Support vector machine is a training algorithm for learning classification
and regression rules from data. It is emerging as one of the
hottest and fruitful learning methodology in artificial intelligence.
Fundamentally SVMs are binary classification algorithm with
strong theoretical foundations in statistical learning theory. Their
ease of use, theoretical appeal, and remarkable performance had
made them the system of choice for many learning problems. It
has been applied very successfully in areas like optical character
recognition, text classification, phoneme classification for speech
understanding and synthesis, medical data analysis etc where once
neural network, fuzzy logic and other statistical methodology ruled
the roost.