用神经网络评估网页语义质量,提升爬虫抓取效率。
Neural Prioritisation for Web Crawling
- 将语义质量评分嵌入爬虫队列,优先抓取内容丰富的页面。
- 在ClueWeb22-B上,早期抓取阶段的搜索效果提升显著。
- 适合关注自然语言搜索的爬虫优化研究者。
面对网络规模庞大,传统爬虫依赖链接图遍历、流行度和文本内容进行优先级排序,适用于关键词搜索。然而,检索方法和用户行为正从关键词匹配转向自然语言语义匹配。近期在排序中应用语义匹配与质量信号的成功启发我们:通过优先抓取语义质量高的网页,可改进爬虫效率。为此,本文提出一种基于语义质量驱动的爬虫优先级策略,将最新的神经语义质量估计算法直接融入爬虫过程,以优先处理语义丰富、符合现代搜索需求的内容。在ClueWeb22-B英文子集和Researchy Questions查询集上的实验表明,相比现有方法,该神经爬虫策略显著提升了早期抓取阶段的收获率、maxNDCG及搜索有效性。同时,在MS MARCO Web Search查询集上的关键词查询性能保持相当。尽管未提供完整解决方案,本工作为网络爬虫指明了新方向,推动语义分析在对齐自然语言搜索趋势中的应用研究。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Given the vast scale of the Web, crawling prioritisation techniques based on link graph traversal, popularity, link analysis, and textual content are frequently applied to surface documents that are most likely to be valuable. While existing techniques are effective for keyword-based search, both retrieval methods and user search behaviours are shifting from keyword-based matching to natural language semantic matching. The remarkable success of applying semantic matching and quality signals during ranking leads us to hypothesize that crawling could be improved by prioritizing Web pages with high semantic quality. To investigate this, we propose a semantic quality-driven prioritisation technique to enhance the effectiveness of crawling and align the crawler behaviour with recent shift towards natural language search. We embed semantic understanding directly into the crawling process -- leveraging recent neural semantic quality estimators to prioritise the crawling frontier -- with the goal of surfacing content that is semantically rich and valuable for modern search needs. Our experiments on the English subset of ClueWeb22-B and the Researchy Questions query set show that, compared to existing crawling techniques, neural crawling policies significantly improve harvest rate, maxNDCG, and search effectiveness during the early stages of crawling. Meanwhile, crawlers based on our proposed neural policies maintain comparable search performance on keyword queries from the MS MARCO Web Search query set. While this work does not propose a definitive and complete solution, it presents a forward-looking perspective on Web crawling and opens the door to a new line of research on leveraging semantic analysis to effectively align crawlers with the ongoing shift toward natural language search.
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