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Since syntactically different URLs could represent the same resource in WWW, there are on-going efforts to define the URL normalization in the standard communities. This paper considers the three additional URL normalization steps beyond ones specified in the standard URL normalization. The idea behind our work is that in the URL normalization we want to minimize false negatives further while allowing false positives in a limited level. Two metrics are defined to analyze the effect of each step in the URL normalization. Over 170 million URLs that were collected in the real web pages, we did an experiment, and interesting statistical results are reported in this paper.
This work was supported by Korea Research Foundation Grant. (KRF-2004-005-D00172)
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Lee, S.H., Kim, S.J., Hong, S.H. (2005). On URL Normalization. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2005. ICCSA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3481. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11424826_115
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