dealmaker wrote:
Hi, Does Nutch or any plugin have the template detection? It seems that navigation and footer sections usually distort the ranking of search results. Is there already open source project or code that I can integrate to Nutch to give it the ability of template detection? Thanks.
There is no ready-made component in Nutch for this task. The task itself is complicated and there are no ideal solutions. There are several algorithms described in the literature, primarily falling into two groups: page-at-a-time (usually single pass) and whole-corpus (usually several passes). They work with varying degrees of success, strongly dependent on the test corpus.
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