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Finding Common Key Words

Let's see how WebMiner finds common key words. The algorithm used by WebMiner takes multiple steps. In each step it counts the number of occurrences of a set of words. In step i it counts sets of size i. We say that a word set is frequent if appears in at least min_per percent of the web pages. The value of min_per is an input to the algorithm. For example, if min_per = 0.5 (50%), then any set of words that occurs in at least 3 (50% of 6) pages is considered frequent.

Lets go back to our example and look at the different steps, assuming min_per = 0.5


 

Mohammed Zaki
10/30/1998