Web Mining to Create a Domain Specific Web Portal Database

Abstract

The dynamic nature of the World Wide Web is causing an evolution of both information access and format. The use of a Web portal to access information about a domain relieves the searcher of the responsibility to know about, access and retrieve domain documents. In a properly constructed portal, a Web mining process has already sifted through pages found on the Web to select domain facts. This Web-generated knowledge is added to domain expert knowledge in an organized database. This chapter details the design and construction of a domain specific Web portal through the combination of domain expertise and Web-based domain facts.