Research of Semantic Web Mining

This paper gives an overview of the main ideas and the research progress of Semantic Web Mining. Seman- tic Web Mining utilizes the semantic data extracted from the traditional Web or uses the semantic structure of the Se- mantic Web directly to help Web Mining. It combines two fast-developing research areas Semantic Web and Web Mining. This idea is to improve, on the one hand, the results of Web Mining by exploiting the new semantic structures in the Web; and to make use of Web Mining, on the other hand, for building up the Semantic Web. In this paper, how to extract semantics from the Web is introduced firstly. Then exploiting Semantics for Web Mining an mining the Semantic Web directly is discussed.