SVM-light: new version and book

[Thorsten Joachims]

Dear Colleague,

a new version of SVM-Light (V5.00) is available, as well as my
dissertation "Learning to Classify Text using Support Vector Machines",
which recently appeared with Kluwer.

The new version can be downloaded from

     http://svmlight.joachims.org/

SVM-Light is an implementation of Support Vector Machines (SVMs) for
large-scale problems. The new features of this version are the 
following:

- Learning of ranking functions (e.g. for search engines), in addition
  to classification and regression.
- Bug fixes and improved numerical stability.

The dissertation describes the algorithms and methods implemented in
SVM-light. In particular, it shows how these methods can be used for
text classification. Links are on my homepage

     http://www.joachims.org/

Cheers
Thorsten
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Thorsten Joachims
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Cornell University
http://www.joachims.org/