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What in your opinion is the best and most extendable open source toolkit or library for machine learning? NLTK? Weka? Other?
by jlees 16y ago
What in your opinion is the best and most extendable open source toolkit or library for machine learning?
NLTK? Weka? Other?
- bravura 16y agoIt really depends upon the task. For each task (e.g. POS tagging), I maintain a list of current open source implementations. When I attack a problem that involves this task, I weight the tradeoff between how easy the tool is to use with how accurate the tool is. Most of the time, I favor ease-of-use. If I need high-accuracy, I start hand-rolling my tools and keeping them around for later. p.s. I don't actually use NLTK or Weka that often.
- syllogism 16y agoI would advise against buying into a large framework too much, because in my experience they aren't very performant, and you usually do need to care about speed here. I think you're better off taking the modules you need from open source libraries, favouring fast C and C++ implementations, and then writing the glue yourself. That way, you won't pay for abstractions you don't need. The glue shouldn't take very long to write.