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A Markovian Approach for Web User Profiling and Clustering
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A Markovian Approach for Web User Profiling and Clustering
Younes Hafri5, 6 , Chabane Djeraba6 , Peter Stanchev7 and Bruno Bachimont5 
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Institut National de l’Audiovisuel, 4 avenue de l’Europe, 94366 Bry-sur-Marne Cedex, France |
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Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Nantes, 2 rue de la Houssiniere, 43322 Nantes Cedex, France |
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Kettering University, Flint, MI 48504, USA |
Abstract
The objective of this paper is to propose an approach that extracts automatically web user profiling based on user navigation
paths. Web user profiling consists of the best representative behaviors, represented by Markov models (MM). To achieve this
objective, our approach is articulated around three notions: (1) Applying probabilistic exploration using Markov models. (2)
Avoiding the problem of Markov model high-dimensionality and sparsity by clustering web documents, based on their content,
before applying the Markov analysis. (3) Clustering Markov models, and extraction of their gravity centers. On the basis of
these three notions, the approach makes possible the prediction of future states to be visited in k steps and navigation sessions
monitoring, based on both content and traversed paths. The original application of the approach concerns the exploitation
of multimedia archives in the perspective of the Copyright Deposit that preserves French’s WWW documents. The approach may
be the exploitation tool for any web site.
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