Sure. Let me elaborate. A support vector machine is a type of machine learning algorithm. ML algorithms are usually used for classification -- train some sort of model and then use it to classify unknown instances. For my research project (for example), we used an SVM to categorize DOM elements -- say you want to get a list of all of the phone numbers on a page; our program can (given a few training examples) do just that using SVM- Light (through my Python binding).
ML algorithms have tons of applications, but I'm not really an expert here. Maybe someone else can contribute their experiences with ML in general or SVMs in particular. Support vector machines are a very versatile and generic type of ML algo. On May 4, 11:34 am, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:11 AM, William Cauchois <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > As part of another project, I completed a rudimentary Python binding > > to Thorsten Joachims' SVM-Light library (http:// > > svmlight.joachims.org/) implementing a Support Vector Machine. My > > source code is available at > > >http://bitbucket.org/wcauchois/pysvmlight > > > Are there people doing ML research who would be interested in having > > access to SVM-Light from inside Sage? Is there anyone who would like > > to help me get PySVMLight into a more feature-complete state and then > > integrate it with Sage? > > Could you write a little more to sage-devel about why mathematicians > might care about "support vector machines" -- it's possible that most > people reading this have never heard of them. > > William > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL:http://www.sagemath.org -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
