Question

According to Tom Mitchel (1998), a computer program is said to learn from experience E with respect to some task T and some performance measure P, if its performance on T, as measured by P, improves with experience E. Identify T, P, and E for the following problems:

i. A program that will tell which tweets will get retweets. (5 marks)
ii. A program that will predict the traffic pattern at a busy intersection. (5 marks)

Answer 1

1) T = predicting the tweets that will be retweeted

      P = prediction of number of retweets of a tweet

      E = data of previous tweets that were retweeted

2) T = predicting the traffic pattern at a busy transaction

      P = better future predictions of traffic jams, traffic density etc.

      E = data from past traffic patterns