Support Vector Machine in Waffles

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I am using the fantastic Waffles for text classification. and I need to use support vector machine algoritm on my data. Unfortunately, I couldn't find the appropriate GLearner class. Would you please explain what is the best strategy to do SVM classification in waffle? Maybe I am supposed to use LibSVM and create my own GLearner. If I am right about it, please explain me the way I can do that.

Thanks in advance (Special Thanks to Dr. Gashler for such a holistic application),

Siamak,

[Mike Gashler]

Waffles currently lacks an SVM classifier, so implementing your own learner that wraps LibSVM is probably the easiest way to do it. Here is our documentation about how to write a new learner for Waffles:

http://waffles.sourceforge.net/docs/new_learner.html

This is a feature that others have requested, so I am very interested in having this deficiency addressed. If you encounter difficulties, my e-mail address is on the main waffles page.

[Anonymous]

Dear Dr. Gashler,

Thanks for your instant response. I will go through the development and inform you about the results as soon as possible.

Thanks again,
Siamak