Applications
Applications for machine learning include:
- Machine perception
- Computer vision
- Natural language processing
- Syntactic pattern recognition
- Search engines
- Medical diagnosis
- Bioinformatics
- Brain-machine interfaces
- Cheminformatics
- Detecting credit card fraud
- Stock market analysis
- Classifying DNA sequences
- Sequence mining
- Speech and handwriting recognition
- Object recognition in Computer vision
- Game playing
- Software engineering
- Adaptive websites
- Robot locomotion
- Computational finance
- Structural health monitoring.
- Sentiment Analysis (or Opinion Mining).
- Affective computing
- Information Retrieval
- Recommender systems
In 2006, the on-line movie company Netflix held the first "Netflix Prize" competition to find a program to better predict user preferences and beat its existing Netflix movie recommendation system by at least 10%. The AT&T Research Team BellKor beat out several other teams with their machine learning program "Pragmatic Chaos". After winning several minor prizes, it won the grand prize competition in 2009 for $1 million.
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