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Record W4246852754 · doi:10.1145/584800.584802

Topic-oriented collaborative crawling

2002· article· en· W4246852754 on OpenAlexaff
Chiasen Chung, Charles L. A. Clarke

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicWeb Data Mining and Analysis
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Waterloo
Fundersnot available
KeywordsWeb crawlerCrawlingComputer scienceFocused crawlerHash functionInformation retrievalWeb pageWorld Wide WebContext (archaeology)Data miningDatabaseStatic web pageWeb navigationComputer security

Abstract

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A major concern in the implementation of a distributed Web crawler is the choice of a strategy for partitioning the Web among the nodes in the system. Our goal in selecting this strategy is to minimize the overlap between the activities of individual nodes. We propose a topic-oriented approach, in which the Web is partitioned into general subject areas with a crawler assigned to each. We examine design alternatives for a topic-oriented distributed crawler, including the creation of a Web page classifier for use in this context. The approach is compared experimentally with a hash-based partitioning, in which crawler assignments are determined by hash functions computed over URLs and page contents. The experimental evaluation demonstrates the feasibility of the approach, addressing issues of communication overhead, duplicate content detection, and page quality assessment.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.015
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.005
Threshold uncertainty score0.025

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.015
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.001
Bibliometrics0.0030.003
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0030.003
Open science0.0030.003
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.002

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.

Opus teacher head0.015
GPT teacher head0.222
Teacher spread0.206 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2002
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