SvmLightLib consists of three tightly integrated parts:
* SVM^light, by Thorsten Joachims
* SVM^multiclass (a derivative of SVM^struct), by Thorsten Joachims
* The DLL wrapper, by Miha Grcar

Authors:
* Thorsten Joachims
	thorsten@joachims.org
	Cornell University
	Department of Computer Science
	4153 Upson Hall
	Ithaca, NY 14853
	USA
* Miha Grcar
	Department of Knowledge Technologies
	Jozef Stefan Institute
	Jamova cesta 39
	1000 Ljubljana
	Slovenia

LICENSING TERMS 

This library is granted free of charge for non-commercial research and education purposes. However you must obtain a license from the author or SVM^light and SVM^struct (Thorsten Joachims) to use it for commercial purposes.

Scientific results produced using the software provided shall acknowledge the use of SVM^light and SVM^struct. Please cite as follows:

* I. Tsochantaridis, T. Joachims, T. Hofmann, and Y. Altun, Large Margin Methods for Structured and Interdependent Output Variables, Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 6(Sep):1453-1484, 2005. http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/volume6/tsochantaridis05a/tsochantaridis05a.pdf
* T. Joachims, Making Large-scale SVM Learning Practical. Advances in Kernel Methods - Support Vector Learning, B. Schölkopf and C. Burges and A. Smola (ed.), MIT-Press, 1999. http://www-ai.cs.uni-dortmund.de/DOKUMENTE/joachims_99a.pdf

Moreover shall the author of SVM^light and SVM^struct (Thorsten Joachims) be informed about the publication.

The software and derivatives of the software must not be distributed without prior permission of the author of SVM^light and SVM^struct (Thorsten Joachims).

By using SvmLightLib you agree to the licensing terms.

NO WARRANTY 

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