Enhanced information retrieval by using HTML']HTML tags

Whenever digital libraries or knowledge management systems are to be automatically filled with web pages from the internet, document classification of the web pages is one of the major challenges. We present an approach which uses HTML tags in order to improve the quality of the hypertext document classification. Our approach uses weighting of HTML tags for separating relevant information in hypertext documents from the noise. We have evaluated our approach on the basis of a document classification algorithm. The results show that our weighting approach yields a classification which is approximately 35% better than a classification without the use of the HTML tagging information.