Web site Classification Track

Overview

For this track the standard procedure is used.

Test Collection

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

Data Formats

• collections
• training set
• results