Text-Based Web Page Classification with Use of Visual Information

As the number of pages on the web is permanently increasing, there is a need to classify pages into categories to facilitate indexing or searching them. In the method proposed here, we use both textual and visual information to find a suitable representation of web page content. In this paper, several term weights, based on TF or TF-IDF weighting are proposed. Modification is based on visual areas, in which the text appears and their visual properties. Some results of experiments are included in the final part of the paper.