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Silk from a Sow's Ear: Extracting Usable Structures from the Web (1996)
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Pirolli96silkfrom,
author = {Peter Pirolli and Jame Pitkow and James Pitkow and Ramana Rao},
title = {Silk from a Sow's Ear: Extracting Usable Structures from the Web},
booktitle = {},
year = {1996},
pages = {118--125},
publisher = {ACM Press}
}
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Abstract
In its current implementation, the World-Wide Web lacks much of the explicit structure and strong typing found in many closed hypertext systems. While this property has directly fueled the explosive acceptance of the Web, it further complicates the already difficult problem of identifying usable structures and aggregates in large hypertext collections. These reduced structures, or localities, form the basis to simplifying visualizations of and navigation through complex hypertext systems. Much of the previous research into identifying aggregates utilize graph theoretic algorithms based upon structural topology, i.e., the linkages between items. Other research has focused on content analysis to form document collections. This paper presents our exploration into techniques that harness both the topology and textual similarity between items as well as integrate new analyses based upon actual usage of the Xerox's WWW space. Linear equations and spreading activation models are employed to arrange Web pages based upon functional categories, node types, and relevancy. Keywords Information Visualization, World Wide Web, Hypertext.
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extracting usable structure world-wide web document collection linear equation functional category reduced structure explicit structure actual usage content analysis textual similarity integrate new analysis keywords information visualization difficult problem strong typing explosive acceptance hypertext system aggregate utilize graph theoretic algorithm node type structural topology current implementation activation model previous research world wide web large hypertext collection complex hypertext system usable structure www space web page
