Dynamic Web log session identification with statistical language models

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 55, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 1290-1303

  Huang, Xiangji ^a   Peng, Fuchun ^b   An, Aijun ^a   Schuurmans, Dale ^c  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MINING ALGORITHMS; WEB LOG; WEB MINING;

ALGORITHMS; DATA MINING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUERY LANGUAGES; STATISTICAL METHODS; USER INTERFACES; WEBSITES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 9744277583     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20084     Document Type: Article

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