Web Mining, Spring 2012
Smith 217, 3:30-4:45pm Tuesday & Thursday
| Instructor: | Xintao Wu |
| Office: | Wood 333E, (704) 687-8586 |
| Email: | xwu at uncc.edu |
| URL: | http://www.sis.uncc.edu/~xwu |
| Prerequisite: | ITCS 3160, or full graduate standing |
| Office Hours: | 1:30-3pm, Tuesday |
Course Material:
Bing Liu. Web Data Mining(2nd) Springer, 2011, ISBN: 978-3-642-19459-7. online textbook information is here
Teaching Assistant (Grader)
Leting Wu, Woodward 330A, 1-3pm Monday & Wedn, Email: lwu8 at uncc.edu,
Grading
Term Project 30% Midterm 30% Final Exam 40%
Course Description
Topics include measuring and modeling the Web; crawling, Web search and information retrieval; unsupervised learning, supervised learning, semi-supervised learning in Web context; social network analysis and hyperlink analysis; text parsing and knowledge representation.
Topic Outline
Week |
Topics
Covered |
1 |
Introduction
to Web mining |
2 |
Association
rules and sequential patterns |
3 |
Supervised
learning |
4 |
Unsupervising
learning and semi-supervising learning |
5 |
Information
retrieval and web search |
6 |
Link
analysis |
7 |
Midterm |
8 |
Web
crawling |
9 |
Information
integration |
10 |
Opinion
mining |
11 |
Web
usage mining |
12 |
Student
project presentations |
13 |
Social
network analysis |
14 |
Final |
Useful links