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Mining the World Wide Web

An Information Search Approach

Part of the book series: The Information Retrieval Series (INRE, volume 10)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Information Retrieval on the Web

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Keyword-Based Search Engines

      • George Chang, Marcus J. Healey, James A. M. McHugh, Jason T. L. Wang
      Pages 3-18
    3. Query-Based Search Systems

      • George Chang, Marcus J. Healey, James A. M. McHugh, Jason T. L. Wang
      Pages 19-34
    4. Mediators and Wrappers

      • George Chang, Marcus J. Healey, James A. M. McHugh, Jason T. L. Wang
      Pages 35-50
    5. Multimedia Search Engines

      • George Chang, Marcus J. Healey, James A. M. McHugh, Jason T. L. Wang
      Pages 51-63
  3. Data Mining on the Web

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
    2. Data Mining

      • George Chang, Marcus J. Healey, James A. M. McHugh, Jason T. L. Wang
      Pages 67-80
    3. Text Mining

      • George Chang, Marcus J. Healey, James A. M. McHugh, Jason T. L. Wang
      Pages 81-92
    4. Web Mining

      • George Chang, Marcus J. Healey, James A. M. McHugh, Jason T. L. Wang
      Pages 93-104
    5. Web Crawling Agents

      • George Chang, Marcus J. Healey, James A. M. McHugh, Jason T. L. Wang
      Pages 105-115
  4. A Case Study in Environmental Engineering

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
    2. Envirodaemon

      • George Chang, Marcus J. Healey, James A. M. McHugh, Jason T. L. Wang
      Pages 119-136
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 137-170

About this book

Mining the World Wide Web: An Information Search Approach 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. Mining the World Wide Web 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.
Mining the World Wide Web is designed for researchers and developers of Web information systems and also serves as an excellent supplemental reference to advanced level courses in data mining, databases and information retrieval.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Kean University, Union, USA

    George Chang

  • Mobilocity, New York, USA

    Marcus J. Healey

  • New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, USA

    James A. M. McHugh, Jason T. L. Wang

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