Summary of Web Data Mining

Web data mining derived from the data mining has been a hot and important topic in data analysis.Unlike traditional data,web data is characterized as complicated structure,various forms and rich contents.Its users' requirements can be diverse.This makes web data mining much more challenging.For the sake of giving some reference materials about web data mining,we classify web data mining roughly into three categories: content mining,usage mining and structure mining.After outlining them respectively,we analyze some hotspots in the research area according to its status of applications.