[Sigwac] ACM SIGKDD Inaugural Webinar: Web Content Mining

[Bill Fletcher]

ACM SIGKDD Inaugural Webinar: Web Content Mining
Next Weds, 18.00 CET

Touches on several topics of interest to us...

Regards,
Bill Fletcher


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The Association of Computing Machinery SIGKDD is pleased to announce The
First SIGKDD Webcast:

Web Content Mining
Wed, Nov 29, 2006
9 am PT / 12:00 pm ET / 17:00 GMT (45 minutes long)
(http://kdd.webex.com)

Presented by Bing Liu, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at 
Chicago (UIC)

Abstract

Web content mining aims to extract/mine useful information or knowledge 
from Web page contents. Apart from traditional tasks of Web page 
clustering and classification, there are many other Web content mining 
tasks, e.g., data/information extraction, information integration, 
mining opinions from the user-generated content, mining the Web to build 
concept hierarchies, Web page pre-processing and cleaning, etc.

In this talk, I will introduce these tasks and some of their basic 
algorithms. I will also try to put these tasks into a unified framework 
and present some fundamental challenges. The webcast will be useful to 
not only to students and researchers, but also to practitioners as many 
of these tasks and techniques have immediate real-life applications.


ACM SIGKDD (www.kdd.org) is pleased to sponsor this webcast as part of 
its efforts to improve data mining education and share the outstanding 
expertise of many data mining researchers with the broader audience. 
This first webcast is open to all, but the number of seats is limited!

Register now at (http://kdd.webex.com)