Machine Learning

The main aim of the course is to introduce theory and methods from machine learning (ML) as well as practical applications in data mining. Technological developments have contributed to our becoming more dependent on databases for storage and data processing. The number and amount of content in databases is growing rapidly. With this growth, it becomes more difficult to manually find useful information from the large amount of data. We therefore need semi-automatic and automated methods to use, aggregate, analyze and extract such information. Methods and techniques from machine learning, information mining, and artificial intelligence have proven useful for this purpose.