This document discusses classification techniques for data mining. It provides an overview of common classification algorithms including decision trees, k-nearest neighbors (kNN), and Naive Bayes. Decision trees use a top-down approach to classify data based on attribute tests at each node. kNN identifies the k nearest training examples to classify new data points. Naive Bayes assumes independence between attributes and uses Bayes' theorem for classification. The document also discusses how these techniques are used for data cleaning, integration, transformation and knowledge representation in the data mining process.