Web Content Mining Techniques and Applications

This book illustrates the concepts and applications of web mining from the nature of web
data sources to discovering and representing the extracted knowledge. Starting with an overview of data mining, it introduces web mining and draws comparisons between data
mining and web mining. After this introduction the book covers data sources, categories
and classes of web mining, including the subfields of Web Structure Mining, Web Usage
Mining and Web Content Mining. it incorporates practical methods of analysing various
web data sources and extracting knowledge by taking into consideration the unique
challenges and multidisciplinary and novel approaches needed.

Key Features:

Focus on web mining applications in knowledge discovery in databases.

Includes techniques and applications.

Accompanying code and data sets

Reviews present state of play and future challenges