Monitoring and Indexing System for Illegal Tobacco Sales on Website in Thailand by Using Web Crawler Technique
Pichitpong Soontornpipit · Applied Mechanics and Materials · 2015
This research designs an artificial intelligent (AI) system for monitoring and collecting tobacco sales on website in Thailand. The web mining and web crawler enhanced with AI are used for gathering a list of URL page while filtering and discarding the redundant pages. Only the websites that sale tobacco products such as cigarettes and electronics-cigarette (e-cigarette) are collected and indexed. Social media like blog, Facebook, Twitter and Line are also included. The data results have been sent monthly to the Excise department at Ministry of Finance (MOF) and Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for more investigation and process in courts.