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As discussed, Web data involves in a complex structure and heterogeneous nature. The analysis on the Web data needs a broad range of concepts, theories and approaches and a variety of application backgrounds. In order to help readers to better understand the algorithms and techniques introduced in the book, it is necessary to prepare some basic and fundamental background knowledge, which also forms a solid theoretical base for this book. In this chapter, we first present some theoretical backgrounds and review them briefly.
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Xu, G., Zhang, Y., Li, L. (2011). Theoretical Backgrounds. In: Web Mining and Social Networking. Web Information Systems Engineering and Internet Technologies Book Series, vol 6. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7735-9_2
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