METHOD FOR LOCATION IDENTIFICATION IN WEB PAGES AND LOCATION-BASED RANKING OF INTERNET SEARCH RESULTS

摘要

The invention relates to a method for determining a geographic location of a service or facility described in a web page by processing location relevant information in a Web page or by using a support vector machine and for location-based ranking by using heuristic functions and an expert system in a localized Internet search. Web pages are preprocessed in different manners to be capable of being applied to a support vector machine. A trained support vector machine determines a location classification of the Web page's content. This location classification is considered by an expert system while ranking a search result.