Learning To Classify Web Sites

• The authoritative (but expensive) reference on Machine Learning:
  Machine Learning, Tom M. Mitchell, McGraw Hill Publishers, 1997.

Some applications:

• A Software Agent That Learns To Rate WWW Pages:
  Syskill & Webert: Identifying Interesting Web Sites, Michael Pazzani, Jack Muramatsu and Daniel Billsus, 1995.
• Learning Algorithms And Lessons Learned From Experimenting With An Agent:
  WebWatcher: A Tour Guide For The World Wide Web, T. Joachims, D. Freitag and T. Mitchell, Proceedings of IJCAI97, August 1997.