Leveraging Webpage Classification for Data Object Recognition

Abstract

Data-rich webpages are providing an increasingly important data source for web applications. While the problem of data object recognition is intensively discussed, it is mostly addressed as a separated process from the frontier task of relevant webpage identification. In this paper, we propose a method to leverage the classification result of data-rich webpages for efficient and scalable data object recognition. A novel context information is proposed, which can be inferred from the webpage classification and exploited in the bottom-up data object recognition. Experimental results show that the context information brings a 19% improvement in the running efficiency of the bottom- up data object recognition.