Web Site: a structured document

  • Authors:
  • Antoine Gagneux;Hubert Emptoz

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICDAR '03 Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

A web site is a set of web pages and hypertexts links.The contribution of this paper is a description of websites also called web documents as a structured objectwith a logical and a physical structure. Indeed, it willshow that the web document can be divided intogeometrical blocks (physical structure) and furthermoreeach page of a site has an individual function, each canbe classified within a meaning (logical function).An application of this object is also described using aneye-tracking experiment. For this experiment, some webdocuments was studied with the same methodology thanthat used for paper documents. Two eye-tracking resultsare developed and for each the usual meaning fordocument and the signification in the context of webdocuments will be described. The results show the strongrelationship between the structure and the userperception of web document. Two eye-tracking data werederived from the results: the number of fixation per webdocument and the number of blocks (pages) seen are bothcorrelated with structure descriptors.