Automatic categorization of Web pages and user clustering with mixtures of hidden Markov models

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 2703, Issue , 2003, Pages 35-49

  Ypma, Alexander ^a   Heskes, Tom ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Automatic categorization; Clustering; Data mining; Hidden Markov models; Mixture models; Navigation patterns; User profiling; Web usage mining

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA MINING; GRAPHIC METHODS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; NAVIGATION; PROBABILITY; SEMANTICS; MIXTURES; WEBSITES;

AUTOMATIC CATEGORIZATION; CLUSTERING; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (HMM); MIXTURE MODELS; NAVIGATION PATTERNS; USER PROFILING; WEB USAGE MINING; MIXTURE MODEL;

WEBSITES; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 23144437001     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-39663-5_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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