Web Mining: From Web to Semantic Web: First European Web Mining Forum, EWMF 2003, Cavtat-Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 22, 2003, Revised Selected and Invited Papers

by Bettina Berendt (Editor), Andreas Hotho (Editor), Dunja Mladenic (Editor), Maarten van Someren (Editor), Myra Spiliopoulou (Editor)

Overview

In the last years, research on Web mining has reached maturity and has broadened in scope. Two different but interrelated research threads have emerged, based on the dual nature of the Web: – The Web is a practically inflnite collection of documents: The acquisition and - ploitation of information from these documents asks for intelligent techniques for information categorization, extraction and search, as well as for adaptivity to the interests and background of the organization or person that looks for information. – The Web is a venue for doing business electronically: It is a venue for interaction, information acquisition and service exploitation used by public authorities, n- governmental organizations, communities of interest and private persons. When observed as a venue for the achievement of business goals, a Web presence should be aligned to the objectives of its owner and the requirements of its users. This raises the demand for understandingWeb usage, combining it with other sources of knowledge inside an organization, and deriving lines of action. The birth of the Semantic Web at the beginning of the decadeled to a coercion of the two threadsintwoaspects:(i)the extraction of semantics from the Web to build the Semantic Web; and (ii) the exploitation of these semantics to better support information acquisition and to enhance the interaction for business and non-business purposes. Semantic Web mining encompasses both aspects from the viewpoint of knowledge discovery.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540232582
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	12/08/2004
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science , #3209
Edition description:	2004
Pages:	206
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

A Roadmap for Web Mining: From Web to Semantic Web.- On the Deployment of Web Usage Mining.- Mining the Web to Add Semantics to Retail Data Mining.- Semantically Enhanced Collaborative Filtering on the Web.- Mapping Documents onto Web Page Ontology.- Mining Web Sites Using Wrapper Induction, Named Entities, and Post-processing.- Web Community Directories: A New Approach to Web Personalization.- Evaluation and Validation of Two Approaches to User Profiling.- Greedy Recommending Is Not Always Optimal.- An Approach to Estimate the Value of User Sessions Using Multiple Viewpoints and Goals.- Monitoring the Evolution of Web Usage Patterns.