About this article  This article is meant to be an introduction guide of Algorithm::LibLinear , a Perl binding to the famous LIBLINEAR machine learning toolkit.  I've once written an article titled "Algorithm::LibLinear の紹介" ("Introduction to Algorithm::LibLinear,") in Japanese. Today, although some part of the article is outdated, Blogger's access analytics reported me that the article is still popular, and fairly large number of visitors are from English-speaking country. Thus I guessed I should prepare an updated tutorial in English.  Notice that what I try to describe here is library usage, not a machine learning methodology. If you are new to machine learning, I recommend to read a practical guide by Chih-Wei Hsu, et al  and try LIBSVM/LIBLINEAR using CLI commands at first.  As you might see my English skill is not so great. Please don't hesitate to point/correct unclear part of this article and help me to fix it.  Installation  Algorithm::LibLinear...