Improving pattern quality in web usage mining by using semantic information

Knowledge and Information Systems

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 527-541

  Senkul, Pinar ^a   Salin, Suleyman ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Frequent navigation pattern; Ontology; Recommendation; Semantics; Sequential association rule mining; Web usage mining

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856700570     PISSN: 02191377     EISSN: 02193116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10115-011-0386-4     Document Type: Article

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