Machine Learning

Machine learning is a field of artificial intelligence related to Data Mining and Statistics. It involves learning from data. The researcher feeds a set of training examples to a computer program that aims to learn the connection between features of the examples and a specified target concept. The program might be fed information about the financial profiles of a group of credit card customers whose credit history is known, with the aim of learning about cues that predict when a particular customer is likely to default on a loan. Once training is complete, the algorithm would be used to make predictions about whether new and unseen customers are likely to default.

See also

• Artificial neural network
• Artificial intelligence
• Data mining
• Dynamic time warping
• Information retrieval
• Machine learning
• Nearest neighbor (pattern recognition)
• Pattern recognition
• Statistics
• Viterbi algorithm

References

• Richard O. Duda, Peter E. Hart, David G. Stork (2001) Pattern classification (2nd edition), Wiley, New York, ISBN 0471056693.

• Dietrich Paulus and Joachim Hornegger (1998) Applied Pattern Recognition (2nd edition), Vieweg. ISBN 3-528-15558-2

• Sholom Weiss and Casimir Kulikowski (1991) Computer Systems That Learn, Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 1-55860-065-5