Assessing Semantic Quality of Web Directory Structure

  • Authors:
  • Marko Horvat;Gordan Gledec;Nikola Bogunović

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia 10000;Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia 10000;Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia 10000

  • Venue:
  • ICCCI '09 Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence. Semantic Web, Social Networks and Multiagent Systems
  • Year:
  • 2009

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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.