Assessing the Quality of Web Content

This paper describes our approach towards the ECML/PKDD Discovery Challenge 2010. The challenge consists of three tasks: (1) a Web genre and facet classification task for English hosts, (2) an English quality task, and (3) a multilingual quality task (German and French). In our approach, we create an ensemble of three classifiers to predict unseen Web hosts whereas each classifier is trained on a different feature set. Our final NDCG on the whole test set is 0.537 for Task 1, 0.844 for Task 2, and 0.823 (French) and 0.793 (German) for Task 3, which ranks fourth place in the ECML/PKDD Discovery Challenge 2010.