Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-2007
Publication Source
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST)
Abstract
We present an approach to enhancing information access through Web structure mining in contrast to traditional approaches involving usage mining. Specifically, we mine the hardwired hierarchical hyperlink structure of Web sites to identify patterns of term-term co-occurrences we call Web functional dependencies (FDs). Intuitively, a Web FD ‘x y’ declares that all paths through a site involving a hyperlink labeled x also contain a hyperlink labeled y. The complete set of FDs satisfied by a site help characterize (flexible and expressive) interaction paradigms supported by a site, where a paradigm is the set of explorable sequences therein. We describe algorithms for mining FDs and results from mining several hierarchical Web sites and present several interface designs that can exploit such FDs to provide compelling user experiences.
Inclusive pages
1805-1819
ISBN/ISSN
1532-2882
Document Version
Postprint
Copyright
Copyright © 2007, John Wiley & Sons
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Volume
58
Peer Reviewed
yes
Issue
12
eCommons Citation
Perugini, Saverio and Ramakrishnan, Naren, "Mining Web-Functional Dependencies for Flexible Information Access" (2007). Computer Science Faculty Publications. 25.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/cps_fac_pub/25
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Comments
Author's accepted version included in repository in compliance with publisher policies on self-archiving; permission documentation is on file. The version of record is available online from the publisher.