Most of the existing techniques for characterization of Web documents are based on term-frequent), analysis. In such models, given a set of documents, the characterization of each document is represented by a feature vector in a vector space. Howevel; as Web documents written in HTML are semi-structured documents by means of tags, the traditional techniques that assign term weights only by the ...

Recent developments in office productivity suites make it easier for users to publish rich compound documents on the Web. Compound documents appear as a single unit of information but may contain data generated by different applications, such as text, images, and spreadsheets. Given the popularity enjoyed by these office suites and the pervasiveness of the Web as a publication medium, we expect...

The rapid growth of the World Wide Web and the Internet has fueled interest in Web services and the Semantic Web, which are quickly becoming important parts of modern electronic commerce systems. An interesting segment of the Web services domain are the facilities for document manipulation including Web search, information monitoring, data extraction, and page comparison. These services are bui...

In many web applications, such as the distance learning, the frequency of refreshing multimedia web documents places a heavy burden on the WWW resources. Moreover, the updated web documents may encounter inordinate delays, which make it difficult to retrieve web documents in time. Here, we present an Internet tool called WEBCAP that can schedule the retrieval of multimedia web documents in time...

The creation time of documents is an important kind of information in temporal information retrieval, especially for document clustering, timeline construction and search engine improvements. Considering the manner in which content on the Web is created, updated & deleted, the common assumption that each document has only one creation time is not suitable for Web documents. In this paper, we in...

The Semantic Web is an extension of the current Web where information is represented in a machine processable way. It is not separate from the current Web and one of the confusions that novice users might have is where the Semantic Web is. In fact, users can easily encounter RDF documents that are components of the Semantic Web while they navigate among Web pages. In addition, the number of RDF...

Web mining is a one class of data mining. Web Mining is a variation of data mining that distills untapped source of abundantly available free textual information. The need and importance of web mining is growing along with the massive volumes of data generated in web day-to-day life. Web data Clustering is the organization of a collection of web documents into clusters based on similarity. A go...