Hi everyone,
I searched already too much on Google that I hope that I will get here some good answer..
I am reading an article, this one: http://www2013.wwwconference.org/proceedings/p561.pdf

And the thing that bothers me the most is that I don't know still the difference between syntactic and semantic mining.. I would like to understand what is the point.. If someone can explain the difference with easy words I would really appreciate it..

Thx to anyone..

By looking at it very quickly, it seems that what they call syntatic mining is just to analyse the sequences of clicks on a website without using any additional contextual information to understand why the click on the website happened.

Then, for semantic mining, they maps the words from queries to a knowledge base such as DBPedia or FreeBase which are large graphs connecting words between each other. So by using this graph linking different words, they do a more detailed analysis of the meaning of the words, and this give more information about the context of the queries. So they call this a semantic analysis. This is similar to the idea of the semantic web, where "semantic" is because you use some kind of ontologies, or here a graph like freebase as an additional source of knowledge.

Best,

Philippe



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/27/2014 02:44PM by webmasterphilfv.

Thank you for this