Estimating web site readability using content extraction

  • Authors:
  • Thomas Gottron;Ludger Martin

  • Affiliations:
  • Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany;Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World wide web
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Nowadays, information is primarily searched on the WWW. From a user perspective, the readability is an important criterion for measuring the accessibility and thereby the quality of an information. We show that modern content extraction algorithms help to estimate the readability of a web document quite accurate.