Data Mining in the news...

Uncle Sam is Watching You
This article talks about various ways in which the government uses data mining.

Data-Mining
research ($600,000 funded by Carnegie Mellon) that will that will be
used to create software for "for discovering, visualizing and
exploring significant patterns across large collections of full-text
humanities resources in digital libraries and collections." The
project is titled: "Web-based Text-Mining and Visualization for
Humanities Digital Libraries."

Oracle(R) Data Mining Recognized as a Leader by Independent ...

Latest Version of SPSS Data Mining Workbench Enhances Integration ...

Personalized Web

Philip Chan
The main goal of Philip's research is to "develop techniques for
adaptive and personalized information searching and navigation
guidance on the web."

Related Work

Implicit User Profiling for On Demand Relevance

International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
http://iuiconf.org/overview.html

Web Mining (Relationships)

An Exploration of Entity Models, Collective Classification
and Relation Description (PDF)
Interesting research which suggests possibilites of creating question
and answering systems.

http://www.ceas.cc/papers-2004/176.pdf
Great paper about extracting social networks and contact information from only a user's email inbox.

Text & Web Mining

http://filebox.vt.edu/users/wfan/text_mining.html
http://poorva.com/aie/?Google_WebMining
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cooley97web.html
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~mobasher/webminer/survey/survey.html

Data Mining Glossary
http://www.togaware.com/datamining/survivor/Glossary.html (Useful glossary of data mining concepts and vocabulary.)

Andrew McCallum

This guy has some interesting research:
http://www.cs.umass.edu/~mccallum/

Bamshad Mobasher

He has done some interesting research regarding web mining and user personalization:
http://maya.cs.depaul.edu/~mobasher/index.html
http://maya.cs.depaul.edu/~mobasher/cgi-bin/view-pubs.pl?CID=WCM

ID3 - Machine Learning

I've been studying and coding up the ID3 classification algorithm.
When I get a free moment I'll be reading Text and Web Mining papers.