The World Wide Web (Web) is a popular and interactive medium to disseminate information today.
The Web is huge, diverse, and dynamic and thus raises the scalability, multi-media data, and temporal issues respectively.
This document discusses web spam and techniques used to mislead search engines. It defines web spam as actions intended to boost a page's ranking without improving its true value. Two main categories of techniques are described: boosting techniques like term spamming and link spamming; and hiding techniques like content hiding and cloaking to conceal spamming from users and search engines. Specific spamming methods like term repetition, link exchanges, and cloaking behavior are outlined. The goal of web spammers and the algorithms search engines use for ranking are also summarized.
This document discusses web mining and outlines its goals, types, and techniques. Web mining involves examining data from the world wide web and includes web content mining, web structure mining, and web usage mining. Content mining analyzes web page contents, structure mining analyzes hyperlink structures, and usage mining analyzes web server logs and user browsing patterns. Common techniques discussed include page ranking algorithms, focused crawlers, usage pattern discovery, and preprocessing of web server logs.
This document provides an overview of information retrieval models. It begins with definitions of information retrieval and how it differs from data retrieval. It then discusses the retrieval process and logical representations of documents. A taxonomy of IR models is presented including classic, structured, and browsing models. Boolean, vector, and probabilistic models are explained as examples of classic models. The document concludes with descriptions of ad-hoc retrieval and filtering tasks and formal characteristics of IR models.
This document presents an overview of web mining techniques. It discusses how web mining uses data mining algorithms to extract useful information from the web. The document classifies web mining into three categories: web structure mining, web content mining, and web usage mining. It provides examples and explanations of techniques for each category such as document classification, clustering, association rule mining, and sequential pattern mining. The document also discusses opportunities and challenges of web mining as well as sources of web usage data like server logs.
Web mining uses data mining techniques to extract information from web documents and services. It involves web content mining of page content and search results, web structure mining of hyperlink structures, and web usage mining of server logs to find user access patterns. Data mining techniques like classification, clustering, and association rule mining can be applied to web data to discover useful patterns and information.
This document outlines a presentation on web mining. It begins with an introduction comparing data mining and web mining, noting that web mining extracts information from the world wide web. It then discusses the reasons for and types of web mining, including web content, structure, and usage mining. The document also covers the architecture and applications of web mining, challenges, and provides recommendations.
Web content mining mines data from web pages including text, images, audio, video, metadata and hyperlinks. It examines the content of web pages and search results to extract useful information. Web content mining helps understand customer behavior, evaluate website performance, and boost business through research. It can classify data into structured, unstructured, semi-structured and multimedia types and applies techniques such as information extraction, topic tracking, summarization, categorization and clustering to analyze the data.
This document provides a full syllabus with questions and answers related to the course "Information Retrieval" including definitions of key concepts, the historical development of the field, comparisons between information retrieval and web search, applications of IR, components of an IR system, and issues in IR systems. It also lists examples of open source search frameworks and performance measures for search engines.
This document discusses web spam and techniques used to mislead search engines. It defines web spam as actions intended to boost a page's ranking without improving its true value. Two main categories of techniques are described: boosting techniques like term spamming and link spamming; and hiding techniques like content hiding and cloaking to conceal spamming from users and search engines. Specific spamming methods like term repetition, link exchanges, and cloaking behavior are outlined. The goal of web spammers and the algorithms search engines use for ranking are also summarized.
This document discusses web mining and outlines its goals, types, and techniques. Web mining involves examining data from the world wide web and includes web content mining, web structure mining, and web usage mining. Content mining analyzes web page contents, structure mining analyzes hyperlink structures, and usage mining analyzes web server logs and user browsing patterns. Common techniques discussed include page ranking algorithms, focused crawlers, usage pattern discovery, and preprocessing of web server logs.
This document provides an overview of information retrieval models. It begins with definitions of information retrieval and how it differs from data retrieval. It then discusses the retrieval process and logical representations of documents. A taxonomy of IR models is presented including classic, structured, and browsing models. Boolean, vector, and probabilistic models are explained as examples of classic models. The document concludes with descriptions of ad-hoc retrieval and filtering tasks and formal characteristics of IR models.
This document presents an overview of web mining techniques. It discusses how web mining uses data mining algorithms to extract useful information from the web. The document classifies web mining into three categories: web structure mining, web content mining, and web usage mining. It provides examples and explanations of techniques for each category such as document classification, clustering, association rule mining, and sequential pattern mining. The document also discusses opportunities and challenges of web mining as well as sources of web usage data like server logs.
Web mining uses data mining techniques to extract information from web documents and services. It involves web content mining of page content and search results, web structure mining of hyperlink structures, and web usage mining of server logs to find user access patterns. Data mining techniques like classification, clustering, and association rule mining can be applied to web data to discover useful patterns and information.
This document outlines a presentation on web mining. It begins with an introduction comparing data mining and web mining, noting that web mining extracts information from the world wide web. It then discusses the reasons for and types of web mining, including web content, structure, and usage mining. The document also covers the architecture and applications of web mining, challenges, and provides recommendations.
Web content mining mines data from web pages including text, images, audio, video, metadata and hyperlinks. It examines the content of web pages and search results to extract useful information. Web content mining helps understand customer behavior, evaluate website performance, and boost business through research. It can classify data into structured, unstructured, semi-structured and multimedia types and applies techniques such as information extraction, topic tracking, summarization, categorization and clustering to analyze the data.
This document provides a full syllabus with questions and answers related to the course "Information Retrieval" including definitions of key concepts, the historical development of the field, comparisons between information retrieval and web search, applications of IR, components of an IR system, and issues in IR systems. It also lists examples of open source search frameworks and performance measures for search engines.
The document presents an overview of web mining, which is defined as the application of data mining techniques to extract knowledge from web data, including web content, structure, and usage data. It discusses approaches to web content mining such as using databases or intelligent agents. Specific problems addressed in web content mining are also outlined, such as data extraction, schema matching, and opinion extraction. The document then describes approaches to web content mining including using multilevel databases, web query systems, and information filtering/categorization agents.
Web mining is the application of data mining techniques to extract knowledge from web data, including web content, structure, and usage data. Web content mining analyzes text, images, and other unstructured data on web pages using natural language processing and information retrieval. Web structure mining examines the hyperlinks between pages to discover relationships. Web usage mining applies data mining methods to server logs and other web data to discover patterns of user behavior on websites. Text mining aims to extract useful information from unstructured text documents using techniques like summarization, information extraction, categorization, and sentiment analysis.
The document discusses web mining, which involves applying data mining techniques to discover useful information and patterns from web data. It covers the types of web data, various applications of web mining, challenges, and different techniques used. These include classification, clustering, association rule mining. It also discusses how web mining can be used to solve search engine problems and how cloud computing provides a new approach for web mining through software as a service.
This document compares web search and information retrieval (IR) across 10 differentiators:
1. Languages - Web search indexes documents in many languages using full text, while IR databases usually cover one language.
2. File types - Web search indexes several file types including some without text, while IR indexes consistent formats like PDF.
3. Document length - Web documents vary widely in length from short to long, while IR documents vary less.
4. Document structure - Web documents are semi-structured HTML, while IR allows searching structured document fields.
The document discusses web crawlers, which are programs that download web pages to help search engines index websites. It explains that crawlers use strategies like breadth-first search and depth-first search to systematically crawl the web. The architecture of crawlers includes components like the URL frontier, DNS lookup, and parsing pages to extract links. Crawling policies determine which pages to download and when to revisit pages. Distributed crawling improves efficiency by using multiple coordinated crawlers.
Web content mining mines content from websites like text, images, audio, video and metadata to extract useful information. It examines both the content of websites as well as search results. Web content mining helps understand customer behavior, evaluate website performance, and boost business through research. It can classify content into categories like web page content mining and search result mining.
The document discusses key concepts related to information retrieval including data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. It defines information retrieval as the tracing and recovery of specific information from stored data through searching. The main aspects of the information retrieval process are described as querying a collection to retrieve relevant objects that may partially match the query. Precision and recall are discussed as important measures for information retrieval systems.
The document discusses web content mining. It covers topics such as web content data structure including unstructured, semi-structured, and structured data. It also discusses techniques used for web content mining such as classification, clustering, and association. Finally, it provides examples of applications such as structured data extraction, sentiment analysis of reviews, and targeted advertising.
A web crawler is a program that browses the World Wide Web methodically by following links from page to page and downloading each page to be indexed later by a search engine. It initializes seed URLs, adds them to a frontier, selects URLs from the frontier to fetch and parse for new links, adding those links to the frontier until none remain. Web crawlers are used by search engines to regularly update their databases and keep their indexes current.
Web crawling involves automated programs called crawlers or spiders that browse the web methodically to index web pages for search engines. Crawlers start from seed URLs and extract links from visited pages to discover new pages, repeating the process until a desired size or time limit is reached. Crawlers are used by search engines to build indexes of web content and ensure freshness through revisiting URLs. Challenges include the web's large size, fast changes, and dynamic content generation. APIs allow programmatic access to web services and information through REST, HTTP POST, and SOAP.
Web mining is the application of data mining techniques to discover patterns from the World Wide Web. As the name proposes, this is information gathered by mining the web
This document provides an overview of web mining and summarizes key concepts. It begins with definitions of data mining and web mining. The document then discusses three categories of web mining: web content mining, web usage mining, and web structure mining. Various matrix expressions used to represent web data are also introduced, including document-keyword co-occurrence matrices, adjacent matrices, and usage matrices. Finally, two common similarity functions - Pearson correlation coefficient and cosine similarity - are outlined.
This document provides an introduction to NoSQL databases. It discusses the history and limitations of relational databases that led to the development of NoSQL databases. The key motivations for NoSQL databases are that they can handle big data, provide better scalability and flexibility than relational databases. The document describes some core NoSQL concepts like the CAP theorem and different types of NoSQL databases like key-value, columnar, document and graph databases. It also outlines some remaining research challenges in the area of NoSQL databases.
This document discusses techniques for mining data streams. It begins by defining different types of streaming data like time-series data and sequence data. It then discusses the characteristics of data streams like their huge volume, fast changing nature, and requirement for real-time processing. The key challenges in stream query processing are the unbounded memory requirements and need for approximate query answering. The document outlines several synopsis data structures and techniques used for mining data streams, including random sampling, histograms, sketches, and randomized algorithms. It also discusses architectures for stream query processing and classification of dynamic data streams.
Mining single dimensional boolean association rules from transactionalramya marichamy
The document discusses mining frequent itemsets and generating association rules from transactional databases. It introduces the Apriori algorithm, which uses a candidate generation-and-test approach to iteratively find frequent itemsets. Several improvements to Apriori's efficiency are also presented, such as hashing techniques, transaction reduction, and approaches that avoid candidate generation like FP-trees. The document concludes by discussing how Apriori can be applied to answer iceberg queries, a common operation in market basket analysis.
Web mining is the application of data mining techniques to extract knowledge from web data. There are three types of web mining: web usage mining analyzes server logs to learn about user behavior; web structure mining analyzes the hyperlink structure between websites; and web content mining analyzes the contents of web pages. Web mining has various applications in areas like e-commerce, advertising, search engines, and CRM to improve business decisions by understanding customer behavior and targeting customers. It allows businesses to increase sales, optimize websites, and gain marketing intelligence.
Probabilistic information retrieval models & systemsSelman Bozkır
The document discusses probabilistic information retrieval and Bayesian approaches. It introduces concepts like conditional probability, Bayes' theorem, and the probability ranking principle. It explains how probabilistic models estimate the probability of relevance between a document and query by representing them as term sets and making probabilistic assumptions. The goal is to rank documents by the probability of relevance to present the most likely relevant documents first.
This document discusses spatial data mining and its applications. Spatial data mining involves extracting knowledge and relationships from large spatial databases. It can be used for applications like GIS, remote sensing, medical imaging, and more. Some challenges include the complexity of spatial data types and large data volumes. The document also covers topics like spatial data warehouses, dimensions and measures in spatial analysis, spatial association rule mining, and applications in fields such as earth science, crime mapping, and commerce.
Use of data science in recommendation systemAkashPatil334
This document discusses the use of data science in recommendation systems. It defines recommendation systems as systems that predict a user's preferences for items and recommend top items. It also defines data science as using scientific methods to extract knowledge from structured and unstructured data. The document then describes different types of recommendation systems, including collaborative filtering, content-based filtering, and hybrid systems. It provides examples of how Netflix, Amazon, LinkedIn, and Pandora use recommendation systems.
Web mining involves applying data mining techniques to discover patterns from the web. There are three types of web mining: web content mining which analyzes the contents of web pages; web structure mining which examines the hyperlink structure of the web; and web usage mining which refers to mining patterns from web server logs. Web usage mining applies data mining methods to web server logs to discover user browsing patterns and evaluate website usage.
Web mining applies data mining techniques to web documents and services to extract knowledge. It aims to make the web more useful and profitable by increasing efficiency of interaction. Web mining includes web usage mining, web structure mining, and web content mining to discover useful information from web contents, links, and usage data. Analysis of web server logs can reveal patterns like popular pages and how users navigate a site. This information can then be used to improve site performance and design, detect intrusions, predict user behavior, and enhance personalization.
The document presents an overview of web mining, which is defined as the application of data mining techniques to extract knowledge from web data, including web content, structure, and usage data. It discusses approaches to web content mining such as using databases or intelligent agents. Specific problems addressed in web content mining are also outlined, such as data extraction, schema matching, and opinion extraction. The document then describes approaches to web content mining including using multilevel databases, web query systems, and information filtering/categorization agents.
Web mining is the application of data mining techniques to extract knowledge from web data, including web content, structure, and usage data. Web content mining analyzes text, images, and other unstructured data on web pages using natural language processing and information retrieval. Web structure mining examines the hyperlinks between pages to discover relationships. Web usage mining applies data mining methods to server logs and other web data to discover patterns of user behavior on websites. Text mining aims to extract useful information from unstructured text documents using techniques like summarization, information extraction, categorization, and sentiment analysis.
The document discusses web mining, which involves applying data mining techniques to discover useful information and patterns from web data. It covers the types of web data, various applications of web mining, challenges, and different techniques used. These include classification, clustering, association rule mining. It also discusses how web mining can be used to solve search engine problems and how cloud computing provides a new approach for web mining through software as a service.
This document compares web search and information retrieval (IR) across 10 differentiators:
1. Languages - Web search indexes documents in many languages using full text, while IR databases usually cover one language.
2. File types - Web search indexes several file types including some without text, while IR indexes consistent formats like PDF.
3. Document length - Web documents vary widely in length from short to long, while IR documents vary less.
4. Document structure - Web documents are semi-structured HTML, while IR allows searching structured document fields.
The document discusses web crawlers, which are programs that download web pages to help search engines index websites. It explains that crawlers use strategies like breadth-first search and depth-first search to systematically crawl the web. The architecture of crawlers includes components like the URL frontier, DNS lookup, and parsing pages to extract links. Crawling policies determine which pages to download and when to revisit pages. Distributed crawling improves efficiency by using multiple coordinated crawlers.
Web content mining mines content from websites like text, images, audio, video and metadata to extract useful information. It examines both the content of websites as well as search results. Web content mining helps understand customer behavior, evaluate website performance, and boost business through research. It can classify content into categories like web page content mining and search result mining.
The document discusses key concepts related to information retrieval including data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. It defines information retrieval as the tracing and recovery of specific information from stored data through searching. The main aspects of the information retrieval process are described as querying a collection to retrieve relevant objects that may partially match the query. Precision and recall are discussed as important measures for information retrieval systems.
The document discusses web content mining. It covers topics such as web content data structure including unstructured, semi-structured, and structured data. It also discusses techniques used for web content mining such as classification, clustering, and association. Finally, it provides examples of applications such as structured data extraction, sentiment analysis of reviews, and targeted advertising.
A web crawler is a program that browses the World Wide Web methodically by following links from page to page and downloading each page to be indexed later by a search engine. It initializes seed URLs, adds them to a frontier, selects URLs from the frontier to fetch and parse for new links, adding those links to the frontier until none remain. Web crawlers are used by search engines to regularly update their databases and keep their indexes current.
Web crawling involves automated programs called crawlers or spiders that browse the web methodically to index web pages for search engines. Crawlers start from seed URLs and extract links from visited pages to discover new pages, repeating the process until a desired size or time limit is reached. Crawlers are used by search engines to build indexes of web content and ensure freshness through revisiting URLs. Challenges include the web's large size, fast changes, and dynamic content generation. APIs allow programmatic access to web services and information through REST, HTTP POST, and SOAP.
Web mining is the application of data mining techniques to discover patterns from the World Wide Web. As the name proposes, this is information gathered by mining the web
This document provides an overview of web mining and summarizes key concepts. It begins with definitions of data mining and web mining. The document then discusses three categories of web mining: web content mining, web usage mining, and web structure mining. Various matrix expressions used to represent web data are also introduced, including document-keyword co-occurrence matrices, adjacent matrices, and usage matrices. Finally, two common similarity functions - Pearson correlation coefficient and cosine similarity - are outlined.
This document provides an introduction to NoSQL databases. It discusses the history and limitations of relational databases that led to the development of NoSQL databases. The key motivations for NoSQL databases are that they can handle big data, provide better scalability and flexibility than relational databases. The document describes some core NoSQL concepts like the CAP theorem and different types of NoSQL databases like key-value, columnar, document and graph databases. It also outlines some remaining research challenges in the area of NoSQL databases.
This document discusses techniques for mining data streams. It begins by defining different types of streaming data like time-series data and sequence data. It then discusses the characteristics of data streams like their huge volume, fast changing nature, and requirement for real-time processing. The key challenges in stream query processing are the unbounded memory requirements and need for approximate query answering. The document outlines several synopsis data structures and techniques used for mining data streams, including random sampling, histograms, sketches, and randomized algorithms. It also discusses architectures for stream query processing and classification of dynamic data streams.
Mining single dimensional boolean association rules from transactionalramya marichamy
The document discusses mining frequent itemsets and generating association rules from transactional databases. It introduces the Apriori algorithm, which uses a candidate generation-and-test approach to iteratively find frequent itemsets. Several improvements to Apriori's efficiency are also presented, such as hashing techniques, transaction reduction, and approaches that avoid candidate generation like FP-trees. The document concludes by discussing how Apriori can be applied to answer iceberg queries, a common operation in market basket analysis.
Web mining is the application of data mining techniques to extract knowledge from web data. There are three types of web mining: web usage mining analyzes server logs to learn about user behavior; web structure mining analyzes the hyperlink structure between websites; and web content mining analyzes the contents of web pages. Web mining has various applications in areas like e-commerce, advertising, search engines, and CRM to improve business decisions by understanding customer behavior and targeting customers. It allows businesses to increase sales, optimize websites, and gain marketing intelligence.
Probabilistic information retrieval models & systemsSelman Bozkır
The document discusses probabilistic information retrieval and Bayesian approaches. It introduces concepts like conditional probability, Bayes' theorem, and the probability ranking principle. It explains how probabilistic models estimate the probability of relevance between a document and query by representing them as term sets and making probabilistic assumptions. The goal is to rank documents by the probability of relevance to present the most likely relevant documents first.
This document discusses spatial data mining and its applications. Spatial data mining involves extracting knowledge and relationships from large spatial databases. It can be used for applications like GIS, remote sensing, medical imaging, and more. Some challenges include the complexity of spatial data types and large data volumes. The document also covers topics like spatial data warehouses, dimensions and measures in spatial analysis, spatial association rule mining, and applications in fields such as earth science, crime mapping, and commerce.
Use of data science in recommendation systemAkashPatil334
This document discusses the use of data science in recommendation systems. It defines recommendation systems as systems that predict a user's preferences for items and recommend top items. It also defines data science as using scientific methods to extract knowledge from structured and unstructured data. The document then describes different types of recommendation systems, including collaborative filtering, content-based filtering, and hybrid systems. It provides examples of how Netflix, Amazon, LinkedIn, and Pandora use recommendation systems.
Web mining involves applying data mining techniques to discover patterns from the web. There are three types of web mining: web content mining which analyzes the contents of web pages; web structure mining which examines the hyperlink structure of the web; and web usage mining which refers to mining patterns from web server logs. Web usage mining applies data mining methods to web server logs to discover user browsing patterns and evaluate website usage.
Web mining applies data mining techniques to web documents and services to extract knowledge. It aims to make the web more useful and profitable by increasing efficiency of interaction. Web mining includes web usage mining, web structure mining, and web content mining to discover useful information from web contents, links, and usage data. Analysis of web server logs can reveal patterns like popular pages and how users navigate a site. This information can then be used to improve site performance and design, detect intrusions, predict user behavior, and enhance personalization.
This document provides an overview of web mining, which involves applying data mining techniques to discover patterns from data on the world wide web. It begins by defining web mining and presenting a taxonomy that distinguishes between web content mining and web usage mining. Web content mining involves discovering information from web sources, while web usage mining involves analyzing user browsing patterns. The document then surveys research on pattern discovery techniques applied to web transactions, analyzing discovered patterns, and architectures for web usage mining systems. It concludes by outlining open research directions in areas like data preprocessing, the mining process, and analyzing mined knowledge.
This document discusses web usage mining. It begins by defining web mining and its three categories: web content mining, web structure mining, and web usage mining. The main focus is on web usage mining, which involves discovering user navigation patterns and predicting user behavior. The key processes of web usage mining are preprocessing raw data, pattern discovery using algorithms, and pattern analysis. Pattern discovery techniques discussed include statistical analysis, clustering, classification, association rules, and sequential patterns. Potential applications are personalized recommendations, system improvements, and business intelligence. The document concludes by discussing future research directions such as usage mining on the semantic web and analyzing discovered patterns.
This document discusses web structure mining and related concepts. It defines web mining as applying data mining techniques to discover patterns from the web using web content, structure, and usage data. Web structure mining analyzes the hyperlinks between pages to discover useful information. Key aspects covered include the bow-tie model of the web graph, measures of in-degree and out-degree, Google's PageRank algorithm, the HITS algorithm for identifying hub and authority pages, and using link structure for applications like ranking pages and finding related information.
1) The document discusses techniques for mining data from the World Wide Web, including identifying authoritative web pages through link analysis algorithms like HITS and PageRank, mining multimedia data and web images through associated text and links, automatically classifying web documents, and analyzing web server logs to discover user access patterns through web usage mining.
2) It describes how web pages can be partitioned into semantic blocks and how block-level link analysis can be used to identify related images and organize them, as well as reduce noise in automatic web document classification.
3) Methods of web usage mining discussed include cleaning, condensing, and transforming log data to generate multidimensional views of user access patterns that can help discover customers, markets
This document provides an overview of a course on data warehousing, data mining, and decision support. It discusses what data warehousing is, how it differs from operational transaction processing systems, and the processes involved like data extraction, transformation, loading and refreshing the warehouse. It also covers warehouse architecture, design considerations, and multidimensional data modeling. Examples from Walmart's data warehouse implementation are provided to illustrate real-world warehouse concepts and capabilities.
Data Visualization Resource Guide (September 2014)Amanda Makulec
A summary guide to data visualization design, including key design principles, great resources, and tools (listed by category with short explanations) that you can use to help design elegant, effective data visualizations that help share your message & promote the use of your information.
Note that the tools & resources highlighted are suggested, and inclusion should not be considered as an endorsement from JSI.
Data visualizations make huge amounts of data more accessible and understandable. Data visualization, or "data viz," is becoming largely important as the amount of data generated is increasing and big data tools are helping to create meaning behind all of that data.
This SlideShare presentation takes you through more details around data visualization and includes examples of some great data visualization pieces.
The document discusses various techniques for visualizing data, from basic charts to approaches for big data. It covers common basic chart types like line graphs, bar charts, scatter plots, and pie charts. For big data, it addresses challenges like large data volumes, different data varieties, visualization velocity, and filtering. The document recommends understanding your data and goals to select the best visualizations, and introduces SAS Visual Analytics as a tool that performs automatic charting to help users visualize big data.
This document discusses data visualization. It begins by defining data visualization as conveying information through visual representations and reinforcing human cognition to gain knowledge about data. The document then outlines three main functions of visualization: to record information, analyze information, and communicate information to others. Finally, it discusses various frameworks, tools, and examples of inspiring data visualizations.
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The document discusses 5 fundamental ways that data visualizations are used:
1. To analyze data through visual representations like charts, graphs, maps and plots in order to see trends, anomalies, correlations and patterns.
2. To discover information buried in large datasets through interactive visualizations that allow exploration of data to find unknown information.
3. To support a story by providing context, engaging audiences and emphasizing key points, as effective speakers use visuals to make stories memorable.
4. To tell a story on its own, with some data visualizations serving as the story without text.
5. To teach, as visual learning is more efficient and retains information better than text alone.
Data mining and data warehousing have evolved since the 1960s due to increases in data collection and storage. Data mining automates the extraction of patterns and knowledge from large databases. It uses predictive and descriptive models like classification, clustering, and association rule mining. The data mining process involves problem definition, data preparation, model building, evaluation, and deployment. Data warehouses integrate data from multiple sources for analysis and decision making. They are large, subject-oriented databases designed for querying and analysis rather than transactions. Data warehousing addresses the need to consolidate organizational data spread across various locations and systems.
Data warehousing combines data from multiple sources into a single database to provide businesses with analytics results from data mining, OLAP, scorecarding and reporting. It extracts, transforms and loads data from operational data stores and data marts into a data warehouse and staging area to integrate and store large amounts of corporate data. Data mining analyzes large databases to extract previously unknown and potentially useful patterns and relationships to improve business processes.
This document discusses data warehousing and OLAP (online analytical processing) technology. It defines a data warehouse as a subject-oriented, integrated, time-variant, and nonvolatile collection of data to support management decision making. It describes how data warehouses use a multi-dimensional data model with facts and dimensions to organize historical data from multiple sources for analysis. Common data warehouse architectures like star schemas and snowflake schemas are also summarized.
This document discusses research issues in web mining. It provides an overview of the three categories of web mining: web content mining, web structure mining, and web usage mining.
Web content mining extracts useful information from web documents and pages. It has challenges around data extraction, integration, and opinion mining. Web structure mining analyzes the link structure between pages on a website. Issues include reducing irrelevant search results and improving indexing.
Web usage mining analyzes user behavior by mining web server logs. It involves preprocessing log data, discovering patterns using techniques like clustering and rules, and analyzing patterns. Challenges include session identification and handling dynamic pages. Overall, the document outlines the key techniques and ongoing research problems in the different areas
Web is a collection of inter-related files on one or more web servers while web mining means extracting
valuable information from web databases. Web mining is one of the data mining domains where data
mining techniques are used for extracting information from the web servers. The web data includes web
pages, web links, objects on the web and web logs. Web mining is used to understand the customer
behaviour, evaluate a particular website based on the information which is stored in web log files. Web
mining is evaluated by using data mining techniques, namely classification, clustering, and association
rules. It has some beneficial areas or applications such as Electronic commerce, E-learning, Egovernment, E-policies, E-democracy, Electronic business, security, crime investigation and digital library.
Retrieving the required web page from the web efficiently and effectively becomes a challenging task
because web is made up of unstructured data, which delivers the large amount of information and increase
the complexity of dealing information from different web service providers. The collection of information
becomes very hard to find, extract, filter or evaluate the relevant information for the users. In this paper,
we have studied the basic concepts of web mining, classification, processes and issues. In addition to this,
this paper also analyzed the web mining research challenges.
Web is a collection of inter-related files on one or more web servers while web mining means extracting
valuable information from web databases. Web mining is one of the data mining domains where data
mining techniques are used for extracting information from the web servers. The web data includes web
pages, web links, objects on the web and web logs. Web mining is used to understand the customer
behaviour, evaluate a particular website based on the information which is stored in web log files. Web
mining is evaluated by using data mining techniques, namely classification, clustering, and association
rules. It has some beneficial areas or applications such as Electronic commerce, E-learning, Egovernment, E-policies, E-democracy, Electronic business, security, crime investigation and digital library.
Retrieving the required web page from the web efficiently and effectively becomes a challenging task
because web is made up of unstructured data, which delivers the large amount of information and increase
the complexity of dealing information from different web service providers. The collection of information
becomes very hard to find, extract, filter or evaluate the relevant information for the users. In this paper,
we have studied the basic concepts of web mining, classification, processes and issues. In addition to this,
this paper also analyzed the web mining research challenges.
Web is a collection of inter-related files on one or more web servers while web mining means extracting valuable information from web databases. Web mining is one of the data mining domains where data mining techniques are used for extracting information from the web servers. The web data includes web
pages, web links, objects on the web and web logs. Web mining is used to understand the customer behaviour, evaluate a particular website based on the information which is stored in web log files. Web mining is evaluated by using data mining techniques, namely classification, clustering, and association
rules. It has some beneficial areas or applications such as Electronic commerce, E-learning, Egovernment, E-policies, E-democracy, Electronic business, security, crime investigation and digital library. Retrieving the required web page from the web efficiently and effectively becomes a challenging task
because web is made up of unstructured data, which delivers the large amount of information and increase the complexity of dealing information from different web service providers. The collection of information becomes very hard to find, extract, filter or evaluate the relevant information for the users. In this paper,
we have studied the basic concepts of web mining, classification, processes and issues. In addition to this,
this paper also analyzed the web mining research challenges.
Web is a collection of inter-related files on one or more web servers while web mining means extracting valuable information from web databases. Web mining is one of the data mining domains where data mining techniques are used for extracting information from the web servers. The web data includes web
pages, web links, objects on the web and web logs. Web mining is used to understand the customer behaviour, evaluate a particular website based on the information which is stored in web log files. Web mining is evaluated by using data mining techniques, namely classification, clustering, and association
rules. It has some beneficial areas or applications such as Electronic commerce, E-learning, Egovernment, E-policies, E-democracy, Electronic business, security, crime investigation and digital library. Retrieving the required web page from the web efficiently and effectively becomes a challenging task
because web is made up of unstructured data, which delivers the large amount of information and increase the complexity of dealing information from different web service providers. The collection of information becomes very hard to find, extract, filter or evaluate the relevant information for the users. In this paper,
we have studied the basic concepts of web mining, classification, processes and issues. In addition to this,
this paper also analyzed the web mining research challenges.
Web is a collection of inter-related files on one or more web servers while web mining means extracting
valuable information from web databases. Web mining is one of the data mining domains where data
mining techniques are used for extracting information from the web servers. The web data includes web
pages, web links, objects on the web and web logs. Web mining is used to understand the customer
behaviour, evaluate a particular website based on the information which is stored in web log files. Web
mining is evaluated by using data mining techniques, namely classification, clustering, and association
rules. It has some beneficial areas or applications such as Electronic commerce, E-learning, Egovernment, E-policies, E-democracy, Electronic business, security, crime investigation and digital library.
Retrieving the required web page from the web efficiently and effectively becomes a challenging task
because web is made up of unstructured data, which delivers the large amount of information and increase
the complexity of dealing information from different web service providers. The collection of information
becomes very hard to find, extract, filter or evaluate the relevant information for the users. In this paper,
we have studied the basic concepts of web mining, classification, processes and issues. In addition to this,
this paper also analyzed the web mining research challenges.
Web is a collection of inter-related files on one or more web servers while web mining means extracting valuable information from web databases. Web mining is one of the data mining domains where data mining techniques are used for extracting information from the web servers. The web data includes web
pages, web links, objects on the web and web logs. Web mining is used to understand the customer behaviour, evaluate a particular website based on the information which is stored in web log files. Web mining is evaluated by using data mining techniques, namely classification, clustering, and association
rules. It has some beneficial areas or applications such as Electronic commerce, E-learning, Egovernment, E-policies, E-democracy, Electronic business, security, crime investigation and digital library. Retrieving the required web page from the web efficiently and effectively becomes a challenging task
because web is made up of unstructured data, which delivers the large amount of information and increase the complexity of dealing information from different web service providers. The collection of information becomes very hard to find, extract, filter or evaluate the relevant information for the users. In this paper,
we have studied the basic concepts of web mining, classification, processes and issues. In addition to this,
this paper also analyzed the web mining research challenges.
Web Mining Research Issues and Future Directions – A SurveyIOSR Journals
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Structured Data extraction from deep Web pages is a challenging task due to the underlying complex structures of such pages. Also website developer generally follows different web page design technique. Data extraction from webpage is highly useful to build our own database from number applications. A large number of techniques have been proposed to address this problem, but all of them have inherent limitations because they present different limitations and constraints for extracting data from such webpages. This paper presents two different approaches to get structured data extraction. The first approach is non-generic solution which is based on template detection using intersection of Document Object Model Tree of various webpages from the same website. This approach is giving better result in terms of efficiency and accurately locating the main data at the particular webpage. The second approach is based on partial tree alignment mechanism based on using important visual features such as length, size, and position of web table available on the webpages. This approach is a generic solution as it does not depend on one particular website and its webpage template. It is perfectly locating the multiple data regions, data records and data items within a given web page. We have compared our work's result with existing mechanism and found our result much better for number webpage
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Data mining refers to the process of analysing the data from different perspectives and summarizing it into useful information.
Data mining software is one of the number of tools used for analysing data. It allows users to analyse from many different dimensions and angles, categorize it, and summarize the relationship identified.
Data mining is about technique for finding and describing Structural Patterns in data.
Data mining is the process of finding correlation or patterns among fields in large relational databases.
The process of extracting valid, previously unknown, comprehensible , and actionable information from large databases and using it to make crucial business decisions.
This document discusses extracting main content from deep web pages that contain multiple data regions. It proposes a hybrid approach with two steps: 1) Using visual features to identify the different data regions in the DOM tree. 2) Independently mining positive data records and data items from each data region using vision-based page segmentation. Related work on single-region deep web page extraction is also reviewed. The technique aims to automatically extract information from complex pages containing multiple, independent data listings.
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Web structure mining analyzes the hyperlink structure of websites to extract useful information. It involves discovering patterns in how webpages link to each other. This can help determine the importance or relevance of individual pages. The document discusses web structure mining techniques for analyzing link patterns and relationships between webpages in order to classify pages, identify clusters of related pages, and determine the strength or type of connections between pages. It focuses on using these techniques for online booking domains.
This document discusses parsing HTML documents to extract data from websites. It proposes an automated system to parse HTML pages from the SEC website and extract specific data fields, like company financial information, to insert into databases of financial companies. The system will use Java parser libraries to identify patterns in SEC forms, including data in plain text and tables. It analyzes sample SEC forms to understand the structure and focus on extracting data from table sections.
This document provides an overview of data mining. It defines data mining as a process that takes data as input and outputs knowledge. The data mining process involves preparing data, applying data mining algorithms to identify patterns, and evaluating the results. The document discusses the motivation for data mining, including the growth of data and need to analyze unstructured data. It outlines common data mining tasks like classification, regression, association rule mining, clustering, and text and link analysis. The tasks of classification and regression are described in more detail.
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This document discusses personal web usage mining, which involves analyzing individual user's web browsing and navigation data recorded on the client side, rather than server side web logs. It proposes recording both remote activities sent to web servers as well as local on-desktop activities in an activity log. This log, along with cached web pages, would be stored and processed in a data warehouse to facilitate data mining and the development of tools and applications to understand users' interests and enhance their web experience.
XML is a markup language designed to transport and store data. It was created to be self-descriptive and allows users to define their own elements. XML separates data from presentation and is used to create new internet languages, simplify data storage and sharing, and transport and make data more available across different platforms. XML documents form a tree structure with elements nested within other elements.
The document discusses several topics related to social aspects of the internet. It begins by defining social networking services and some popular examples like Facebook and Twitter. It then provides summaries of Google, Google+, and Twitter, describing them as major technology companies and social media platforms. The document also summarizes other topics like eLearning, eCommerce, eGovernment, eEntertainment, and how the internet is used for politics, activism, and telecommuting.
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jQuery is a JavaScript library that makes web development easier by simplifying common tasks like HTML/DOM manipulation, CSS manipulation, event handling, and Ajax interactions. It works by selecting elements and performing actions on them. Some key points covered include:
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- Common tasks like attaching event handlers, making Ajax calls, and animating elements are simplified in jQuery.
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2. Web Mining
The World Wide Web (Web) is a popular and interactive
medium to disseminate information today.
The Web is huge, diverse, and dynamic and thus raises
the scalability, multi-media data, and temporal issues
respectively.
3. Web Mining
The following problems when interacting with Web
a) Finding relevant information
People either browse or use the search service when they
want to find a specific information on the Web. When a user
uses search service he or she usually inputs a simple
keyword query and the query response is the list of pages
ranked based on their similarity to the query.
4. Web Mining
The following problems when interacting with Web
a) Finding relevant information
Search tools have the following problems.
1. Low precision
Which is due to the irrelevance of many of the search
results. This results in a difficulty finding the relevant
information.
2. Low recall
Which is due to the inability to index all the information
available on the web. This results in a difficulty finding the
unindexed information that is relevant.
5. Web Mining
The following problems when interacting with Web
b) Creating new knowledge out of the information
available on the Web.
This problem is data-triggered process that presumes that we
already have a collection of web data and we want to extract
potentially useful knowledge of of it(data mining oriented).
6. Web Mining
The following problems when interacting with Web
c) Personalization Of the Information.
This problem is often associated with the type and
presentation of information. People differ in the contents and
presentations they prefer while interacting with the Web.
7. Web Mining
The following problems when interacting with Web
d) Learning about consumers or individual Users.
This is a problem that specifically deals with above problem
which is about knowing what the customers do and want.
Inside this problem, there are sub-problems such as mass
customizing the information to the intended consumers or
even to personalize it to individual user, problem related to
effective Web site design and management, problem related
to marketing....
8. Web Mining
Web mining techniques could be used to solve the
information overload problem.
Other techniques and works from different research
areas,
Database (DB)
Information Retrieval (IR)
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Web Document Community
9. Web Mining
Web Mining is the use of data mining techniques to
automatically discover and extract information from Web
documents and services.
Decomposing Web mining into subtasks
1. Resource Finding: the task of retrieving intended Web
document.
2. Information selection and pre-processing: automatically
selecting and pre-processing specific information from
retrieved Web resources.
3. Generalization: automatically discovers general patterns
at individual Web sites as well as across multiple sites.
4. Analysis: validation and/or interpretation of the mined
patterns.
10. Web Mining
Web mining refers to the overall process of discovering
potentially useful and previously unknown information or
knowledge from the Web data. It implicitly covers the
standard process of knowledge discovery in database (KDD).
We could simply view Web mining as an extension of KDD
that is applied on the Web data.
From the KDD point of view, the information and knowledge
terms are interchangeable .
There is a close relationship between data mining, machine
learning, and advanced analysis.
11. Web Mining
Knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) is the process of
discovering useful knowledge from a collection of data. This
widely used data mining technique is a process that includes
data preparation and selection, data cleansing, incorporating
prior knowledge on data sets and interpreting accurate
solutions from the observed results.
12. Web Mining
Web Mining and Information Retrieval
Information Retrieval (IR) is the automatic retrieval of all relevant
documents while at the same time retrieving as few of the non-
relevant as possible.
IR has primary goals of indexing text and searching for useful
documents in a collection.
Research in IR – modeling, document classification and
categorization, user interfaces, data visualization, filtering...
The task that can be considered to be an instance of Web mining
is Web document classification or categorization, which could be
used for indexing.
Web mining is part of the (Web) IR process. We should note that
not all of the indexing tasks use data mining techniques
13. Web Mining
Web Mining and Information Extraction
Information Extraction (IE) has a goal of transforming a
collection of documents, usually with the help of an IR
system, into information that is more readily digested and
analyzed.
IE aims to extract relevant facts from the documents while IR
aims to select relevant documents.
While IE is interested in the structure or representation of a
document. IR views the text in a document just as a bag of
unordered words.
In general IE works as a finer granularity level than IR does
on the document.
14. Web Mining
Web Mining and Information Extraction
Building IE systems manually is not feasible and scalable for
such a dynamic and diverse medium such as Web contents.
Due to the nature of the Web, most IE systems focus on
specific Web sites to extract. Others use machine learning or
data mining techniques to learn the extraction patterns or
rules for Web documents semi-automatically or automatically.
Web mining is part of the (Web) IE process. Other views
regarding the relationship between (Web) IE and Web mining
also exist.
15. Web Mining
Web Mining and Information Extraction
The results of the IE process could be in the form of a
structured database or could be a compression or summary
of the original text or documents.
One could view for the former that IE is a kind of pre-
processing stage in the web mining process, which is the step
after the IR process and before the data mining techniques
are being performed.
IE can also be used to improve the indexing process, which is
part of the IR process.
Web mining is used to improve Web IE (Web mining is part of
IE).
16. Web Mining
Web Mining and Information Extraction
There are basically two types of IE:
Unstructured texts (Classical or traditional IE tasks)
Semi-structured data (Structural IE tasks)
Classical or traditional IE tasks
● IE tasks from unstructured natural language texts (Classical
or traditional IE tasks) typically use a rather basic to a
slightly deeper linguistic preprocessing before data mining.
● With roots on the NLP community, has been studied for
quite a long time
● MUCs and TIPSTER are competitive environments that
seek to improve IE and IR technologies.
17. Web Mining
Web Mining and Information Extraction
Classical or traditional IE tasks
● Usually relies on linguistic preprocessing such as syntactic
analysis, semantic analysis, and disclosure analysis.
● Could be called a core language technology.
18. Web Mining
Web Mining and Information Extraction
Structural IE tasks
● With the increasing popularity of the web, there is a need for
structural IE systems that extract information from
semistructured documents.
● Structural IE research is different from the classical one as it
usually utilizes meta information.
● HTML tags, simple syntactics, delimiters that are available
inside the semi-structured data.
● Structural IE approaches that do not use linguistic
constraints are termed wrapper induction.
● Some of the Structural IE systems are built manually by
knowledge engineering approach.
19. Web Mining
Web Mining and Information Extraction
Structural IE tasks
● More structural IE systems for web are built (semi)
automatically using machine learning techniques or other
algorithms as building the system manually in no longer
appropriate.
● These systems are usually built by using machine learning
or data mining techniques, which learn extraction rules from
the annotated corpora.
20. Web Mining
Web Mining and Machine Learning Applied on the Web
Web mining is not the same as learning from the Web or machine
learning techniques applied on the Web.
There are some applications of machine learning applied on the
Web that is not instances of Web mining.
An example of this is a machine learning technique that is used to
spider the Web efficiently for a specific topic that emphasize on
planning the best path that is going to be traversed next.
There are some other methods used for Web mining besides
machine learning methods.
Examples are some proprietary algorithms that is used for mining
the hubs and authorities, DataGuides and Web schema discovery.
21. Web Mining
Web Mining and Machine Learning Applied on the Web
Machine learning techniques support and help Web mining as they
could be applied to the processes in Web mining.
Applying machine learning techniques could improve the text
classification process compared to the traditional IR techniques.
Web mining intersects with the application of machine learning on
the Web.
22. Web Mining
Web Mining Categories
Web mining can be categorized into
● Web content mining
● Web structure mining
● Web usage mining
23. Web Mining
Web Mining Categories
Web content mining
Web content mining describes the discovery of useful
information from the Web contents/data/documents.
However, what consist of the web contents could
encompass a very broad range of data.
● Previously the Internet consists of different type of services
such as FTP, Gopher and Usenet Now most of those data
ported or accessible from the web.
● The growth in the amount of government information
● Existence of digital libraries that also accessible on the Web.
● Many companies are transforming their businesses and
services electronically.
● Many applications and systems are being migrated to the Web
● Many types of applications are emerging in the Web
environment
24. Web Mining
Web Mining Categories
Web content mining
Some of the Web content data are hidden data, which can not
be indexed.
These data are either generated dynamically as a result of
queries and reside in the DBMS or are private.
Web content consists of several type of data.
● Textual, image, audio, video, metadata as well as hyper-
links
● Multi types of data (Multimedia data mining)
25. Web Mining
Web Mining Categories
Web content mining
The Web content data consist of unstructured data such as
free texts, semi-structured data such as HTML documents,
and more structured data such as data in the tables and
databases generated HTML pages.
However, much of the Web content data are unstructured text
data.
Applying data mining techniques to unstructured text is
termed knowledge discovery in text (KDT) or text data mining
or text mining.
26. Web Mining
Web Mining Categories
Web content mining
Web content mining from 2 different points of view: IR and DB
● The goal of Web content mining from the IR view is
mainly to assist or to improve the information finding and
filtering the information to the users usually based on
either inferred or solicited user profiles.
● The goal of Web content mining from the DB view
mainly tries to model the data on the web and integrate
them so that more sophisticated queries other than the
keywords based search could be performed.
27. Web Mining
Web Mining Categories
Web structure mining
Web structure mining tries to discover the model underlying
the link structures of the Web.
The model is based on the topology of the hyper-links with or
without the description of the links.
This model can be used to categorize Web pages and is
useful to generate information such as the similarity and
relationship between Web sites.
Web structure mining could be used to discover authority
sites for the subjects (authorities) and overview sites for the
subjects that point to many authorities(hubs).
28. Web Mining
Web Mining Categories
Web usage mining
Web usage mining tries to make sense of data generated by
the Web surfer's sessions or behaviors.
The Web usage data includes the data from web server
access logs, proxy server logs, browser logs, user profiles,
registration data, user sessions or transactions, cookies, user
queries, bookmark data, mouse clicks and scrolls and any
other data as results of interaction.
29. Web Mining
Web Mining Categories
Web content and structure mining utilize the real or primary
data on the Web.
Web usage mining mines the secondary data derived from
the interactions of the users while interacting with the Web.
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32. Web Mining
Web Mining and the Agent Paradigm
Web mining is often viewed from or implemented within an
agent paradigm.
Web mining has a close relationship with software agents or
intelligent agents.
There 3 sub-categories of Software agents
● User Interface
● Distributed
● Mobile
User interface and distributed agents are relevant to web
mining tasks.
33. Web Mining
Web Mining and the Agent Paradigm
User Interface Agents
User Interface agents try to maximize the productivity of
current users interaction with the system adapting behaviors.
User Interface agents that can be classified into the Web
mining agent category are
● Informational retrieval agent
● Information filtering agent
● Personal assistant agent
34. Web Mining
Web Mining and the Agent Paradigm
Distributed Agents
Distribute agent technology is concerned with problem
solving by a group of agents and relevant agents in this
category are distributed agents for knowledge discovery or
data mining.
There are two frequently used approaches for developing
intelligent agents that help users find and retrieve relevant
information on the Web
● Content-based
● Collaborative
35. Web Mining
Web Mining and the Agent Paradigm
Distributed Agents
Content-based approach
The system searches for items that match based on an
analysis of the content using the user preference.
Collaborative approach
The system tries to find users with similar interests to give
recommendations to.
We could categorize the content-based methods as Web content
mining and categorize the collaborative approaches as Web usage
mining.
36. Web Mining
Web Mining and the Agent Paradigm
A similar view related that classifies the user interface agents
by underlying technology into:
Content-based filters (content mining)
Reputation filters (structure and content mining)
Collaborative or social based filters (usage mining)
Event-based filters (usage mining)
Hybrid filters (combination of categories)
37. Web Mining
WEB CONTENT DATA STRUCTURE
Web content consists of several types of data
Text, image, audio, video, hyperlinks.
Unstructured – free text
Semi-structured – HTML
More structured – Data in the tables or database
generated HTML pages
Note: much of the Web content data is unstructured text data.
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WEB CONTENT MINING
Information Retrieval View for Unstructured Documents
● Bag of words to represent unstructured documents
Takes single word as feature
Ignores the sequence in which words occur
● Features could be
Boolean
Word either occurs or does not occur in a document
Frequency based
Frequency of the word in a document
● Variations of the feature selection include
Removing the case, punctuation, infrequent words and stop
words.
● Features can be reduced using different feature selection techniques:
Information gain, mutual information, cross entropy.
Stemming: which reduces words to their morphological roots.
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WEB CONTENT MINING
Information Retrieval View for Unstructured Documents
Other feature representations
● Word position in document
● Using phrases
● Using hypernyms
The use of text compression techniques is rather new for text
classification tasks.
The applications range from text classification or categorization, event
detection and tracking, finding extraction patterns or rules, to finding
some interesting patterns in the text documents.
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WEB CONTENT MINING
Information Retrieval View for Unstructured Documents
Event detection and tracking problems are sub topics of a
broader initiative called Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT).
● TDT – is an initiative to investigate the state of the art in finding and
following new events in a stream of news stories broadcast.
● Text Mining – has been used to describe different applications such
as text categorization, text clustering, empirical computational
linguistic tasks, exploratory data analysis, finding patterns in text
databases, finding sequential pattern in text and association
discovery.
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WEB CONTENT MINING
Information Retrieval View for Unstructured Documents
in term of Knowledge Discovery in Text (KDT) or Text mining to
structure the text documents by means of information
extraction, text categorization, or applying NLP techniques as
pre-processing step before performing any kind of KDT s.
● Currently term of Text Mining – has been used to describe different
applications such as text categorization, text clustering, empirical
computational linguistic tasks, exploratory data analysis, finding
patterns in text databases, finding sequential pattern in text and
association discovery.
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WEB CONTENT MINING
Database View
The database techniques on the Web are related to the problems
of managing and querying the information on the Web.
There are 3 classes of tasks
Modeling and querying the Web
Information extraction and integration
Web site construction and restructuring
DB view tries to infer the structure of a Web site or transform a
Web site to become a database
Better information management
Better querying on the Web
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WEB CONTENT MINING
Database View
The DB view of Web content mining mainly tries to model the data on the
Web and integrate them so that more sophisticated queries other than key
word baseds search could be performed.
Can be achieved by:
Finding the schema of Web documents
Building a Web warehouse
Building a Web knowledge base
Building a virtual database
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WEB CONTENT MINING
Database View
DB view mainly uses the Object Exchange Model (OEM)
● Represents semi-structured data by a labeled graph
● The data in the OEM is viewed as a graph, with objects as the vertices and
labels on the edges
● Each object is identified by an object identifier [oid]
● Value is either atomic(integer, string, gif, html.....) or complex
Process typically starts with manual selection of Web sites for doing Web
content mining instead of searching the whole Internet for the specific
resources.
Main application:
The task of finding frequent substructures in semi-structured data.
The task of creating multi-layered database (MLDB) in which each layer is
obtained by generalization on lower layers and use a special purpose query
language for Web mining to extract some knowledge form MLDB of web
document.
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WEB CONTENT MINING
Database View
DataGuide is a kind of structural summary o semi-structured data
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Web Structure Mining
Interested in the structure of the hyperlinks within the
Web
Inspired by the study of social networks and citation
analysis
● Can discover specific types of pages(such as hubs, authorities, etc.)
based on the incoming and outgoing links.
Application:
Discovering micro-communities in the Web ,
measuring the “completeness” of a Web site
47. Web Mining
Web Usage Mining
Tries to predict user behavior from interaction with the Web
Wide range of data (logs)
● Web client data
● Proxy server data
● Web server data
The Web usage data could also be represented with graps
Two common approaches
● Maps the usage data of Web server into relational tables before an
adapted data mining techniques.
● Uses the log data directly by utilizing special pre-processing
techniques
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Web Usage Mining
Typical problems:
● Distinguishing among unique users, server sessions, episodes, etc. in the
presence of caching and proxy servers
● Often Usage Mining uses some background or domain knowledge
E.g. Navigation templates, site topology, Web content, Site
topology, concept hierarchy and syntactics constraints , etc.
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Web Usage Mining
Applications:
Two main categories:
● Learning a user profile (personalized)
Web users would be interested in techniques that learn their
needs and preferences automatically
● Learning user navigation patterns (impersonalized)
Information providers would be interested in techniques that
improve the effectiveness of their Web site