Part-of-speech tagging for client-side link prefetching

  • Authors:
  • A. Georgakis

  • Affiliations:
  • Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

  • Venue:
  • EurolMSA '07 Proceedings of the Third IASTED European Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this paper a client-side algorithm that learns and predicts user requests is presented. The proposed approach is based on a user behavior profile. The profile is based on textual information extracted from visited web pages. The novelty of the paper is in the use of a part-of-speech tagger to filter the useful user-keywords. The keywords comprising the profile are employed by a transparent and speculative link weighting mechanism. The generated weights are used in estimating future web traversing. Afterwards some linked web pages are prefetched and stored locally in the browser's cache. A comparison between the proposed algorithms and four other client-side algorithms yield improved cache-hit rates given a moderate bandwidth overhead.