Ontology-Based Automatic Classification for the Web Pages: Design, Implementation and Evaluation

  • Authors:
  • Rudy Prabowo;Mike Jackson;Peter Burden;Heinz-Dieter Knoell

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • WISE '02 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

In recent years, we have witnessed the continual growth inthe use of ontologies in order to provide a mechanism to enablemachine reasoning. This paper describes an automaticclassifier, which focuses on the use of ontologies for classifyingWeb pages with respect to the Dewey Decimal Classification(DDC) and Library of Congress Classification (LCC) schemes.Firstly, we explain how these ontologies can be built in amodular fashion, and mapped into DDC and LCC. Secondly,we propose the formal definition of a DDC-LCC and anontology-classification-scheme mapping. Thirdly, we explainthe way the classifier uses these ontologies to assistclassification. Finally, an experiment in which the accuracy ofthe classifier was evaluated is presented. The experiment showsthat our approach results an improved classification in terms ofaccuracy. This improvement, however, comes at a cost in a lowoverage ratio due to the incompleteness of the ontologies used. c