SVM and artificial neural networks [Archive]

boemans

11-14-2007, 07:05 AM

Hello there,

Is it possible to use Support Vector Machines and Artificial Neural Networks in Weka? Which classifier should I use?

I would like to get some more information on this topic, because it's quite new for me...

Thanks in advance!

Mark

11-15-2007, 04:55 PM

Hi,

Yes, Weka has support vector machines (both for classification and regression) and multi-layer perceptrons (neural nets). Try

weka.classifiers.functions.SMO (classification), weka.classifiers.functions.SMOreg (regression) and weka.classifiers.functions.MultilayerPerceptron.

More information can be found in the book that accompanies Weka:

http://www.amazon.com/Data-Mining-Practical-Techniques-Management/dp/0120884070/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-7515695-3710255?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194294854&sr=8-1

Ian H. Witten and Eibe Frank. 2005. Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques. Morgan Kaufmann.

Plenty of information can be found on the web as well. Here is a guide to applying support vector machines:

www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/papers/guide/guide.pdf

Cheers,
Mark.