Web Mining Features and Functions

• Content mining extracts patterns from online information, such as HTML files, images, or e-mails


• Web structure mining focuses on using the analysis of the link structure of the web to identify preferable documents


• Web usage mining for user interactions whenever requests for resources are received


• Concise notation based on familiar ANSI standard SQL, including joins, grouping, sorting, and set operations


• Full featured IDE includes syntax highlighting, graphical execution, real time result delivery, and network monitoring


• Extraction techniques for unstructured, semi-structured, and structured data


• Reads and writes common file formats such as HTML, XML, PDF, DOC, CSV, TSV, images, databases, etc.


• Integration options include Java, .NET, ActiveX, C++, and allowing queries to become Web services


• Facilities for error trapping and reporting


• XML, including extraction of data using XPath and transformation of input or output using XSLT


• Transparent support for Web functionality such as scripts, forms, cookies, user agents, frames, tables, authentication, etc.


• Development environment for organizations to create their own Web mining solutions


• Parallel deployment engine extracts information at high speed