Visual webpage block importance prediction using conditional random fields.

We have developed a system that segments web pages into blocks and predicts those blocks' importance (block importance prediction or BIP). First, we use VIPS to partition a page into a tree composed of blocks and then extracts features from each block and labels all leaf nodes. This paper makes two...

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Published in:Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology Vol. 62; no. 11; pp. 2225 - 2236
Main Authors: Tzong-Han Tsai, Richard, Chiu, Borong, Wu, Chi-En
Format: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Nov2011
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