Cengage Learning Machine Learning Principles and Techniques (Chapman & Hall Computing)

This book collates the findings of recent research and presents them for both students and computer professionals. The authors aims to convey the excitement of working in this area at the frontier of computer science. They also show how the techniques described can lead to practical results. The book is a guide for those setting out to write or use a computer system which, in some sense, learns to improve its performance. College and university students should also find it a useful survey of an active research field, whose results are beginning to have practical applications. This book should be of interest to undergraduate students of computer science, linguistics, philosophy and psychology; and computer professionals in industry who are considering applications for inductive learning techniques.