Web Mining
Web mining is a specialized application of data mining. Web mining is a technique to process information available on the web and search for useful data. Web mining enables us to discover web pages, text documents, multimedia filed, images, and other types of resources from the web. Pattern extraction is a web mining process to monitor the original or uploaded web pages, extract information from them, and generate matches of a specific pattern with necessary information specified by a user. Web mining is widely used in several fields. The various fields where web mining is applied are ECommerce, Information filtering, Fraud detection, Plagiarism detection, Education, and research.