Introduction to Information Retrieval is the first textbook with a coherent treatment of classical and web information retrieval, including web search and the related areas of text classification and text clustering. Written from a computer sci

Alpaydin E. Introduction to machine learning (MIT Press, 2010)

introduction to machine learning

Even since the introduction of backpropagation in 1986, neural networks have gained considerable attention from researchers for more than two decades now. A variety of neural network models have been designed and applied successfully to solve