An N-Gram Based Approach to Automatically Identifying Web Page Genre
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The research reported in this paper is the first phase of a larger project on the automatic classification of Web pages by their genres, using n-gram representations of the Web pages. In this study, the textual content of Web pages is used to create feature sets consisting of the most frequent n-grams and their associated frequencies. We present three methods, each of which uses a distance measure to determine the dissimilarity between two feature sets. Each method forms a feature set for every Web page in the test set, however the formation of feature sets from the training set differs between methods: we experiment using one feature set per Web page, per genre, and a combination of genre-based feature sets supplemented by subgenre feature sets. We present results for a balanced corpus of seven genres (blog, eshop, FAQs, front page, listing, home page, and search page). Initial results are encouraging.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it