Web Mining: From Web to Semantic Web First European Web Mining F

In the last years, research on Web mining has reached maturity and has broadened in scope. Two different but interrelated research threads have emerged, based on the dual nature of the Web: – The Web is a practically in?nite collection of documents: The a

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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Bettina Berendt Andreas Hotho Dunja Mladenic Maarten van Someren Myra Spiliopoulou Gerd Stumme (Eds.)

Web Mining: From Web to Semantic Web First European Web Mining Forum, EWMF 2003 Cavtat-Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 22, 2003 Invited and Selected Revised Papers

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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA J¨org Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbr¨ucken, Germany Volume Editors Bettina Berendt Humboldt University Berlin, Institute of Information Systems E-mail: [email protected] Andreas Hotho University of Kassel, Department of Mathematics and Informatics E-mail: [email protected] Dunja Mladenic J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia and Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA E-mail: [email protected] Maarten van Someren University of Amsterdam, Department of Social Science Informatics E-mail: [email protected] Myra Spiliopoulou Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg, ITI/FIN E-mail: [email protected] Gerd Stumme University of Kassel, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science E-mail: [email protected]

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Preface

In the last years, research on Web mining has reached maturity and has broadened in scope. Two different but interrelated research threads have emerged, based on the dual nature of the Web: – The Web is a practically infinite collection of documents: The acquisition and exploitation of information from these documents asks for intelligent techniques for information categorization, extraction and search, as well as for adaptivity to the interests and background of the organization or person that looks for information. – The Web is a venue for doing business electronically: It is a venue for interaction, information acquisition and service exploitation used by public authorities, nongovernmental organizations, communities of interest and private persons. When observed as a venue for the achievement of business goals