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2006 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
A Heuristic Approach for Topical Information Extraction from News Pages
Authors : Yan Liu, Qiang Wang, QingXian Wang
Published in: Web Information Systems – WISE 2006
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Topical information extraction from news pages could facilitate news searching and retrieval etc. A web page could be partitioned into multiple blocks. The importance of different blocks varies from each other. The estimation of the block importance could be defined as a classification problem. First, an adaptive vision-based page segmentation algorithm is used to partition a web page into semantic blocks. Then spatial features and content features are used to represent each block. Shannon’s information entropy is adopted to represent each feature’s ability for differentiating. A weighted Naïve Bayes classifier is used to estimate whether the block is important or not. Finally, a variation of TF-IDF is utilized to represent weight of each keyword. As a result, the similar blocks are united as topical region. The approach is tested with several important English and Chinese news sites. Both recall and precision rates are greater than 96%.