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Web information credibility analysis by geographical social support

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Hiroaki Ohshima,

Satoshi Oyama,

Hiroyuki Kondo,

Katsumi TanakaAuthors Info & Claims

IUCS '09: Proceedings of the 3rd International Universal Communication Symposium

Pages 193 - 196

https://doi.org/10.1145/1667780.1667820

Published: 03 December 2009 Publication History

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Since our daily lives strongly depend on information obtained by Web search, the credibility of Web search results has become crucial. An important aspect of the credibility of search results is regionality of Web pages. In this paper, we propose a system for helping users assess the credibility of search results by measuring and presenting the regionality of support to Web pages. We conceive two different types of measures for evaluating "geographical social support": the uniformity of support and the proximity of support. The uniformity of geographical support (US) indicates uniformity of geographic distribution of Web pages linking to a Web page. It is calculated by using the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence. The proximity of geographical support (PS) express how a page is supported by pages geographically located close to the page. We describe our implemented prototype system that shows the two measures for Web search results.

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Shibuki HNagai TNakano MMiyazaki RIshioroshi MMori TJoshi AHuang CJurafsky D(2010)A method for automatically generating a mediatory summary to verify credibility of information on the webProceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Posters10.5555/1944566.1944697(1140-1148)Online publication date: 23-Aug-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1944566.1944697
Tanaka KOhshima HJatowt ANakamura SYamamoto YSumiya KLee RKitayama DYumoto TKawai YZhang JNakajima SInagaki YYou KLee SKim WWon D(2010)Evaluating credibility of web informationProceedings of the 4th International Conference on Uniquitous Information Management and Communication10.1145/2108616.2108645(1-10)Online publication date: 14-Jan-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2108616.2108645

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Web information credibility analysis by geographical social support
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IUCS '09: Proceedings of the 3rd International Universal Communication Symposium

December 2009

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ISBN:9781605586410

DOI:10.1145/1667780

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National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan

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Shibuki HNagai TNakano MMiyazaki RIshioroshi MMori TJoshi AHuang CJurafsky D(2010)A method for automatically generating a mediatory summary to verify credibility of information on the webProceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Posters10.5555/1944566.1944697(1140-1148)Online publication date: 23-Aug-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1944566.1944697
Tanaka KOhshima HJatowt ANakamura SYamamoto YSumiya KLee RKitayama DYumoto TKawai YZhang JNakajima SInagaki YYou KLee SKim WWon D(2010)Evaluating credibility of web informationProceedings of the 4th International Conference on Uniquitous Information Management and Communication10.1145/2108616.2108645(1-10)Online publication date: 14-Jan-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2108616.2108645

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