A Short Survey of Web Data Mining
Jiri Just · 2013
Usage of Web Services and Web-based application are rapidly growing at exponential rate resulting in a huge amount of data which can be used for mining. The web mining requires different methods used than in traditional data mining. It is due to the nature of the data used. The data on the web are in different form such as web serve logs, news pages and hyperlinks. Based on the type of the data web mining can be categorized into: Web structure mining, Web content mining and Web usage mining. In this paper, we give a short description of each web mining category. Furthermore, we describe subcategories with examples of the methods used to mine each subcategory. Reader will find preliminary focus of my future research in web usage mining section.