Classification and regression
Johannes E. Gehrke, Wie-Yin Loh, Raghu Ramakrishnan · 1999
With over 800 million pages covering most areas of human endeavor, the World-wide Web is a fertile ground for data mining research to make a difference to the effectiveness of information search. Today, Web surfers access the Web through two dominant interfaces clicking on hyperlinks and searching via keyword queries This process is often tentative and unsatisfactory Better support is needed for expressing one's information need and dealing with a search result in more structured ways than available now. Data mining and machine learning have significant roles to play towards this end.