Weighting: Inverse Host Frequency (IHF)
• Observation
– Not all URLs are equally
useful
– e.g., aggregator services
• Desired weighting scheme
– Low weights to aggregator
web sites
– High weights to personal and
group publication pages
• Inverse Host Frequency (IHF)
– Similar to Inverse Document
Frequency (IDF) in
information retrieval
• Consider citations of top
100 authors in DBLP (by
number of citations)
• For each such citation,
query search engine with
its title to obtain URLs,
truncate them to their
hostnames
• If a hostname h has
frequency f(h), then its
IHF is