Towards Semantic Web Mining

Bettina Berendt

Institute of Information Systems, Humboldt University Berlin
Spandauer Str. 1, D--10178 Berlin,
Germany
http://www.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/~berendt
berendt@wiwi.hu-berlin.de

Andreas Hotho, Gerd Stumme

Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods AIFB,
University of Karlsruhe,
D--76128 Karlsruhe,
Germany
http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS
(hotho, stumme)@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de

Abstract

Semantic Web Mining aims at combining the two fast-deve\-loping research areas Semantic Web and Web Mining. The idea is to improve, on the one hand, the results of Web Mining by exploiting the new semantic structures in the Web; and to make use of Web Mining, on the other hand, for building up the Semantic Web. This paper gives an overview of where the two areas meet today, and sketches ways of how a closer integration could be profitable.

Research Paper at International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2002, June 9-12th, 2002 Sardinia, Italia