How-to information search by lightweight analysis of web pages

Abstract

We propose a method for searching for comprehensible how-to information on the Web. In our how-to information search, we use lightweight analysis of Web pages to extract how-to information from Web pages obtained by conventional Web search engines and rank them according to their easily-viewable-degree. In the extraction process, we focus on expressions in Web page text blocks that describe procedures. In the ranking process, we focus on images, the effect of letter string and the length of the how-to information.