The term web genre denotes the type of a given web resource, in contrast to the topic of its content. In this research, we focus on recognizing the web genres blog, wiki and forum. We present a set of features that exploit the hierarchical structure of the web page's HTML mark-up and thus, in contrast to related approaches, do not depend on a linguistic analysis of the page's content. Our results show that it is possible to achieve a very good accuracy for a fully language independent detection of structured web genres.
['Philipp Scholl', 'Renato Domínguez García', 'Doreen Böhnstedt', 'Christoph Rensing', 'Ralf Steinmetz']
Towards language-independent web genre detection