Identifying Information Sender Configuration of Web Pages

The source of a piece of information is a crucial element to consider when judging the credibility of that information. In this paper, we address the task of identifying the information source which is cast as a problem of identifying the {em information sender configuration (ISC)} of a Web page. An information sender of a Web page is an entity which is involved in the publication of the information on the page. An ISC of a Web page describes the information senders of the page and the relationship among them. Information sender extraction is thus a subtask of identifying ISC, and we present a method for extracting information senders from Web pages and offer preliminary evaluation. The ISC provides a basis for deeper analysis of information on the Web.