Connectivity inferences over the web for the analysis of semantic networks
International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology
Connectivity inferences over the web for the analysis of semantic networks
W2GIS'05 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems
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It is very important to identify web pages strongly relatedto some locations. In this paper, we introduce the concept ofthe degree of locality which shows the strength of relationshipsbetween a web page and specific locations. Use of locationnames appearing in one web page is a conventionalway to identify local pages. We cannot use the number ofappearances of location names as the measure of locality,since the same location name usually will not be repeatedoften even if the name is important. We will introduce "AreaExpansion" technique to identify local pages. In order todetermine the degree of locality we will use link informationas well. For example, the degree of locality of a webpage will be increased, if the page is connected from localpages or connected to local pages. By repeated applicationsof this process, we can calculate the degree of localities forweb pages. The method to handle the cases when the graphwhose vertices corresponding to local pages are not connected,will be also discussed. Two methods are developedand experimental results show usefulness of the algorithm.