Finding specification pages according to attributes

Authors:
Naoki Yoshinag;Kentaro Torisaw
Affiliations:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan;Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Ishikawa, Japan
Venue:
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
Year:
2006

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Abstract

This paper presents a method for finding a specification page on the web for a given object (e.g."Titanic ö)and its class label (e.g."film ö). A specification page for an object is a web page which gives concise attribute-value information about the object (e.g."director ö-"James Cameron öfor "Titanic ö). A simple unsupervised method using layout and symbolic decoration cues was applied to a large number of web pages to acquire the class attributes. We used these acquired attributes to select a representative specification page for a given object from the web pages retrieved by a normal search engine. Experimental results revealed that our method greatly outperformed the normal search engine in terms of specification retrieval.