
Chapter 2
Statistical Machine Learning
for HCI
Samy Bengio
Google, Mountain View, USA
2.1. Introduction 7
2.2. Introduction to Statistical Learning 8
2.2.1. Types of Problem 8
2.2.2. Function Space 9
2.2.3. Loss Functions 10
2.2.4. Expected Risk and Empirical Risk 10
2.2.5. Statistical Learning Theory 11
2.3. Support Vector Machines for Binary Classification 13
2.4. Hidden Markov Models for Speech Recognition 16
2.4.1. Speech Recognition 17
2.4.2. Markovian Processes 17
2.4.3. Hidden Markov Models 18
2.4.4. Inference and Learning with HMMs 20
2.4.5. HMMs for Speech Recognition 22
2.5. Conclusion 22
References 23
2.1 INTRODUCTION
This chapter introduces the main