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The WEKA data mining software: an update

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Hall, Mark, Frank, Eibe, Holmes, Geoffrey, Pfahringer, Bernhard, Reutemann, Peter, Witten, Ian H.·2009·ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter

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More than twelve years have elapsed since the first public release of WEKA. In that time, the software has been rewritten entirely from scratch, evolved substantially and now accompanies a text on data mining [35]. These days, WEKA enjoys widespread acceptance in both academia and business, has an active community, and has been downloaded more than 1.4 million times since being placed on Source-Forge in April 2000. This paper provides an introduction to the WEKA workbench, reviews the history of the project, and, in light of the recent 3.6 stable release, briefly discusses what has been added since the last stable version (Weka 3.4) released in 2003.

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  • The authors of [8] exploit several characteristics gathered by crawling an account's details, both from its profile and timeline, and use them in a Random Forest algorithm that outputs whether the account is a spambot or not.

    “The authors exploit several characteristics that can be gathered crawling an account's details, both from its profile and timeline. For each investigated account, such characteristics are exploited in a Random Forest algorithm [23, 43], that outputs if the account is a spambot or not.”

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    The WEKA Workbench section describes software for applying classification algorithms, but it does not describe crawling account profiles or timelines to detect spambots. Searches for Random Forest and spambot account features found no passage in our copy establishing the specific method attributed to this source. (LLM, conf=0.76)

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Authors
Hall, M., Frank, E., Holmes, G., Pfahringer, B., Reutemann, P., & Witten, I. H.
Affiliations
  • Pentaho Corporation, Orlando, FL
  • University of Waikato (NZ)
Venue
ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter
Published
2009-11-16
Volume
11
Issue
1
Pages
10-18
ISSN
  • 1931-0145 (ISSN-L)
  • 1931-0153
OpenAlex
W2133990480
Cited by
17,750
References
37
Citations by year
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FWCI
2427.11
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter (publishedVersion)
  • Research Commons (University of Waikato) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Data Mining and Machine Learning Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Data Mining Algorithms and Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Machine Learning and Data Classification
Keywords
WEKA, data mining tools, software release history, open source software

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