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Machine Learning in Java - Second Edition

By : AshishSingh Bhatia, Bostjan Kaluza
Book Image

Machine Learning in Java - Second Edition

By: AshishSingh Bhatia, Bostjan Kaluza

Overview of this book

As the amount of data in the world continues to grow at an almost incomprehensible rate, being able to understand and process data is becoming a key differentiator for competitive organizations. Machine learning applications are everywhere, from self-driving cars, spam detection, document search, and trading strategies, to speech recognition. This makes machine learning well-suited to the present-day era of big data and Data Science. The main challenge is how to transform data into actionable knowledge. Machine Learning in Java will provide you with the techniques and tools you need. You will start by learning how to apply machine learning methods to a variety of common tasks including classification, prediction, forecasting, market basket analysis, and clustering. The code in this book works for JDK 8 and above, the code is tested on JDK 11. Moving on, you will discover how to detect anomalies and fraud, and ways to perform activity recognition, image recognition, and text analysis. By the end of the book, you will have explored related web resources and technologies that will help you take your learning to the next level. By applying the most effective machine learning methods to real-world problems, you will gain hands-on experience that will transform the way you think about data.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed how text mining is different than traditional attribute-based learning, requiring a lot of pre-processing steps to transform written natural language into feature vectors. Further, we discussed how to leverage Mallet, a Java-based library for NLP by applying it to two real-life problems. First, we modeled topics in a news corpus using the LDA model to build a model that is able to assign a topic to new document. We also discussed how to build a Naive Bayesian spam-filtering classifier using the BoW representation.

This chapter concludes the technical demonstrations of how to apply various libraries to solve machine-learning tasks. As we weren't able to cover more interesting applications and give further details at many points, the next chapter gives some further pointers on how to continue learning and dive deeper into particular topics...