BLG 614E WEB MINING

BLG 614E WEB MINING

2008-2009 SPRING TERM

Contact Information:

CRN	23611
Instructor:	Asst. Prof. Dr. Şule Gündüz Öğüdücü
Office:	EEB 3305
e-mail:	sgunduz at itu.edu.tr
Class Room:
Class Hours:	Thursday 09:30-12:30

Textbook:

Pierre Baldi, Paolo Frasconi, Padhraic Smyth

Modeling the Internet and the Web

Probabilistic Methods and Algorithms

Wiley, 2003, ISBN: 0-470-84906-1

Other References:

Mining the Web - Discovering Knowledge from Hypertext Data, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Soumen Chakrabarti, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2003, ISBN 1-55860-754-4.
Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, Jiawei Han and Micheline Kamber, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2006. ISBN 1-55860-901-6.

Prerequisites:

This is an advanced course intended for graduate students with some background in databases, data mining and machine learning.

Tentative list of topics (will be further elaborated)

1. Introduction

2. Internet and the Web Graphs

3. Information Retrieval and Web Search

4. Analyzing the Web Structure

5. Crawling the Web

6. Modeling and Understanding Human Behavior

7. Clustering approaches for Web Mining

8. Classification approaches for Web Mining

Evaluation (tentative plan)

1. Attendance: 5%

2. Weekly presentations: 10%

2. Project: 40%

3. Final Exam: 45%