Graph-Theoretic Teachings for Web Content Mining

Schenker, Adam; Bunke, Horst; Last, Mark; Kandel, Abraham

ISBN 10: 9812563393 / ISBN 13: 9789812563392

Published by World Scientific Publishing Company, 2005

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Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket is front is sun faded and has a white sticker, but it is crisp and free of edge wear. Binding is tight and corners are square. 235 bright and clean pages. Overall, this book is in good condition. We ship every day from a real neighborhood bookstore. This description is written by an actual person, who is holding the book in front of them to make sure it?s properly described. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Graph-Theoretic Teachings for Web Content Mining
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9812563393
• ISBN 13: 9789812563392
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 17 ounces

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Synopsis

This book describes exciting new opportunities for utilizing robust graph representations of data with common machine learning algorithms. Graphs can model additional information which is often not present in commonly used data representations, such as vectors. Through the use of graph distance -- a relatively new approach for determining graph similarity -- the authors show how well-known algorithms, such as k-means clustering and k-nearest neighbors classification, can be easily extended to work with graphs instead of vectors. This allows for the utilization of additional information found in graph representations, while at the same time employing well-known, proven algorithms.To demonstrate and investigate these novel techniques, the authors have selected the domain of web content mining, which involves the clustering and classification of web documents based on their textual substance. Several methods of representing web document content by graphs are introduced; an interesting feature of these representations is that they allow for a polynomial time distance computation, something which is typically an NP-complete problem when using graphs. Experimental results are reported for both clustering and classification in three web document collections using a variety of graph representations, distance measures, and algorithm parameters.In addition, this book describes several other related topics, many of which provide excellent starting points for researchers and students interested in exploring this new area of machine learning further. These topics include creating graph-based multiple classifier ensembles through random node selection and visualization of graph-based data using multidimensional scaling.