Implementation of a noisy hyperlink removal system: A semantic and relatedness approach

Abstract: As the volume of data on the web grows, the web structure graph, which is a graph representation of the web, continues to evolve. The structure of this graph has gradually shifted from content-based to non-content-based. Furthermore, spam data, such as noisy hyperlinks, in the web structure graph adversely affect the speed and efficiency of information retrieval and link mining algorithms. Previous works in this area have focused on removing noisy hyperlinks using structural and string approaches. However, these approaches may incorrectly remove useful links or be unable to detect noisy hyperlinks in certain circumstances. In this paper, a data collection of hyperlinks is initially constructed using an interactive crawler. The semantic and relatedness structure of the hyperlinks is then studied through semantic web approaches and tools such as the DBpedia ontology. Finally, the removal process of noisy hyperlinks is carried out using a reasoner on the DBpedia ontology. Our experiments demonstrate the accuracy and ability of semantic web technologies to remove noisy hyperlinks