Question # 2: Can Web Structure Be Mined?
Use topic hierarchies for document classification?
- Topic hierarchies, such as CS classifications, are essential components for document classification
- Yahoo!, AOL, and other information service providers are teachers (training sets) for Web page automatic classification
- Classification leads to “lattices”, “trees”, or “clusters”
Mine patterns involving Web pages and hyperlinks?
- Find authoritative Web pages
- Find Web page structures and clusters.
- Query and mine Web structures