WEB MINING -An Application of Data Mining - Paper Presentation And PPT

Two important and active areas of current research are data mining and world wide web.A natural combination of the two areas sometimes referred to as web mining.It is application of data mining techniques to the World Wide Web.Web mining is the extraction of interesting and potentially useful patterns and implicit information from artifacts or activity related to the World Wide Web.The term Web mining has been used in two distinct ways.The First which is referred to as Web content Mining,describes the process of information or resource discovery from millions of sources across the World Wide Web.The second ,which we call Web usage mining,is the process of mining for user browsing and access patterns on one or more web localities.We define Web mining in particular ,present an overview of the various research issues , techniques  and development efforts in web content mining and web usage mining,We conclude this paper by listing issues that need the attention of research community.