A binary-categorization approach for classifying multiple-record Web documents using application ontologies and a probabilistic model

Abstract

The amount of information available on the World Wide Web has been increasing dramatically in recent years. To enhance speedy searching and retrieving Web documents of interest, researchers and practitioners have partially relied on various information retrieval techniques. We propose a probabilistic model to classify Web documents into relevant documents and irrelevant documents with respect to a particular application ontology, which is a conceptual-model snippet of standard ontologies. Our probabilistic model is based on multivariate statistical analysis and is different from the conventional probabilistic information retrieval models. The experiments we have conducted on a set of representative Web documents indicate that the proposed probabilistic model is promising in binary-categorization of multiple-record Web documents.