Assigning BSH Headings to People on the Web

Abstract

We investigate a method that assigns Basic Subject Headings (BSH) 4th edition to the results of web people searches to help users select and understand people on the web. By assigning BSH headings to people, well-formed keywords can be assigned. In this paper, we examine the following combination of factors: (a) web-page rank, (b) position inside HTML, (c) synonyms, and (d) document frequency. We report our results of experiment using an 80-person dataset.