Web mining aims to discover useful information and knowledge from Web hyperlinks, page contents, and usage data. Although Web mining uses many conventional data mining techniques, it is not purely an application of traditional data mining due to the semi-structured and unstructured nature of the Web data. The field has also developed many of its own algorithms and techniques. Liu has written a comprehensive text on Web mining, which consists of two parts. The first part covers the data mining and machine learning foundations, where all the essential concepts and algorithms of data mining and machine learning are presented. The second part covers the key topics of Web mining, where Web crawling, search, social network analysis, structured data extraction, information integration, opinion mining and sentiment analysis, Web usage mining, query log mining, computational advertising, and recommender systems are all treated both in breadth and in depth. His book thus brings all the related concepts and algorithms together to form an authoritative and coherent text. The book offers a rich blend of theory and practice. It is suitable for students, researchers and practitioners interested in Web mining and data mining both as a learning text and as a reference book. Professors can readily use it for classes on data mining, Web mining, and text mining. Additional teaching materials such as lecture slides, datasets, and implemented algorithms are available online.

Bing Liu 刘兵，伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校(UIC)教授，他在爱丁堡大学获得人工智能博士学位。刘兵教授是Web挖掘研究领域的国际知名专家，在Web内容挖掘、互联网观点挖掘、数据挖掘等领域有非常高的造诣，他先后在国际著名学术期刊与重要国际学术会议(如KDD、WWW、AAAI、SIGIR、ICML、TKDE等)上发布关于数据挖掘、Web挖掘和文本挖掘论文一百多篇。刘兵教授担任过多个国际期刊的编辑，也是多个国际学术会议(如WWW、KDD与AAAI等)的程序委员会委员。更多的信息，可访问他的个人主页http://www.cs.uic.edu/~liub