Click here to download the run-svm-text.pl script

I am about to release run-svm-text.pl. The script more fully implements the hierarchical classifier from the citation below and has many enhancements, including additions to document pre-processing, margin optimization, cost optimization, cost modeling, and control for the SVMstruct system in addition to SVMlight.

Purpura, S., Hillard D. “Automated Classification of Congressional Legislation." Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Digital Government Research. San Diego, CA.

Contact me if you wish to contribute, file bugs, or suggest new features.

Special thanks to the following people for their contributions:

• Dustin Hillard
• Thorsten Joachims
• Claire Cardie
• Eric Breck