Web Data Mining (for Business Intelligence)

Bamshad Mobasher teaches a nice Web Mining course entitled "Web Data Mining (for Business Intelligence)" at DePaul University in Illinois. Currently, it is one of the few courses dedicated solely to this topic. I expect, as time goes, the number of courses on this topic will grow dramatically.

Web Content Mining: Bing Liu

Bing Liu from the University of Chicago is very interested in Web Content Mining. He compiled of list of references regarding the topic. In addition, he gave a tutorial on Web content mining in Chiba, Japan in May, 2005.

Link to Tingshao Zhu's Web Mining Research

Stages of Knowledge Discovery in Websites

                                          |------------------
                     |--------------------| 3. PERSONALIZATION
|---------------------| 2. Advanced Web Mining
| 1. Clickstream Analysis

Web Mining Research Links by Tingshao Zhu

Website Log Analyzers

AWStats | Comparison to the below Log analyzers
Analog
Webalizer

Web Log Analysis Tools
There are several free log analysis tools. AWStats seems to be the most popular open source tool, however, I'm not sure if it is as nice as some of the commercial products such as Omniture's SiteCatalyst.

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.)

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

Web Mining Links

Web Mining
http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~ajoshi/web-mine/
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/pebronia/text-mining/
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/theo-3/www/
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~tszhu/webmining.htm
http://filebox.vt.edu/users/wfan/text_mining.html
http://www.kdnuggets.com/
http://www.kddresearch.org/
CMU World Wide Knowledge Base (Web->KB) project

Web Mining Software
http://www.kdnuggets.com/software/web.html
http://www-ai.cs.uni-dortmund.de/SOFTWARE/YALE/download.html