Fwd: [webspam-announces] Web Spam Collection Announced

[Stefan Groschupf <sg...@101tec.com>]

Hi,
May be some people will find that posting interesting.
Webspam is one of the biggest issues or nutch for whole web crawls  
from my POV.

Greetings,
Stefan


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> During AIRWeb'06 we announced the availability of the collection.
>
> We are currently planning a Web Spam challenge based on the dataset we
> have built. I assume most of you will be interested on this, so I have
> moved the "webspam-volunteers" list to "webspam-announces". If you do
> not want to be in this new "webspam-announces" list, please send me an
> e-mail.
>
> This was shown during AIRWeb in Seattle:
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> Web Spam Collection Available
> August 10th, 2006
>
> We are pleased to announce the availability of a public collection for
> research on Web spam. This collection is the result of efforts by a
> team of volunteers:
>
> Thiago Alves    Antonio Gulli            Tamas Sarlos
> Luca Becchetti  Zoltan Gyongyi           Mike Thelwall
> Paolo Boldi     Thomas Lavergn           Belle Tseng
> Paul Chirita    Alex Ntoulas             Tanguy Urvoy
> Mirel Cosulschi Josiane-Xavier Parreira  Wenzhong Zhao
> Brian Davison   Xiaoguang Qi
> Pascal Filoche  Massimo Santini
>
> The corpus is a large set of Web pages in 11,000 {\tt .uk} hosts
> downloaded in May 2006 by the Laboratory of Web Algorithmics,
> Universit{\`a} degli Studi di Milano. The labelling process was
> coordinated by Carlos Castillo working at the Algorithmic Engineering
> group at Universit{\`a} di Roma ``La Sapienza'' The project was funded
> by the DELIS project (Dynamically Evolving, Large Scale Information
> Systems).
>
> Volunteers were provided with a set of guidelines and were asked to
> mark a set of hosts as either normal, spam, or borderline. The
> collection includes about 6,700 judgments done by the volunteers and
> can be used for testing link-based and content-based Web spam
> detection and demotion techniques.
>
> More information is available in our Web page, including the
> guidelines given to the human judges, the instructions for obtaining
> the links and contents of the pages in this collection, and the
> contact information for questions and comments.
>
> http://aeserver.dis.uniroma1.it/webspam/
>
> If you use this data set please subscribe to our mailing list by
> sending an e-mail to webspam-announces-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
>
> --
> Carlos Castillo
> Universita di Roma "La Sapienza"
> Rome, ITALY
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