HITS algorithm improvement using anchor-related text extracted by DOM structure analysis
Yoshinori Hijikata, Bui Quang Hung, Masanori Otsubo, Shogo Nishida · 2009
Kleinberg's HITS algorithm is a popular algorithm to rank web pages. One of its problems is the topic drift problem. Previous researchers have tried to solve this problem using anchor-related text. We proposed another type of anchor-related text in our previous study. This is found by executing a deep analysis on the DOM structures of web pages. We call our anchor-related text DOM-based anchor-related text (DOM-text). In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of using DOM-text for improving the HITS algorithm. We examine how much we can improve the HITS algorithm. We also compare DOM-text with anchor-related text of other kinds. The experimental results show that the use of DOM-text is the best for improving the HITS algorithm.