We have developed a prototype system with image discrimination for the filtering and rating of web pages displaying inappropriate content. We used the SafetyOnline rating standard for the system. The rating standard defines five categories having five levels. The system rates web pages and classifies them into five levels of inappropriateness for each category according to the rating standard. ...

Our research explores the possibility of categorizing webpages and webpage genre by structure or layout. Based on our results, we believe that webpage structure could play an important role, along with textual and visual keywords, in webpage categorization and searching.

In this paper, a novel approach is introduced to compare web sites by analysing their web page content. Each web page can be expressed as a set of entities called MicroGenres, which in turn are abstractions about design patterns and genres for representing the page content. This description is useful for web page and web site classification and for a deeper insight into the web site's social co...

Web Page Noise Cleaning is one of the new research area of study for removing the noise patterns of web pages for effective web mining. The World Wide Web contains large amount of web pages which are accessible by users. With conventional data or text, Web pages generally contain a large amount of noise information that is not part of the main contents of the web pages, e.g., advertisement bann...

Automatic web page classification plays an essential role in information retrieval, web mining and web semantics applications. Web pages have special characteristics (such as HTML tags, hyperlinks, etc....) that make their classification different from standard text categorization. Thus, when applied to web data, traditional text classifiers do not usually produce promising results. In this pap...

Methods of web data mining can be divided into several categories according to a kind of mined information and goals that particular categories set: Web structure mining (WSM), Web usage mining (WUM), and Web Content Mining (WCM). The objective of this paper is to propose a new WCM method of a page relevance ranking based on the page content exploration. The method, we call it Page Content Rank...