Machine Learning Terminology Explained: Top 8 Must-Know Concepts

Getting started with AI? Perhaps you've already got your feet wet in the world of Machine Learning, but still looking to expand your knowledge and cover the subjects you've heard of but didn't quite have time to cover? This Machine Learning Glossary aims to briefly introduce the most important Machine Learning terms - both for the commercially and technically interested. It's not by any means exhaustive, but a good, light read prep before a meeting with an AI director or vendor - or a quick revisit before a job interview! Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a common notion for a variety of machine learning methods that make it possible for the computer to understand and perform operations using human (i.e. Text Classification and Ranking The goal of this task is to predict a class (label) of a document, or rank documents within in a list based on their relevance.