Links tell us about lexical and semantic Web content
| dc.creator | Menczer, Filippo | |
| dc.date | 2001-08-08 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T03:17:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T03:17:24Z | |
| dc.description | The latest generation of Web search tools is beginning to exploit hypertext link information to improve ranking\cite{Brin98,Kleinberg98} and crawling\cite{Menczer00,Ben-Shaul99etal,Chakrabarti99} algorithms. The hidden assumption behind such approaches, a correlation between the graph structure of the Web and its content, has not been tested explicitly despite increasing research on Web topology\cite{Lawrence98,Albert99,Adamic99,Butler00}. Here I formalize and quantitatively validate two conjectures drawing connections from link information to lexical and semantic Web content. The clink-content conjecture states that a page is similar to the pages that link to it, i.e., one can infer the lexical content of a page by looking at the pages that link to it. I also show that lexical inferences based on link cues are quite heterogeneous across Web communities. The link-cluster conjecture states that pages about the same topic are clustered together, i.e., one can infer the meaning of a page by looking at its neighbours. These results explain the success of the newest search technologies and open the way for more dynamic and scalable methods to locate information in a topic or user driven way. | |
| dc.description | 10 pages, 4 figures | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0108004 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0108004 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/30710 | |
| dc.subject | Information Retrieval | |
| dc.subject | Digital Libraries | |
| dc.subject | H.3.1; H.3.3 | |
| dc.title | Links tell us about lexical and semantic Web content | |
| dc.type | text |