Detecting user sessions in the tumba! web log
Nuno Seco, Nuno Cardoso · Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT) · 2006
This paper describes an approach to detect distinct user sessions from the logs of a particular search engine.We present our work by describing the proposed algorithm and some interesting usage patterns that were detected.Some pitfalls of our approach are also noted.Finally, we give some insights on how web log mining could be exploited in other areas such as semantic relation extraction or query expansion.