Programming Assignment Explanation

• Fortune Cookie Classifier¹

You will build a binary fortune cookie classifier. This classifier will be used to classify

fortune cookie messages into two classes: messages that predict what will happen in

the future (class 1) and messages that just contain a wise saying (class 0). For example,

"Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line" would be a message in class

0.

"You will get an A in Machine learning class" would be a message in class 1.

Files Provided There are three sets of files. All words in these files are lower case

and punctuation has been removed.

1) The training data:

traindata.txt: This is the training data consisting of fortune cookie messages.

trainlabels.txt: This file contains the class labels for the training data.

2) The testing data:

testdata.txt: This is the testing data consisting of fortune cookie messages.

testlabels.txt: This file contains the class labels for the testing data.