Web mining: knowledge discovery on the Web

Author

Jicheng, Wang ; Yuan, Huang ; Gangshan, Wu ; Fuyan, Zhang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Nanjing Univ., China

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

6/21/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

137

Abstract

With the flood of information on the World Wide Web, Web mining is a new research issue which is drawing great interest from many communities. Currently, there is no agreement about Web mining; it needs more discussion among researchers in order to define exactly what it is. Meanwhile, the development of Web mining systems will in turn promote its research. In this paper, we present a preliminary discussion about Web mining, including its definition, the relationship between information mining and information retrieval on the Web, and the taxonomy and the function of Web mining. In addition, a prototype system called WebTMS (Web Text Mining System) has been designed. WebTMS is a multi-agent system which combines text mining and multi-dimensional document analysis to help users mine HTML documents on the Web effectively

Keywords

data mining; hypermedia markup languages; information resources; information retrieval; multi-agent systems; text analysis; HTML documents; Web Text Mining System; WebTMS; World Wide Web mining; definition; information mining; information retrieval; knowledge discovery; multi-agent system; multi-dimensional document analysis; prototype system; taxonomy; Data mining; Floods; Information retrieval; Multiagent systems; Prototypes; Taxonomy; Text analysis; Text mining; Web mining; Web sites;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1999. IEEE SMC '99 Conference Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5731-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.1999.825222

Filename

825222