Handbook of research on Web log analysis [electronic resource] / Bernard J. Jansen, Amanda Spink, Isak Taksa [editors].
Publication details: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2009.Description: electronic texts (xxiv, 603 p. : ill.) : digital filesISBN:- 9781599049755 (ebook)
- World Wide Web -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
- Web usage mining -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
- 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
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- TK5105.888 .H3636 2009e
- Also available in print.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 538-592) and index.
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.
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"This book reflects on the multifaceted themes of Web use and presents various approaches to log analysis"--Provided by publisher.
Also available in print.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.