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With the dramatically quick and explosive growth of information available over the Internet, World Wide Web has become a powerful platform to store, disseminate and retrieve information as well as mine useful knowledge. Due to the huge, diverse, dynamic and unstructured nature in Web data, Web data research has encountered a lot of challenges, such as heterogeneous structure, distributed residence and scalability issues etc. As a result, Web users are always drowning in an “ocean” of information and facing the problem of information overload when interacting with the Web, for example.
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Xu, G., Zhang, Y., Li, L. (2011). Introduction. In: Web Mining and Social Networking. Web Information Systems Engineering and Internet Technologies Book Series, vol 6. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7735-9_1
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