Web intelligence is the area of scientific research and development that explores the roles and makes use of
artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech re ...
and
information technology
Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to create, process, store, retrieve, and exchange all kinds of data . and information. IT forms part of information and communications technology (ICT). An information technology system (I ...
for new products, services and frameworks that are empowered by the
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web (WWW), commonly known as the Web, is an information system enabling documents and other web resources to be accessed over the Internet.
Documents and downloadable media are made available to the network through web se ...
.
The term was coined in a paper written by Ning Zhong, Jiming Liu Yao and Y.Y. Ohsuga in the Computer Software and Applications Conference in 2000.
Research
The research about the web intelligence covers many fields – including
data mining (in particular
web mining),
information retrieval
Information retrieval (IR) in computing and information science is the process of obtaining information system resources that are relevant to an information need from a collection of those resources. Searches can be based on full-text or other co ...
,
pattern recognition
Pattern recognition is the automated recognition of patterns and regularities in data. It has applications in statistical data analysis, signal processing, image analysis, information retrieval, bioinformatics, data compression, computer graphi ...
,
predictive analytics
Predictive analytics encompasses a variety of statistical techniques from data mining, predictive modeling, and machine learning that analyze current and historical facts to make predictions about future or otherwise unknown events.
In business ...
, the
semantic web, web
data warehousing
In computing, a data warehouse (DW or DWH), also known as an enterprise data warehouse (EDW), is a system used for reporting and data analysis and is considered a core component of business intelligence. DWs are central repositories of integra ...
– typically with a focus on web personalization and adaptive websites.
References
External links
Web Intelligence Journal PageWeb Intelligence Consortium an international, non-profit organization dedicated to advancing worldwide scientific research and industrial development in the field of Web Intelligence
Web intelligence Research Group at University of Chile
Further reading
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* {{cite book, last1=Chbeir, first1=Richard, last2=Badr, first2=Youakim, last3=Abraham, first3=Ajith, last4=Hassanien, first4=Aboul-Ella, title=Emergent Web Intelligence: Advanced Information Retrieval (Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing), date=April 2010, isbn=978-1-84996-073-1, url=http://deca.cuc.edu.cn/Community/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Components.PostAttachments/00.00.00.11.45/Emergent-Web-Intelligence-Advanced-Information-Retrieval.pdf, access-date=2015-06-13, archive-date=2012-11-11, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111221101/http://deca.cuc.edu.cn/Community/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Components.PostAttachments/00.00.00.11.45/Emergent-Web-Intelligence-Advanced-Information-Retrieval.pdf, url-status=dead
Artificial intelligence
Crowdsourcing
Big data
Data mining
Collective intelligence
Social information processing