Web Content Classification: A Survey
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paper_title: Introduction to data mining and its applications

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to Data Mining Principles.- Data Warehousing, Data Mining, and OLAP.- Data Marts and Data Warehouse.- Evolution and Scaling of Data Mining Algorithms.- Emerging Trends and Applications of Data Mining.- Data Mining Trends and Knowledge Discovery.- Data Mining Tasks, Techniques, and Applications.- Data Mining: an Introduction - Case Study.- Data Mining & KDD.- Statistical Themes and Lessons for Data Mining.- Theoretical Frameworks for Data Mining.- Major and Privacy Issues in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.- Active Data Mining.- Decomposition in Data Mining - A Case Study.- Data Mining System Products and Research Prototypes.- Data Mining in Customer Value and Customer Relationship Management.- Data Mining in Business.- Data Mining in Sales Marketing and Finance.- Banking and Commercial Applications.- Data Mining for Insurance.- Data Mining in Biomedicine and Science.- Text and Web Mining.- Data Mining in Information Analysis and Delivery.- Data Mining in Telecommunications and Control.- Data Mining in Security.
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paper_title: Introduction to data mining and its applications

paper_content:

to Data Mining Principles.- Data Warehousing, Data Mining, and OLAP.- Data Marts and Data Warehouse.- Evolution and Scaling of Data Mining Algorithms.- Emerging Trends and Applications of Data Mining.- Data Mining Trends and Knowledge Discovery.- Data Mining Tasks, Techniques, and Applications.- Data Mining: an Introduction - Case Study.- Data Mining & KDD.- Statistical Themes and Lessons for Data Mining.- Theoretical Frameworks for Data Mining.- Major and Privacy Issues in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.- Active Data Mining.- Decomposition in Data Mining - A Case Study.- Data Mining System Products and Research Prototypes.- Data Mining in Customer Value and Customer Relationship Management.- Data Mining in Business.- Data Mining in Sales Marketing and Finance.- Banking and Commercial Applications.- Data Mining for Insurance.- Data Mining in Biomedicine and Science.- Text and Web Mining.- Data Mining in Information Analysis and Delivery.- Data Mining in Telecommunications and Control.- Data Mining in Security.
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paper_title: Overview of Web Content Mining Tools

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Nowadays, the Web has become one of the most widespread platforms for information change and retrieval. As it becomes easier to publish documents, as the number of users, and thus publishers, increases and as the number of documents grows, searching for information is turning into a cumbersome and time-consuming operation. Due to heterogeneity and unstructured nature of the data available on the WWW, Web mining uses various data mining techniques to discover useful knowledge from Web hyperlinks, page content and usage log. The main uses of web content mining are to gather, categorize, organize and provide the best possible information available on the Web to the user requesting the information. The mining tools are imperative to scanning the many HTML documents, images, and text. Then, the result is used by the search engines. In this paper, we first introduce the concepts related to web mining; we then present an overview of different Web Content Mining tools. We conclude by presenting a comparative table of these tools based on some pertinent criteria.
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paper_title: On The Automated Classification of Web Pages Using Artificial Neural Network

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The World Wide Web is growing at an uncontrollable rate. Hundreds of thousands of web sites appear every day, with the added challenge of keeping the web directories up-to-date. Further, the uncontrolled nature of web presents difficulties for Web page classification. As the number of Internet users is growing, so is the need for classification of web pages with greater precision in order to present the users with web pages of their desired class. However, web page classification has been accomplished mostly by using textual categorization methods. Herein, we propose a novel approach for web page classification that uses the HTML information present in a web page for its classification. There are many ways of achieving classification of web pages into various domains. This paper proposes an entirely new dimension towards web page classification using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). Index Terms: World Wide Web, Web page classification, textual categorization, HTML, Artificial Neural Networks, ANN.
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paper_title: Intelligent water drops algorithm for rough set feature selection

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In this article; Intelligent Water Drops (IWD) algorithm is adapted for feature selection with Rough Set (RS). Specifically, IWD is used to search for a subset of features based on RS dependency as an evaluation function. The resulting system, called IWDRSFS (Intelligent Water Drops for Rough Set Feature Selection), is evaluated with six benchmark data sets. The performance of IWDRSFS are analysed and compared with those from other methods in the literature. The outcomes indicate that IWDRSFS is able to provide competitive and comparable results. In summary, this study shows that IWD is a useful method for undertaking feature selection problems with RS.
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paper_title: Firefly Algorithm: Recent Advances and Applications

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Nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms, especially those based on swarm intelligence, have attracted much attention in the last ten years. Firefly algorithm appeared in about five years ago, its literature has expanded dramatically with diverse applications. In this paper, we will briefly review the fundamentals of firefly algorithm together with a selection of recent publications. Then, we discuss the optimality associated with balancing exploration and exploitation, which is essential for all metaheuristic algorithms. By comparing with intermittent search strategy, we conclude that metaheuristics such as firefly algorithm are better than the optimal intermittent search strategy. We also analyse algorithms and their implications for higher-dimensional optimization problems.
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paper_title: Web page classification using firefly optimization

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Increase in the amount of information on the Web has caused the need for accurate automated classifiers for Web pages to maintain Web directories and to increase search engines' performance. As every (HTML/XML) tag and every term on each Web page can be considered as a feature, we need efficient methods to select best features to reduce feature space of the Web page classification problem. In this study, our aim is to apply a recent optimization technique namely the firefly algorithm (FA), to select best features for Web page classification problem. The firefly algorithm (FA) is a metaheuristic algorithm, inspired by the flashing behavior of fireflies. In this study, we use FA to select a subset of features, and to evaluate the fitness of the selected features J48 classifier of the Weka data mining tool is employed. WebKB and Conference datasets were used to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed feature selection system. We observed that when a subset of features are selected by using FA, WebKB and Conference datasets were classified without loss of accuracy, even more, time needed to classify new Web pages reduced sharply as the number of features were decreased.
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Title: Web Content Classification: A Survey

Section 1: INTRODUCTION
Description 1: This section introduces the concept of data mining, its applications, and various tasks associated with data mining.

Section 2: WEB PAGE CLASSIFICATION
Description 2: This section discusses the need for web page classification, different types of classifications, challenges, and methods for classifying web pages.

Section 3: RELATED WORK
Description 3: This section reviews and summarizes existing research and methods proposed in the literature for web page classification and related topics.

Section 4: CONCLUSION
Description 4: This section concludes the paper by summarizing the findings, lessons learned, and future opportunities in the field of web classification.

Section 5: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Description 5: This section acknowledges the contributions and support from individuals and references used in the creation of the survey paper.