Abstract:Abstract"Focused Crawler" is designed to visit a part of the web to collect documents that are related to only a particular topic. The objective of focused crawler is to identify good links that lead to target required documents, and to avoid branches that don't lead to the required topic. There is a number of motivations for designing focused crawler such as: fetching relevant data from the web with simplified data indexing, personalizing the human-computer interaction, making the system adaptive with each us… Show more
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