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Web Content Mining
Web Content Mining
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7.1 Introduction
Web-content mining techniques (Liu, B.; Chang, K., 2004) are used to discover useful informa-
tion from content on the Web. The Web contains a variety of information such as documents
from digital libraries, government sites providing information about services and regulations,
and business services providing information about products, as well as an ability to conduct
e-commerce. Web content (Hand, D.; Mannila H.; and Smyth P, 2001) can be textual, audio,
video, still images, metadata, or hyperlinks. Some web content is generated ...