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Semantic similarity based trust computation in websites

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Hicham Ibrahim,

Pradeep K. Atrey,

Abdulmotaleb El SaddikAuthors Info & Claims

MS '07: Workshop on multimedia information retrieval on The many faces of multimedia semantics

Pages 65 - 72

https://doi.org/10.1145/1290067.1290079

Published: 28 September 2007 Publication History

Abstract

The World Wide Web has evolved at an extreme rate due to its capacity to provide an endless amount of information to the public users. Hence, the user finds himself lost in a pool of information, without knowing what to trust in order to retain. One could rely on the first website links displayed when renowned web search engines such as Google or Yahoo are invoked. However, are those initial displayed links really trustworthy because they came on top of the list? Can one trust specific information by the simple fact that it has been ranked high by virtue of being accessed frequently by other users? In this paper, we propose a method that overcomes the dependency of user.s feedback and allows one to dynamically compute the trust level of a website of a particular domain based on how semantically similar its content is with a trusted website of the same domain. The experimental results have been provided to demonstrate the utility of the proposed method.

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Index Terms

Semantic similarity based trust computation in websites
1. Applied computing
  1. Document management and text processing
    1. Document preparation
      1. Multi / mixed media creation
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Hypertext / hypermedia

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MS '07: Workshop on multimedia information retrieval on The many faces of multimedia semantics

September 2007

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ISBN:9781595937827

DOI:10.1145/1290067

General Chairs:
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Wayne State University, USA
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University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
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Peter Stanchev
Kettering University, USA

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https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.7695
Ceolin D(2013)Trusting Semi-structured Web DataThe Semantic Web: Semantics and Big Data10.1007/978-3-642-38288-8_50(676-681)Online publication date: 2013
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38288-8_50
Atrey PIbrahim HAnwar Hossain MRamanna SEl Saddik A(2012)Determining trust in media-rich websites using semantic similarityMultimedia Tools and Applications10.1007/s11042-011-0798-x60:1(69-96)Online publication date: 1-Sep-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s11042-011-0798-x
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https://doi.org/10.4236/ijcns.2009.28089

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