RESEARCH ON WEB TEXT MINING

With the flood of information on the Web, Web mining is a new research issue which draws great interest from many communities. Currently, there is no agreement about Web mining yet. It needs more discussion among scientists in order to define what it is exactly. Meanwhile, the development of Web mining system will promote its research in turn. In this paper, a systemic discussion about the principle of Web mining is presented, including the definition, the relationship between information mining and retrieval on the Web, the taxonomy and function. Then the methods of text mining on the Web are discussed in detail and a prototype of Web text mining system WebMiner is introduced. WebMiner is a multi agent system which combines text mining and multi dimension text analysis in order to help user in mining HTML documents on the Web efficiently and effectively.