Web Data Mining: Exploring Hyperlinks, Contents, and Usage Data (Data-Centric Systems and Applications) - Softcover

Liu, Bing

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3540378812 ISBN 13: 9783540378815

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K, 2006

Synopsis

This book provides a comprehensive text on Web data mining. Key topics of structure mining, content mining, and usage mining are covered. The book brings together all the essential concepts and algorithms from related areas such as data mining, machine learning, and text processing to form an authoritative and coherent text. The book offers a rich blend of theory and practice. It is suitable for students, researchers and practitioners interested in Web mining. Lecturers can readily use it for classes on data mining, Web mining, and Web search. Internet support with lecture slides and project problems is available online.

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About the Author

Bing Liu is an associate professor in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He received his PhD degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh. Before joining UIC in 2002, he was with the National University of Singapore. His research interests include data mining, Web mining, text mining, and machine learning. He has published extensively in these areas in leading conferences and journals. He served (or serves) as a vice chair, deputy vice chair or program committee member of many conferences, including WWW, KDD, ICML, VLDB, ICDE, AAAI, SDM, CIKM and ICDM.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540378812
• ISBN 13: 9783540378815
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 556