Hyperlinks analysis in multilingual Web applications

Author

Ricca, Filippo

Author_Institution

ITC, Trento, Italy

fYear

2005

fDate

26 Sept. 2005

Firstpage

57

Lastpage

62

Abstract

Multilingual Web applications - applications where the information is provided in more than one language - present new difficulties for Web developers and maintainers. One of them is managing hyperlinks in correct way. Inconsistencies can raise when the same hyperlink structure is not replicated in every language (internal inconsistency) or when hyperlinks that connect pages in different languages are not symmetric (external inconsistency). In this paper, an algorithm is proposed to check the internal and external consistency of the hyperlinks that connect Web pages. A comparative evaluation of it has been conducted on a sample of 10 small multilingual Web sites, chosen among Web sites of Italy-based firms and educational institutions.

Keywords

Internet; Web sites; authoring systems; hypermedia; Italy-based firm Web site; consistency checking; educational institution Web site; external inconsistency; hyperlink analysis; internal inconsistency; multilingual Web application; Algorithm design and analysis; Databases; Educational institutions; HTML; Natural languages; Reverse engineering; Vehicles; Web pages;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Web Site Evolution, 2005. (WSE 2005). Seventh IEEE International Symposium on

ISSN

1550-4441

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2470-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WSE.2005.7

Filename

1517981