Classification of Web page content is essential to many tasks in Web information retrieval
such as maintaining Web directories and focused crawling. The uncontrolled nature of Web …

Liu has written a comprehensive text on Web mining, which consists of two parts. The first
part covers the data mining and machine learning foundations, where all the essential …

Evaluative texts on the Web have become a valuable source of opinions on products,
services, events, individuals, etc. Recently, many researchers have studied such opinion …

The rapid growth of the Web in the past two decades has made it the largest publicly
accessible data source in the world. Web mining aims to discover useful information or …

In this paper, we continue our investigations of" web spam": the injection of artificially-
created pages into the web in order to influence the results from search engines, to drive …

Search engines became a de facto place to start information acquisition on the Web. Though
due to web spam phenomenon, search results are not always as good as desired …

The effectiveness of information retrieval systems is measured by comparing performance
on a common set of queries and documents. Significance tests are often used to evaluate …

The increasing importance of search engines to commercial web sites has given rise to a
phenomenon we call" web spam", that is, web pages that exist only to mislead search …

The visual appearance of a Web page influences the way a user will interact with the page.
Web page structural elements (such as text, tables, links, and images) and their …

We present an approach for detecting link spam common in blog comments by comparing
the language models used in the blog post, the comment, and pages linked by the …