Operationalising "Websites": lexically, semantically or topologically?

• Isidro F. Aguillo Caño ^[1] ; Natalia Arroyo Vázquez ^[3] ; Viv Cothey ^[2]
  1. [1] Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

     Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

     Madrid, España

     
  2. [2] University of Wolverhampton

     University of Wolverhampton

     GB.ENG.Q3.41UF, Reino Unido

     
  3. [3] Fundación Germán Sánchez Ruipérez

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• Localización: Cybermetrics: International Journal of Scientometrics, Informetrics and Bibliometrics, ISSN-e 1137-5019, Nº. 10, 2006 (Ejemplar dedicado a: What does the Web represent? From virtual ethnography to web indicators")
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Methods to investigate the structure of the Web graph in order to better understand its properties are of interest to many researchers. The scale and complexity of the Web-page digraph is typically managed by aggregating together or clustering individual Web-pages in order to form "Websites". It is the properties of these Websites which then become the focus of research. The most popular Web-page clustering technique is "lexical" and uses the url syntax in order to assign Web-pages to "Websites". Semantic clustering, that is clustering Web-pages according to the similarity of their content has also been proposed. In this paper we consider a third approach to Web-page clustering which is based on the topological properties of the Web-page within the Web-page digraph. We present the technique and report the results of an experiment to compare the use of url-lexically and topologically determined Websites in two sub-domains, one within the Spanish country level domain and the other within the UK country level domain of the Web.