Support vector machines and learning about time

The analysis of temporal data is an important issue in current research, because most real-world data either explicitly or implicitly contains some information about time. The key to successfully solving temporal learning tasks is to analyze the assumptions and prior knowledge that can be made about the temporal process of the learning problem and find a representation of the data and a learning algorithm that makes effective use of this knowledge. The paper presents a concise overview of the application of support vector machines to different temporal learning tasks and the corresponding temporal representations.