Web Social Mining
Marcia J. Bates · Auerbach Publications eBooks · 2011
Web social mining refers to conducting social network mining on Web data. Here, we adopt a very broad interpretation of Web data which includes Web sites, Web pages, Web servers’ and applications’ log data, as well as user-generated data from Web 2.0[1] sites. As increasing amount of user data is made available on the Web, it opens up a new world of opportunities for the Web data to be mined for realizing new applications and making existing ones work more intelligently.