BlockWeb: An IR Model for Block Structured Web Pages

Author

Bruno, Emmanuel ; Faessel, Nicolas ; Le Maitre, J. ; Scholl, Michel

Author_Institution

LSIS, Univ. du Sud Toulon-Var, La Garde

fYear

2009

fDate

3-5 June 2009

Firstpage

219

Lastpage

224

Abstract

BlockWeb is a model that we have developed for indexing and querying web pages according to their content as well as to their visual rendering. These pages are split up into blocks what has several advantages in terms of page indexing and querying: (i) blocks of a page most similar to a query may be returned instead of the page as a whole (ii) the importance of a block can be taken into account, as well as (iii) the permeability of the blocks to the content of neighbor blocks. In this paper, we present the BlockWeb model and show its interest for indexing images of Web pages, through an experiment performed on electronic versions of French daily newspapers. We also present the engine we have implemented for block extraction, indexing and querying according to the BlockWeb model.

Keywords

Web sites; indexing; query processing; rendering (computer graphics); BlockWeb; IR model; Web page indexing; Web page querying; block structured Web pages; visual rendering; Data mining; Data models; Engines; Indexing; Large scale integration; Permeability; Rendering (computer graphics); Vocabulary; Web pages; XML; block decomposition; image indexing; propagation; web pages;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, 2009. CBMI '09. Seventh International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Chania

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4265-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3662-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CBMI.2009.36

Filename

5137844