Web mining research
ACM SIGKDD Explorations NewsletterPublished 1 June 2000Open access
Raymond Kosala, Hendrik Blockeel
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This paper surveys the research in the area of Web mining, point out some confusions regarded the usage of the term Web mining and suggest three Web mining categories, which are then situate some of the research with respect to these three categories.
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