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Web site Classification Track
Overview
The purpose of this track is to evaluate methods of Web site topic classification.For this track the standard procedure is used.
Test Collection
The source dataset consists of BY.web collection and DMOZ collection. The latter is used as a training set.Task Description for Participating Systems
Each participant is granted access to the training set, DMOZ collection, a set of web sites (not single web pages!) from BY.web collection. The task is to assign topics from training set to each web to each web site. Valid number of topics per site is from 0 to 5. Topics should be returned as an ordered list for each web site.
The training set is based on a subset of the Russian-language categories from the DMOZ catalog.
Evaluation Methodology
- instructions for assessors: evaluate web-site relevance to categories basing on the extended category description
- relevance scale:
- yes / probably yes / perhaps yes / no / impossible to evaluate
- yes / no / impossible to evaluate
- official metrics:
- precision
- recall