MALLET: A Machine Learning for Language Toolkit is a Java-based package for statistical natural language processing, document classification, clustering, topic modeling, information extraction, and other machine learning applications to text.
MALLET includes sophisticated tools for document classification: efficient routines for converting text to “features”, a wide variety of algorithms (including Naïve Bayes, Maximum Entropy, and Decision Trees), and code for evaluating classifier performance using several commonly used metrics.
MALLET also includes tools for sequence tagging for applications such as named-entity extraction from text. Algorithms include Hidden Markov Models, Maximum Entropy Markov Models, and Conditional Random Fields. These methods are implemented in an extensible system for finite state transducers.
Topic models are useful for analyzing large collections of unlabeled text. The MALLET topic modeling toolkit contains efficient, sampling-based implementations of Latent Dirichlet Allocation, Pachinko Allocation, and Hierarchical LDA.
Many of the algorithms in MALLET depend on numerical optimization. MALLET includes an efficient implementation of Limited Memory BFGS, among many other optimization methods.
MALLET includes routines for transforming text documents into numerical representations that can then be processed efficiently. This process is implemented through a flexible system of “pipes”, which handle distinct tasks such as tokenizing strings, removing stopwords, and converting sequences into count vectors.
An add-on package to MALLET, called GRMM, contains support for inference in general graphical models, and training of CRFs with arbitrary graphical structure.
Algorithms:
- Topic Modelling:
- LDA.
- Parallel LDA.
- DMR LDA.
- Hierarchical LDA.
- Labeled LDA.
- Polylingual Topic Model.
- Hierarchical Pachinko Allocation Model (PAM).
- Weighted Topic Model.
- LDA with integrated phrase discovery.
- Word Embeddings (word2vec) using skip-gram with negative sampling.
- Classification:
- AdaBoost.
- Bagging.
- Winnow.
- C45 Decision Tree.
- Ensemble Trainer.
- Maximum Entropy Classifier (Multinomial Logistic Regression).
- Naive Bayes.
- Rank Maximum Entropy Classifier.
- Posterior Regularization Auxiliary Model.
- Clustering:
- Greedy Agglomerative.
- Hill Climbing.
- K-Means.
- K-Best.
- Sequence Prediction Models:
- Conditional Random Fields.
- Maximum Entropy Markov Models.
- Hidden Markov Models.
- Semi-Supervised Sequence Prediction Models.
- Linear Regression.
Website: mimno.github.io
Support: Mailing List, GitHub Code Repository
Developer: University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Computer Science; Andrew McCallum, with contributions from several graduate students and staff, including Kedar Bellare, Gaurav Chandalia, Aron Culotta, Gregory Druck, Al Hough, Wei Li, David Mimno, David Pinto, Sameer Singh, Charles Sutton, Jerod Weinman, and Limin Yao, at University of Massachusetts Amherst, as well as contributions from Fernando Pereira, Ryan McDonald, and others at University of Pennsylvania.
License: Common Public License, version 1.0 (CPL-1.0)
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