對於商業性網站，網頁上每個區塊的資訊可能有不同的重要程度。因此，為了使不重要的區塊可以被移除對於網路探勘或者在小螢幕裝置上瀏覽網路時，評估網頁區塊重要性是一個重要的工作。當應用目前的評估網頁區塊方法於多樣版網站時，我們發現二個問題，分別是多樣版問題和較少內容之重要性區塊的問題。這二個問題均會降低評估網頁區塊的準確性。
在此篇論文中，我們提出了一種新的評估網頁區塊技術用以解決上述的二個問題。我們藉由樣版分群方法來群聚相似樣版的網頁區塊，接著個別對網頁區塊群作分析使得多樣版網站轉換成單一樣版的網站。藉由實驗的分析結果，證明我們所提出的評估技術能應用於多樣版網站中且確實提升品質。

The information of each block from the web pages might not be equally importance, especially in the commercial web site. Therefore, block importance evaluation is a important task such that the noisy blocks can be cleared for web mining and web browsing on small screen devices. For current block importance evaluating approaches, we discover two problems occurring while web site use several predefined templates. These two problems are the multi-template problem and the problem of informative blocks with fewer contents. These two problems both reduce the precision of block importance evaluation.
In the thesis, we proposed a novel block importance evaluating method, named as Block Analyzer, to solve the multi-template problem and the problem of informative blocks with fewer contents. This method is based on template clustering to cluster blocks with similar template and then analyzing each cluster individually to transform a multi-template web site to a single template web site. Experiments on several news web sites with multiple predefined templates show that Block Analyzer can work well in the multi-template web site and lead to performance improvement.

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