Mining interesting knowledge from weblogs: a survey

The World Wide Web is an immense source of data that can come either from the Web content, represented by the billions of pages publicly available, or from the Web usage, represented by the log information daily collected by all the servers around the world. Web Mining [1] is that area of Data Mining which deals with the extraction of interesting knowledge from the World Wide Web. More precisely [2], Web Content Mining is that part of Web Mining which focuses on the raw information available in Web pages; source data mainly consist of textual data in Web pages (e.g., words, but also tags); typical applications are content-based categorization and content-based UN C