Annotating URLs with query terms: What factors predict reliable annotations?
Suzan Verberne, Max Hinne, Maarten van der Heijden, Wessel Kraaij, Eva D’Hondt, Theo van der Weide · Radboud Repository (Radboud University) · 2009
A number of recent studies have investigated the relation between URLs and associated query terms from search engine log files.In [5], the query terms associated with the domain of a URL were used as features for a URL classification task.The idea is that query terms that lead to successful classification of a URL are reliable semantic descriptors of the URL content.We follow up on this work by investigating which properties of a URL and its associated query terms predict the classification success.We construct a number of URL and query properties as predictors and proceed to analyze these in-depth.We conclude that the classification success -and thus the reliability of the query terms as URL descriptors -cannot easily be predicted from properties of the URL and the queries.