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Title Handbook of research on Web log analysis / Bernard J. Jansen, Amanda Spink, Isak Taksa [editors]
Published Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), 2009
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 603 pages) : illustrations
Contents 1. Research and Methodological Foundations of Transaction Log Analysis
Section 1. Web Log Analysis: Perspectives, Issues, and Directions -- 2. Historic Perspective of Log Analysis -- 3. Surveys as a Complementary Method for Web Log Analysis -- 4. Watching the Web: An Ontological and Epistemological Critique of Web-Traffic Measurement -- 5. Privacy Concerns for Web Logging Data
Section 2. Methodology and Metrics -- 6. The Methodology of Search Log Analysis -- 7. Uses, Limitations, and Trends in Web Analytics -- 8. A Review of Methodologies for Analyzing Websites -- 9. The Unit of Analysis and the Validity of Web Log Data -- 10. Recommendations for Reporting Web Usage Studies
Section 3. Behavior Analysis -- 11. From Analysis to Estimation of User Behavior -- 12. An Integrated Approach to Interaction Design and Log Analysis -- 13. Tips for Tracking Web Information Seeking Behavior -- 14. Identifying Users Stereotypes for Dynamic Web Pages Customization -- 15. Finding Meaning in Online, Very-Large Scale Conversations
Section 4. Query Log Analysis -- 16. Machine Learning Approach to Search Query Classification -- 17. Topic Analysis and Identification of Queries -- 18. Query Log Analysis in Biomedicine -- 19. Processing and Analysis of Search Query Logs in Chinese -- 20. Query Log Analysis for Adaptive Dialogue-Driven Search
Section 5. Contextual and Specialized Analysis -- 21. Using Action-Object Pairs as a Conceptual Framework for Transaction Log Analysis -- 22. Analysis and Evaluation of the Connector Website -- 23. Information Extraction from Blogs -- 24. Nethnography: A Naturalistic Approach Towards Online Interaction -- 25. Web Log Analysis: Diversity of Research Methodologies -- Glossary -- Compilation of References -- About the Contributors -- Index
Summary "This book reflects on the multifaceted themes of Web use and presents various approaches to log analysis"--Provided by publisher
Analysis Adaptive dialogue-driven search
Connector Web site
Dynamic Web pages customization
Interaction design
Machine learning approach
Query log analysis
Search log analysis
Search query classification
Search query logs
Transaction log analysis
Very-scale conversation
Web analytics
Web information seeking behavior
Web log analysis
Web log privacy
Web logging data
Web sites
Web usage studies
Web-traffic measurement
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 538-592) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject World Wide Web -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Web usage mining -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Web usage mining.
World Wide Web.
Genre/Form manuals (instructional materials)
handbooks.
Handbooks and manuals.
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
Form Electronic book
Author Jansen, Bernard J.
Spink, Amanda.
Taksai, Isak, 1948-
IGI Global.
ISBN 9781599049755
1599049759
9781605669755
160566975X