From the course: Natural Language Processing with ML.NET by Microsoft Press

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What is classification?

What is classification?

- So, machine learning is everywhere we see. This doesn't only mean that it is embedded in every applications we use every day. This means that most of the machine learning algorithms are designed to work similarly to how our brain works to solve a problem. Let's make an example. Let's imagine we are about to leave the office for a one week vacation, and we would like to find a smart way to handle the huge amount of unread emails we get at our return. In simple terms, we would like to find a way to understand from the subject of the email, the sender address, and other features if it's worth to read that email, or if it's not worth because it's junk email or spam without having to read the whole body, search for the sender internet, and double check if the sender address is valid or if they already have emailed us in the past. It's not the first time we find ourselves in this situation, so the first thing we can do is looking back to the history of our inbox emails that we already…

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