Web mining: knowledge discovery on the Web
Wang Jicheng, Yuan Huang, Gangshan Wu, Zhang Fuyan · 2003
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.