Web Document Modeling
The Adaptive Web, (2007)Abstract
A very common issue of adaptive Web-Based systems is the modeling of documents. Such documents represent domain-specific information
for a number of purposes. Application areas such as Information Search, Focused Crawling and Content Adaptation (among manyothers) benefit from several techniques and approaches to model documents effectively. For example, a document usually needspreliminary processing in order to obtain the relevant information in an effective and useful format, so as to be automaticallyprocessed by the system. The objective of this chapter is to support other chapters, providing a basic overview of the mostcommon and useful techniques and approaches related with document modeling. This chapter describes high-level techniques tomodel Web documents, such as the Vector Space Model and a number of AI approaches, such as Semantic Networks, Neural Networksand Bayesian Networks. This chapter is not meant to act as a substitute of more comprehensive discussions about the topicspresented. Rather, it provides a brief and informal introduction to the main concepts of document modeling, also focusingon the systems that are presented in the rest of the book as concrete examples of the related concepts.
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