Web mining aims to discover useful information and
knowledge from Web hyperlinks, page contents, and usage
data. Although Web mining uses many conventional data
mining techniques, it is not purely an application of
traditional data mining due to the semi-structured and
unstructured nature of the Web data. The field has also
developed many of its own algorithms and techniques. Liu
has written a comprehensive text on Web mining, which
consists of two parts. The first part covers the data
mining and machine learning foundations, where all the
essential concepts and algorithms of data mining and
machine learning are presented. The second part covers
the key topics of Web mining, where Web crawling,
search, social network analysis, structured data
extraction, information integration, opinion mining and
sentiment analysis, Web usage mining, query log mining,
computational advertising, and recommender systems are
all treated both in breadth and in depth. His book thus
brings all the related concepts and algorithms together
to form an authoritative and coherent text. The book
offers a rich blend of theory and practice.It is
suitable for students, researchers and practitioners
interested in Web mining and data mining both as a
learning text and as a reference book. Professors can
readily use it for classes on data mining, Web mining,
and text mining. Additional teaching materials such as
lecture slides, datasets, and implemented algorithms are
available online. |
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