Web mining taxonomy

Abstract

The information publication on the Internet increases the information accessibility. However, the amount of data on the Internet increases rapidly and it becomes difficult to find the needed information among multiple possible sources. Therefore, automated tools for web mining gain their popularity and seek to simplify the gathering of the information, published on the internet. The purpose of information gathering as well as web page development technologies, format of published data and other properties might be different therefore different web mining methods exist. However, there is no clear classification or a complete list of web mining techniques therefore it is difficult to fully understand the web mining area. In this paper we present a new web mining taxonomy, designed to clarify the web mining area. The taxonomy will serve as classification methodology and will allow classification of existing web mining technologies or methods according to clearly defined criteria and categories.