Research Areas

Dr. Hassan Fadlallah

 Research Areas
 Web Mining
 Semantic Web
 Semantic web mining
 Information Retrieval
 Web Mining
 Aims at discovering insights about the meaning of Web
resources and their usage.
 Web mining is the application of data mining technique to
automatically discover and gathered information from web
documents and services.
Challenges:
The document structure itself.
Web document is different from other traditional
documents in traditional data mining.
how to extract these types of data and how to manipulate
them.
 Web Mining: Categories
Web Content Mining
Web Usage Mining
Web Structure Mininig
 Web Mining: Web Content Mining
 The process of using data mining techniques to
retrieve useful information and knowledge from
resources across the entire web or inside a
particular web site.
 How to mine the content of documents.
 How to improve the content search of tools like search
engine
 Web Mining: Web usage mining
 Is application of data mining techniques to discover usage
patterns from web data, in order to better serve the needs
of web based applications.
 To get a better understanding of the reactions and
motivations of users navigation.
Applications and problems:
 apply the mining results to improve the design of Web
site.
 analyze system performances
 build adaptive Web sites
 Web Mining: Web structure mining
 the process of obtaining and using link structures of the
web approach.
 Semantic Web
 web that contains information with their well defined meaning
 It describes the relationship between keywords and the properties of
the keywords.
 Challenges:
o search engines do return pages involving the required keywords, and
the majority of the results are irrevalent.
 how to extract related Web pages of user interest
 given a set of potentially related Web pages, how to rank them
according to relevance.
 Semantic Similarity measures plays an important role in information
retrieval, natural language processing and various tasks on web such
as relation extraction, community mining, document clustering, and
automatic meta-data extraction
 Semantic Web
Problems:
 To evaluate the effectiveness of a Web search mechanism
in finding and ranking results, measures of semantic
similarity are needed
 to measure Semantic Similarity between Words in
Semantic Web
 Semantic Web
Problems:
 To evaluate the effectiveness of a Web search mechanism
in finding and ranking results, measures of semantic
similarity are needed
 to measure Semantic Similarity between Words in
Semantic Web
 Semantic web mining
 Aims at combining the two fast-developing research areas
Semantic Web and Web Mining.
 Web Mining aims at discovering insights about the meaning of
Web resources and their usage.
 Challenges:
o How to enable search engines and other programs to better
understand the content of Web pages and sites.
 Problems:
 improving the results of Web Mining by exploiting semantic
structures in the Web.
 make use of Web Mining techniques for building the Semantic
Web.
 Ontology mapping
 Evaluation ontology metrics