METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CLASSIFYING DISPLAY PAGES USING SUMMARIES

摘要

A method and system for classifying display pages based on automaticall y generated summaries of display pages. A web page classification system uses a web page summarization system to generate summaries of web pages. The summary of a web page may include the sentences of the web page that are mos t closely related to the primary topic of the web page. The summarization syst em may combine the benefits of multiple summarization techniques to identify th e sentences of a web page that represent the primary topic of the web page. On ce the summary is generated, the classification system may apply conventional classification techniques to the summary to classify the web page. The classification system may use conventional classification techniques such as a Naïve Bayesian classifier or a support vector machine to identify the classifications of a web page based on the summary generated by the summarization system.