Mining the World Wide Web: An Information Search Approach

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This work explores the concepts and techniques of Web mining, a promising and rapidly growing field of computer science research. Web mining is a multidisciplinary field, drawing on such areas as artificial intelligence, databases, data mining, data warehousing, data visualization, information retrieval, machine learning, markup languages, pattern recognition, statistics, and Web technology. This title presents the Web mining material from an information search perspective, focusing on issues relating to the efficiency, feasibility, scalability and usability of searching techniques for Web mining. It is designed for researchers and developers of Web information systems and also serves as a supplemental reference to advanced level courses in data mining, databases and information retrieval.