Apparatus and method for evaluating web pages

• US 20030172349A1
• Filed: 12/24/2002
• Published: 09/11/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Katayama, Yoshinori, Furukawa, Junko, Nishino, Fumihito
• Granted Patent: US 7,395,498 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/513
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/30 of unstructured textual data document management systems G06F16/93
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2216/03 Data mining

Abstract

An evaluation apparatus learns the correspondence between domains and evaluation items from a Web page group in Internet, generates an evaluation set group, and generates a specified domain evaluation set by extracting evaluation items corresponding to the specified domain from the evaluation set group. Then, it evaluates a Web page to be evaluated based on the specified domain evaluation set.

Claims

1. A Web page evaluating method, comprising:

referring to a correspondence between a plurality of domains in Internet and a plurality of evaluation items;

extracting evaluation items corresponding to a specified domain in the plurality of evaluation items;

generating an evaluation set including extracted evaluation items;

computing an evaluation score of a Web page to be evaluated using the evaluation items included by the evaluation set; and

presenting an evaluation result including the evaluation score.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising

learning said correspondence between the plurality of domains and the plurality of evaluation items by extracting information disseminating items set in advance from information in a Web page group.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein

said learning extracts data assigned a tag in advance as an information disseminating item from the information in the Web page group.

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein

said computing checks whether each information disseminating item included in the evaluation set exists in the Web page to be evaluated, and computes the evaluation score.

5. The method according to claim 2, wherein

said computing obtains a hierarchical depth from a top page for the Web page to be evaluated for each information disseminating item contained in the evaluation set, and computes the evaluation score.

6. The method according to claim 2, wherein

said learning analyzes contents information of an information disseminating item, extracts a detailed information item from the contents information, and adds the detailed information item to the evaluation items in the evaluation set.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein

said learning analyzes contents information of the Web page to be evaluated and extracts detailed information items from the Web page to be evaluated, said computing checks whether each detailed information item included by the evaluation set exists among the detailed information items extracted from the Web page to be evaluated, and computes the evaluation score.

8. The method according to claim 6, wherein

said computing checks how detailed information items, which are included in the evaluation set and related each other, are separated in the Web page to be evaluated, and computes the evaluation score.

9. The method according to claim 2, wherein

said learning refers to directory information indicating a system of categories of the Web page group, and classifies the information disseminating items for each category included by the directory information, thereby learning the correspondence between the plurality of domains and the plurality of evaluation items.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein

said learning unifies names of the evaluation items using an ontology for each category of the directory information, and arranges the correspondence between the plurality of domains and the plurality of evaluation items.

11. The method according to claim 9, wherein

said generating interprets one or more categories selected from among the categories included by the directory information as the specified domain, extracts an evaluation item belonging to the selected category, and generates an evaluation set including a correspondence between the extracted evaluation item and a category.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein

said generating assigns a weight of an evaluation for each category to an evaluation item included by the evaluation set, and said computing computes the evaluation score using the assigned weight.

13. The method according to claim 11, further comprising:

obtaining an appropriate representative item name using an ontology depending on a category corresponding to an evaluation item for each category included by the evaluation set; and

presenting the representative item name as a modification candidate.

14. The method according to claim 1, wherein

said generating assigns a weight of an evaluation for each evaluation item to an evaluation item included by the evaluation set, and said computing computes the evaluation score using an assigned weight.

15. The method according to claim 1, wherein

said generating adds an evaluation item specified by a user to the evaluation set.

16. The method according to claim 1, wherein

said computing obtains a display order in the Web page to be evaluated of evaluation items included by the evaluation set, and computes the evaluation score.

17. The method according to claim 1, wherein aid presenting presents an evaluation result containing a specific evaluation item which lowers the evaluation score.

18. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

predicting a change in evaluation score when a new evaluation item is added to the Web page to be evaluated; and

presenting a predicted result.

19. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

checking whether the Web page to be evaluated includes an item other than evaluation items included by the evaluation set; and

presenting the item other than the evaluation items as special information.

20. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

generating meta-information for generation of a new Web page in the specified domain using an evaluation item included by the evaluation set; and

presenting the meta-information.

21. A computer-readable storage medium storing a program used to direct a computer to perform a process, the process comprising:

referring to a correspondence between a plurality of domains in Internet and a plurality of evaluation items stored in advance;

extracting evaluation items corresponding to a specified domain in the plurality of evaluation items;

generating an evaluation set including extracted evaluation items;

computing an evaluation score of a Web page to be evaluated using the evaluation items included by the evaluation set; and

outputting an evaluation result including the evaluation score.

22. A propagation signal for propagating to a computer a program used to direct the computer to perform a process, the process comprising:

referring to a correspondence between a plurality of domains in Internet and a plurality of evaluation items stored in advance;

extracting evaluation items corresponding to a specified domain in the plurality of evaluation items;

generating an evaluation set including extracted evaluation items;

computing an evaluation score of a Web page to be evaluated using the evaluation items included by the evaluation set; and

outputting an evaluation result including the evaluation score.

23. A Web page evaluation apparatus comprising:

a storage device storing a correspondence between a plurality of domains in Internet and a plurality of evaluation items;

a generation device referring to the correspondence between the plurality of domains and the plurality of difference items, extracting evaluation items corresponding to a specified domain in the plurality of evaluation items, and generating an evaluation set including the extracted evaluation items;

an evaluation device computing an evaluation score of a Web page to be evaluated using the evaluation items included by the evaluation set; and

an output device outputting an evaluation result including the evaluation score.

24. A Web page evaluation apparatus comprising:

storage means for storing a correspondence between a plurality of domains in Internet and a plurality of evaluation items;

generation means for referring to the correspondence between the plurality of domains and the plurality of difference items, extracting evaluation items corresponding to a specified domain in the plurality of evaluation items, and generating an evaluation set including the extracted evaluation items;

evaluation means for computing an evaluation score of a Web page to be evaluated using the evaluation items included by the evaluation set; and

output means for outputting an evaluation result including the evaluation score.