Practical Issues for Automated Categorization of Web Sites
John M. Pierre · 2000
. In this paper we discuss several issues related to automated text classification of web sites. We analyze the nature of web content and metadata and requirements for text features. We present an approach for targeted spidering including metadata extraction and opportunistic crawling of specific semantic hyperlinks. We describe a system for automatically classifying web sites into industry categories and present performance results based on di#erent combinations of text features and training data.