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Shameless plug: if you're interested in MALLET you might also be interested in FACTORIE: http://factorie.cs.umass.edu/ http://factorie.cs.umass.edu/

• eob 12y ago
  Is development on FACTORIE ongoing? I played with it a bit a long while back and loved the "imperative-declarative[1]" idea you all were pushing for model construction toolkits. [1] edit: Because I'm not sure if I just made that phrase up or if it came from one of your papers, the idea that ML libraries that take declarative model descriptions are great, but what's even better is if we also have an imperative API that can dynamically generate those declarative specs for us, even based on train-time inputs, so we can essentially "program" the structure of a model but still benefit from keeping everything generalized and declarative at the base.
  • k8si 12y ago
    Development is very much ongoing and that's really interesting/nice-to-hear feedback :)
• hnriot 12y ago
  FACTORIE has some nice features, but it's not as robust as Mallet. Factorie is a ML incubator more than a robust library, it's in Scala, another inculator platform which also doesn't help. Factorie has some interesting features for sure, but the quality of programming is just not there. It's developed and maintained mainly by students which makes absolute sense given that it appears that Factorie is more for tutorials.