Mining the Web
Discovering Knowledge from Hypertext Data

The definitive book on mining the Web from the preeminent authority.

Soumen Chakrabarti (Author)

9781558607545, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 16 October 2002

368 pages
23.4 x 18.6 x 2.5 cm, 0.79 kg

"...solid and beneficial to readers interested in Web data mining, especially those interested in the details of algorithmic implementation." --Bernard J. Jansen, Information Processing & Management"The treatment is systematic, comprehensive and in-depth, yet very lucid and accessible to a wide range of Web technology developers. The author's insights and depth of knowledge as on of the pioneering researchers on hypertext information mining and retrieval are also evident in the extensive and useful bibliographic notes provided at the end of each chapter..." --Professor Joydeep Ghosh, University of Texas, Austin"The author has done the community a great service by synthesizing all the important work in this field into an excellent book, which introduces fairly sophisticated material in an easy-to-read manner. This book for the first time, makes it possible to offer Web Mining as a real course." --Professor Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota" Mining the Web: Discovering Knowledge from Hypertext from Hypertext Data, by Soumen Chakrabarti, focuses extensively on building a better search engine crawler...Chakrabarti's book begins with a discussion of search engine crawlers in a chapter titled "Crawling the Web." The discussion in this chapter is technical and detailed. Readers learn about features such as the robots.txt file that can be written in a certain way to stop crawlers from visiting a page...The most interesting part of the book is perhaps Chapter 7, "Social Network Analysis." In this chapter, the author presents the most famous search engine algorithms (e.g., PageRank, HITS, SALSA)." --Journal of Marketing Research, Sandeep Krishnamurthy"All in all this is an excellent book. I enjoyed the book and highly recommend it as a textbook for web data mining classes at graduate or senior undergraduate levels. Chakrabarti has a rich vocabulary and is a gifted writer. I bet he will write new, good books in the future, and he should. I look forward to them." --Fazli Can - Miami University

Mining the Web: Discovering Knowledge from Hypertext Data is the first book devoted entirely to techniques for producing knowledge from the vast body of unstructured Web data. Building on an initial survey of infrastructural issues—including Web crawling and indexing—Chakrabarti examines low-level machine learning techniques as they relate specifically to the challenges of Web mining. He then devotes the final part of the book to applications that unite infrastructure and analysis to bring machine learning to bear on systematically acquired and stored data. Here the focus is on results: the strengths and weaknesses of these applications, along with their potential as foundations for further progress. From Chakrabarti's work—painstaking, critical, and forward-looking—readers will gain the theoretical and practical understanding they need to contribute to the Web mining effort.

Preface. Introduction. I Infrastructure: Crawling the Web. Web search. II Learning: Similarity and clustering. Supervised learning for text. Semi-supervised learning. III Applications: Social network analysis. Resource discovery. The future of Web mining.

Subject Areas: Expert systems / knowledge-based systems [UYQE], Artificial intelligence [UYQ], Databases & the Web [UNN], Internet: general works [UBW], Library, archive & information management [GLC]