Mining the Web

Discovering Knowledge from Hypertext Data

Soumen Chakrabarti

Morgan-Kaufmann Publishers
352 pages, cloth/hard-bound
Original ISBN 1-55860-754-4
Indian reprint ISBN 81-8147-886-X
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News

There is now an Indian edition in paperback from Elsevier India, with a reprint ISBN 81-8147-886-X. Please contact if you have any questions.
Honorable mention by the Association of American Publishers.
Review on Search Engine Watch (local copy). This page had 441 and 290 hits on the first two days after the review was posted. Now it's back to normal. Clearly, search engine optimization matters!
Cited from courses elsewhere: Princeton University, UMich, CMU, NYU, Stanford 2003, Stanford 2005, UT Austin, Indiana University, Lehigh, UNC, SUNY Buffalo, SDSU, U. Magdeburg, U. Muenchen, TU-Darmstadt, U. Freiburg. (If you wish to use this book for a course you are offering, I'd appreciate a course URL from you to build up a social network of such courses.)

...you must understand how learned books are written in case you ever want to write a learned book. First thing you do is get a thousand references, chosen at random. You then put them into the book, in the order you reach them...And stick two or three lines of your own between each of them to act as mortar...And you're all set. ---Isaac Asimov.

Teaching material

New! Preview slides from the second edition. To get access for academic purposes, please send email from an academic email domain with the URL of your home page in the same domain.
Errata and comments.
Slides for the first edition, prepared in most part by Ganesh Ramakrishnan: Introduction, Crawling, Indexing and search, Unsupervised learning or clustering, Supervised learning or classification, Semi-supervised learning, Social network analysis and resource discovery.
Instructors can access a password protected area by sending an email to Stephen Merken () to get a password. This area will contain class notes and past exams with some solutions.
Links to my graduate elective offerings based at least in part on this book: 2008, 2007, 2005, 2003, 2002, 2001.

Supplementary references

Additional reading list. Some of it will be assimilated into the second edition.
Tutorials and short courses overlapping with the contents of this book: WWW 2007, Banff Winter School 2006, WWW 2005 (Bing Liu), ADFOCS 2004, VLDB 2002, SIGKDD 2000 and SIGMOD 1999.
Some open-source Web-mining software related to the book.

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  author =	 {Soumen Chakrabarti},
  title = 	 {Mining the {Web}: Discovering Knowledge from Hypertext Data},
  publisher = 	 {Morgan-Kauffman},
  year = 	 2002,
  isbn = {ISBN 1-55860-754-4},
  url = {http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~soumen/mining-the-web/}
}

Mining the Web

Discovering Knowledge from Hypertext Data

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