from navigation clutter using DOM-structure block analysis

Constantine Mantratzis; Mehmet Orgun; Steve Cassidy

doi:10.1145/1083356.1083384

Separating XHTML content from navigation clutter using DOM-structure block analysis

Constantine Mantratzis^*, Mehmet Orgun, Steve Cassidy

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Computing

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Abstract

This short paper gives an overview of the principles behind an algorithm that separates the core-content of a web document from hyperlinked-clutter such as text advertisements and long links of syndicated references to other resources.Its advantage over other approaches is its ability to identify both loosely as well as tightly defined "table-like" or "list-like" structures of hyperlinks (from nested tables to simple, bullet-pointed lists) by operating at various levels within the DOM tree.The resulting data can then be used to extract the core-content from a web document for semantic analysis or other information retrieval purposes as well as to aid in the process of "clipping" a web document to its bare essentials for use with hardware-limited devices such as PDAs and cell phones.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the HT 2005 - Sixteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia 6-9 Sept. 2005, Salzburg, Austria
Editors	Siegfried Reich, Manolis Tzagarkis
Place of Publication	New York, NY
Publisher	ACM
Pages	145-147
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Print)	1595931686, 9781595931689
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1083356.1083384
Publication status	Published - Sep 2005
Event	16th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, HT - 2005 - Salzburg, Austria Duration: 6 Sep 2005 → 9 Sep 2005

Other

Other	16th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, HT - 2005
Country	Austria
City	Salzburg
Period	6/09/05 → 9/09/05

Keywords

Content extraction
DOM tree
HTML document
Hyperlink lists
Information retrieval
XHTML document

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Mantratzis, C, Orgun, M & Cassidy, S 2005, Separating XHTML content from navigation clutter using DOM-structure block analysis. in S Reich & M Tzagarkis (eds), Proceedings of the HT 2005 - Sixteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia 6-9 Sept. 2005, Salzburg, Austria. ACM, New York, NY, pp. 145-147, 16th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, HT - 2005, Salzburg, Austria, 6/09/05. https://doi.org/10.1145/1083356.1083384

Separating XHTML content from navigation clutter using DOM-structure block analysis. / Mantratzis, Constantine; Orgun, Mehmet ; Cassidy, Steve.

Proceedings of the HT 2005 - Sixteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia 6-9 Sept. 2005, Salzburg, Austria. ed. / Siegfried Reich; Manolis Tzagarkis. New York, NY : ACM, 2005. p. 145-147.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution

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