CS 497 Assignment -- Models for Prediction
Gordon V. Cormack
Use a data compression model to do perform one of the following tasks:
- classification (e.g. spam filtering, authorship detection, classification by language)
- game playing (e.g. rock-paper-scissors, liar's dice, ...)
- some other statistical prediction task
Design and execute an experiment that measures the effectiveness
of your approach. In doing so you will have to acquire some
data (e.g. some email from your inbox or the result of playing
the game) and measure the result. Make sure that the data
used to measure the result plays no role in the design or
training of our method.
Your approach need not be grandiose. It is perfectly acceptable,
for example, to collect a few dozen messages, split them into
training and test sets, and use the method described in class.
You may use any compression model you like, including DMC,
PPM, or any popular compression software.
You should write one or two pages describing your method,
the experiment you designed including the source of the
data, and measured results. Your write-up should include
one paragraph of observations and discussion.