Focused crawling by learning HMM from user's topic-specific browsing

Proceedings - IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 732-735

  Liu, Hongyu ^a   Milios, Evangelos ^a   Janssen, Jeannette ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPH THEORY; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEARCH ENGINES; SEMANTICS; WEB BROWSERS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

BEST-FIRST STRATEGY; FOCUSED CRAWLING; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL (HMM); PATTERN LEARNING;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 15544365705     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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