Welcome to the Web Mining and Its Advanced Topics course, ITEC-6205 for Winter term 2011. Materials, instructions, and notices for the course will accumulate here over the semester.

The major objectives of this course are to present Web mining and its advanced topics from a practical point of view and for the graduate students to obtain a solid grasp of how techniques in Web mining technology can be applied to solve problems in real-world applications. This course is an advanced course that is offered to graduate students, researchers and professionals in the IT field. It will mainly focus on research projects, paper review and presenation of research papers. In particular, this course will be taught in a research oriented style. Grading is based on a large research project, a final examination, research papers, assignments and presentations. There is a big research component in this course. The assignments generally involve implementing and experimenting with an idea/method on real text data. The final course project is to give the students hands-on experience on developing some novel Web information management tools.