AI & Machine Learning Terminology every Beginner should Know

April 29, 2020September 1, 2020 admin 0 Comments

AI & Machine Learning Terminology every Beginner should Know

In the past few decades, the field of computer science have broadened its horizons ten folds due to the introduction of a vast array of technological advances. Out of which the most prominent ones has to be Artificial Intelligence and machine learning. Both are interconnected technologies that have been gaining much popularity among bright data scientists by fulfilling their career aspirations.

The magnificent world of Artificial Intelligence and machine learning consists of various technical terms that I will be adding in an abbreviated format in this blog. The abbreviation glossary is widely used in the data science community and hence will act as a minor dictionary especially for beginners. So, without any further ado, here is the list of AI and machine learning terminology that every beginner should know.

The following tabular format comprises of general terms specific to techniques, processes and various areas of both AI and machine learning fields.

Abbreviations Glossary – A
Abbreviations	What they stand for
1-bit SGD	1-bit Stochastic Gradient Descent
AAAI	Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
AAI	Augmented Artificial Intelligence
AAIA	Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
AAIR	Advances in Artificial Intelligence Research
ACE	Alternating conditional expectation
ADI	Artificial Design Intelligence
ADO	Active X Data Objects
AGI	Artificial General Intelligence
AI	Artificial Intelligence
AI	Artificial Intelligence
AI	Artificial Intelligence
AI/ES	Artificial Intelligence/Expert Systems
AIA	Artificial Intelligence Application
AIAF	Artificial Intelligence Auto Focus
AiAF	Artificial Intelligence Auto Focus
AIAI	Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations
AIBO	Artificial Intelligence Robot
AICI	Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence
AICS	Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science
AIDA	Artificial Intelligence for Document Analysis
AIDA	Artificial Intelligence Data Analyser
AIDA	Artificial Intelligence Digital Assistant
AIDA	Artificial Intelligence Discrimination Architecture
AIDG	Artificial Intelligence in Design Group
AIDR	Artificial Intelligence Disaster Relief
AIDR	Artificial Intelligence for Digital Response
AIE	Artificial Intelligence Exploration
AIED	Artificial Intelligence in Education
AIESP	Artificial Intelligence in Energy Systems and Power
AIFR	Artificial Intelligence for Fundamental Research
AIG	Artificial Intelligence Group
AIGC	Artificial Intelligence in Grid Computing
AIIDE	Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment
AILE	Artificial Intelligence and Legal Education
AIM	Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
AIM	Artificial Intelligence Management
AIM	Artificial Intelligence Marketing
AIML	Artificial Intelligence Markup Language
AIMS	Artificial Intelligence Molecular Screen
AIMSA	Artificial Intelligence Methodology, Systems, Applications
AINN	Artificial Intelligence Neural Network
AIOT	Artificial Intelligence of Things
AIP	Artificial Intelligence Program
AIP	Artificial Intelligence Project
AIPO	Artificial Intelligence Project Office
AIPR	Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition
AIR	Artificial Intelligence Research
AIRG	Artificial Intelligence Research Group
AIRLab	Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory
AIRS	Artificial Intelligence Robot Selection
AIRTC	Artificial Intelligence in Real Time Control
AIRVL	Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Vision Laboratory
AIS	Artificial Intelligence System
AISB	Artificial Intelligence and Simulation Behaviour
AISC	Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Computation
AISIG	Artificial Intelligence Special Interest Group
AISK	Artificial Intelligence Spam Killer
AISP	Artificial Intelligence and Signal Processing
AITA	Artificial Intelligence Teaching Assistant
AITAmI	Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Ambient Intelligence
AIU	Artificial Intelligence Unit
AIVAS	Artificial Intelligence Voice Address System
AIY	Artificial Intelligence for Yourself
Ajax	Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
ALEXA	Amazon LEXicon Assistant
ALI	Artificial Language Intelligence
ALICE	Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity
AMI	Artificial Machine Intelligence
AMLT	Advanced Machine Learning Techniques
AMONI	Artificial Models of Natural Intelligence
AMOUR	Autonomous Modular Optical Underwater Robot
ANN	Artificial Neural Network
ANN	Artificial Neural Network
ANNE	Artificial Neural Network Ensemble
ANT	Another Neat Tool
API	Application Programming Interface
ASG	Abstract Semantic Graph
ASI	Artificial Social Intelligence
ASN.1	Abstract Syntax Notation 1
ASP	Active Server Pages
ASP	Application Service Provider
ASR	Automatic Speech Recognition
AST	Abstract Syntax Tree
ATAI	Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence
AUAI	Association for Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
AWT	Abstract Windowing Toolkit

Abbreviations Glossary – B
Abbreviations	What they stand for
B2B	Business-to-Business
B2C	Business-to-Consumer
BAIF	Biological and Artificial Intelligence Foundation
BAIR	Basic Artificial Intelligence Routine
BAIR	Basic Artificial Intelligence Routine
BBAI	Behavior Based Artificial Intelligence
BESAI	Binding Environmental Sciences and Artificial Intelligence
BFS	Best First Search
BLEU	Bilingual Evaluation Understudy
BPEL	Business Process Execution Language
BPEL4WS	BPEL for Web Services
BPM	Business Process Management
BPMF	Bayesian Probabilistic Matrix Factorization
BPML	Business Process Management Language
BPMN	Business Process Modeling Notation
BPTT	Backpropagation Through Time
BRNN	Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Network
BTVB	Best Truth Value Bound
BVAI	Brain, Vision and Artificial Intelligence

Abbreviations Glossary – C
Abbreviations	What they stand for
CAE	Contractive autoencoder
CAI	Creative Artificial Intelligence
CAI	Cognitive Artificial Intelligence
CAIM	Cognitive Artificial Intelligence Meet up
CAIO	Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer
CAML	Competency Aware Machine Learning
CASE	Computer-aided Software Engineering
CBOW	Continuous-Bag-of-Words
CDF	Common Data Format
CDM	Constructionist Design Methodology
CDV	Cooperative Distributed Vision
CIFS	Common Internet File system
CIM	Common Information Model
CML	Centre for Machine Learning
CML	Cognitive Modeling Language
CMMs	Conditional Markov Models
CMS	Content Management System
CN	Canonical Name
CNN	Convolutional Neural Network
CNN	Convolutional Neural Network
CNN	Convolutional Neural Networks
CODT	Configurable Ontology to Data-model Transformation
COM	Component Object Model
CORBA	Common Object Request Broker Architecture
COTS	Commercial Off-The-Shelf
CPAI	Corner Procedural Artificial Intelligence
CRFs	Conditional Random Fields
CRM	Customer Relationship Management
CS	Computer Science
CSAI	Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence
CSAIL	Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
CSE	Computer Science and Engineering
CSS	Cascading Style Sheets
CSV	Comma Separated Values
CSV	Comma-Separated Values
CTC	Connectionist Temporal Classification
CTC	Connectionist Temporal Classification
CTR	Collaborative Topic Regression
CV	Computer Vision

Abbreviations Glossary – D
Abbreviations	What they stand for
DAI	Distributed Artificial Intelligence
DAIIA	Distributed Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Agents
DAO	Data Access Objects
DAP	Directory Access Protocol
DARPA	Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency
DB	Dynamic Brain
DB	Database
DBA	Database Administrator
DBI	Data Based Insights
DBMS	Database Management System
DCGAN	Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network
DCOM	Distributed Component Object Model
DDE	Dynamic Data Exchange
DDL	Data Definition Language
DE	Differential Evolution
DFNN	Dynamic Fuzzy Neural Networks
DHCP	Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DHTML	Dynamic HTML
DL	Deep Learning
DLL	Dynamic Link Library
DLSS	Deep Learning Super-Sampling
DMAI	Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence
DML	Data Manipulation Language
DNS	Domain Name System
DOAP	Description Of A Project + 1 variant
DOM	Document Object Model
DQM	Deep Query Manager
DRM	Digital Rights Management
DSAIL	Decision Systems and Artificial Intelligence Lab
DSBS	Dual Sensor Brake Support
DSDL	Document Schema Definition Languages
DSM	Dependency Structure Matrix
DSSSL	Document Style Semantics and Specification Language
DTAI	Declarative Languages and Artificial Intelligence
DTD	Document Type Definition

Abbreviations Glossary – E
Abbreviations	What they stand for
EAAI	Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
EAI	Enterprise Application Integration
EAP	Extensible Authentication Protocol
EBCDIC	Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
EBML	Extensible Binary Meta Language
ebXML	e-business XML
EDI	Electronic Data Interchange
EFF	Electronic Frontier Foundation
EISA	Extended Industry Standard Architecture
EJB	Enterprise JavaBean
ELU	Exponential Linear Unit
EM	Expectation-maximization
EMACS	Editor Macros
EOF	End of File
EOL	End of Life + 1 variant
EOM	End of Message
ERP	Enterprise Resource Planning
ESS	Expert Structured System
ETAI	Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
ETL	Extract, Transform, Load
EULA	End User License Agreement

Abbreviations Glossary – F
Abbreviations	What they stand for
F1 Score	Harmonic Precision-Recall Mean
FAIR	Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research
FAIR	Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence Research
FCTA	Fast Clustering and Tracking Algorithm
FDDB	Face Detection Dataset Benchmark
FEA	Federal Enterprise Architecture
FFT	Fast Fourier transform
FiML	Financial Machine Learning
FKP	Facial Key Point
FMI	Field Machine Intelligence
FOL	First-order Logic
FOLDOC	Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
FOSI	Formatted Output Specification Instance
FOSS	Free and Open Source Software
FSF	Free Software Foundation
FSM	Finite State Machine
FST	Finite-state transducer
FTP	File Transfer Protocol

Abbreviations Glossary – G
Abbreviations	What they stand for
GAI	General Artificial intelligence
GAI	General Artificial Intelligence
GAIP	Guided Artificial Intelligence Protocol
GAM	Generalized additive model
GAN	Generative Adversarial Network
GAN	Generative Adversarial Network
GAN	Generative Adversarial Network
GAP	Global Average Pooling
GIF	Graphics Interchange Format
GMM	Gaussian mixture model
GOAP	Goal-Oriented Action Planning
GPL	General Public License
GUI	Graphical User Interface

Abbreviations Glossary – H
Abbreviations	What they stand for
HAIS	Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems
HCI	Human Computer Interaction
HCMI	Human Centered Machine Intelligence
HDF	Hierarchical Data Format
HDP	Hierarchical Dirichlet process
HLMI	Human Level Machine Intelligence
HLMI	High-Level Machine Intelligence
HLMI	Human-Level Machine Intelligence
HMD	Head Mounted Displays
HMMs	Hidden Markov Models
HPC	High-Performance Computing
HPFS	High Performance File System
HTML	HyperText Markup Language
HTTP	HyperText Transfer Protocol
HTTPd	Hypertext Transport Protocol Daemon

Abbreviations Glossary – I
Abbreviations	What they stand for
i.i.d	Independent and Identically Distributed
I/O	Input/Output
IAAI	Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence
IAAI	Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence
IANA	Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
ICANN	Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
ICML	International Colloquium on Machine Learning
ICMP	Internet Control Message Protocol
ICP	Internet Cache Protocol
IDE	Integrated Development Environment
IE	Information extraction
IGMP	Internet Group Management Protocol
IIOP	Internet Inter-Orb Protocol
IIS	Internet Information Services
IM	Instant Messaging
IMAP	Internet Message Access Protocol
IME	Input Method Editor
IMS	Intelligent Maintenance Systems
IP	Intellectual Property
IP	Internet Protocol
IPC	Inter-Process Communication
IPP	Internet Printing Protocol
IPsec	Internet Protocol security
IPX	Internetwork Packet Exchange
IR	Information Retrieval
IRC	Internet Relay Chat
irON	instance record and Object Notation
IS	Information Systems
ISA	Industry Standard Architecture
ISP	Internet Service Provider
IT	Information Technology
ITS	Intelligent Tutoring System
IWD	Intelligent Water Drops Algorithm

Abbreviations Glossary – J
Abbreviations	What they stand for
J2EE	Java 2 Enterprise Edition
J2ME	Java 2 Micro Edition
J2SE	Java 2 Standard Edition
JAIED	Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education
JAIR	Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
JAR	Java ARchive
JAXB	Java XML Binding
JAXP	Java API for XML Processing
JAX-RPC	Java XML for Remote Procedure Calls
JCP	Java Community Process
JDBC	Java Database Connectivity
JDK	Java Development Kit
JDOM	Java Document Object Model
JETAI	Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence
JFC	Java Foundation Classes
JITS	Java Intelligent Tutoring System
JMS	Java Message Service
JMX	Java Management Extensions
JNDI	Java Naming and Directory Interface
JNI	Java Native Interface
JOONE	Java Object Oriented Neural Engine
JRE	Java Runtime Environment
JS	JavaScript
JSF	Java Server Faces
JSON	JavaScript Object Notation
JSP	Java Server Pages
JSR	Java Specification Requests
JSTL	Java Server Pages Standard Tag Library
JVM	Java Virtual Machine

Abbreviations Glossary – K
Abbreviations	What they stand for
KADS	Knowledge Acquisition and Design Structuring
KB	Knowledge Base
kb	Knowledge Base
KBP	Knowledge Base Population
KIF	Knowledge Interchange Format
KIM	Knowledge and Information Management
KM	Knowledge Management

Abbreviations Glossary – L
Abbreviations	What they stand for
L10N	Localization
LAIP	Linking Artificial Intelligence Principles
LAN	Local Area Network
LDA	Linear discriminant analysis
LDAP	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LEM	Learnable Evolution Model
LGPL	Lesser General Public License
LMG	Legal Move Generator
LNAI	Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
LNN	Learning Neural Networks
LOAIT	Legal Ontologies and Artificial Intelligence Techniques
LPAR	Logic for Programming Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning
LSA	Latent semantic analysis
LSI	Large-Scale Integration
LSI	Latent Semantic Indexing
LSI	Latent Semantic Indexing
LSTM	Long Short Term Memory
LSTM	Long Short-term Memory
LSTM	Long Short-Term Memory
LTR	Learning To Rank

Abbreviations Glossary – M
Abbreviations	What they stand for
M2M	Machine to Machine
MAC	Mathematics and Computation
MAPI	Messaging Application Programming Interface
MASTA	Multi-Agent Systems Theory and Applications
MCMC	Markov Chain Monte Carlo
MDA	Model-Driven Architecture
MDAI	Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence
MDI	Multiple Document Interface
MDL	Minimum description length
MDRNN	Multidimensional recurrent neural network
MeSH	Medical Subject Headings
MFAI	Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence
MFC	Microsoft Foundation Classes
MI	Machine Intelligence
MIME	Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MIQ	Machine Intelligence Quotient
MIS	Management Information Systems
ML	Machine Learning
ML	Machine Learning
ML	Machine Learning
MLBB	Machine Learning in Biomedicine and Bioinformatics
MLE	Maximum Likelihood Estimation
MLP	Machine Learning and Perception
MMML	Multi Modal Machine Learning
MNIST	Modified National Institute of Standards and Technology
MOF	Meta Object Facility
MPL	Mozilla Public License
MRR	Mean Reciprocal Rank
MSDN	Microsoft Developer Network
MSI	Medium Scale Integration
MT	Machine Translation
MVC	Model View Controller

Abbreviations Glossary – N
Abbreviations	What they stand for
NAIRP	National Artificial Intelligence Resource Portal
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
NER	Named Entity Recognition
NER	Named Entity Recognition
NERQ	Named Entity Recognition in Query
NFS	Network File system
NI	Natural Intelligence
NIC	Network Interface Card
NLNN	Non-Learning Neural Networks
NLP	Natural Language Processing
NLP	Natural Language Processing
NLP	Natural Language Processing
NLU	Natural Language Understanding
NNM	Neural Network Model
NRN	No Reply Necessary
NTK	Neural Tangent Kernel
NTM	Neural Turing Machine

Abbreviations Glossary – O
Abbreviations	What they stand for
OBIE	Ontology-based Information Extraction
OCR	Optical Character Recognition
ODapps	Ontology-driven Applications
ODBC	Open Database Connectivity
OIL	Ontology Inference Layer
OLAP	Online Analytical Processing
OLTP	Online Transaction Processing
OMG	Object Management Group
OO	Object Oriented
OOP	Object Oriented Programming
OPML	Outline Processor Mar kup Language
OS	Open Source
OSDN	Open Source Developer Network
OSI	Open Source Initiative
OSI	Open Systems Interconnection
OSS	Open-Source Software
OSS	Operational Support Systems
OSTG	Open Source Technology Group
OWL	Web Ontology Language

Abbreviations Glossary – P
Abbreviations	What they stand for
PACO	Poisson Additive Co-Clustering
PAI	Platform of Artificial Intelligence
PAIC	Python Artificial Intelligence Chatbot
PAMI	Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
PBAI	Pattern Based Artificial Intelligence
PCA	Principal Component Analysis
PDDL	Planning Domain Description Language
PDF	Portable Document Format
PERL	Practical Extraction and Reporting Language
PFE	Probabilistic Facial Embeddings
PLSI	Probabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing
PMF	Probabilistic Matrix Factorization
PMI	Pointwise Mutual Information
PNG	Portable Network Graphics
PPAI	Parallel Processing for Artificial Intelligence
PPMI	Positive Pointwise Mutual Information
PSML	Private and Secure Machine Learning

Abbreviations Glossary – Q

Abbreviations

What they stand for

QAI

Quantum Artificial Intelligence

Abbreviations Glossary – R
Abbreviations	What they stand for
RAD	Rapid Application Development
RAI	Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
RAID	Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
RDF	Resource Description Framework
ReLU	Rectified Linear Unit
RIA	Rich Internet Application
RL	Reinforcement Learning
RL	Reinforcement Learning
RL	Reinforcement Learning
RLE	Run Length Encoding
RLFM	Regression based latent factors
RMI	Remote Method Invocation
RNN	Recurrent Neural Network
RNN	Recurrent Neural Network
RNNLM	Recurrent Neural Network Language Model
ROB	Robot Operating Buddy
ROC	Receiver Operating Characteristic
RPA	Robotic Process Automation
RPC	Remote Procedure Call
RPROP	Resilient Propagation
RSS	Really Simple Syndication

Abbreviations Glossary – S
Abbreviations	What they stand for
SAI	Strategic Artificial Intelligence
SBM	Stochastic block model
SBO	Structured Bayesian optimization
SBSE	Search-based software engineering
SCH	Stochastic convex hull
seq2seq	Sequence to Sequence Learning
SGD	Stochastic Gradient Descent
SMBO	Sequential Model-Based Optimization
SR	Speech Recognition
SVD	Singular Value Decomposition

Abbreviations Glossary – T
Abbreviations	What they stand for
TAI	Trading Artificial Intelligence
TCP/IP	Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TGAN	Temporal Generative Adversarial Network
TPAMI	Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
TRPO	Trust Region Policy Optimization