A survey in semantic web technologies-inspired focused crawlers

Dong, Hai; Hussain, Farookh Khadeer; Chang, Elizabeth

doi:10.1109/ICDIM.2008.4746736

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Authors

Dong, Hai

Hussain, Farookh Khadeer

Chang, Elizabeth

Date

2008

Type

Conference Paper

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Citation

Dong, Hai and Hussain, Farookh Khadeer and Chang, Elizabeth. 2008. A survey in semantic web technologies-inspired focused crawlers, in Shoniregun, C.A. (ed), Third IEEE International Conference on Digital Information Management, Nov 13 2008, pp. 934-936. London, UK: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Source Title

Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE international conference on digital information management (ICDIM 2008)

Source Conference

3rd IEEE International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2008)

DOI

10.1109/ICDIM.2008.4746736

ISBN

9781424429165

Faculty

Curtin Business School

School of Information Systems

School

Centre for Extended Enterprises and Business Intelligence

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7518

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Curtin Research Publications

Abstract

Crawlers are software which can traverse the internet and retrieve webpages by hyperlinks. In theface of the inundant spam websites, traditional web crawlers cannot function well to solve this problem.Semantic focused crawlers utilize semantic web technologies to analyze the semantics of hyperlinksand web documents. This paper briefly reviews the recent studies on one category of semantic focusedcrawlers ? ontology-based focused crawlers, which are a series of crawlers that utilize ontologies to linkthe fetched web documents with the ontological concepts (topics). The purpose of this is to organizeand categorize web documents, or filtering irrelevant webpages with regards to the topics. A briefcomparison are made among these crawlers, from six perspectives - domain, working environment,special functions, technologies utilized, evaluation metrics and evaluation results. The conclusion withrespect to this comparison is made in the final section.