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Features

  • Fast, decision-tree-based implementation of k-nearest neighbor classification
  • Implementations of IB1 and IB2, IGTree, TRIBL, and TRIBL2 algorithms
  • Similarity metrics: Overlap, MVDM, Jeffrey Divergence, Dot product, Cosine
  • Feature weighting metrics: information gain, gain ratio, chi squared, shared variance
  • Per-value similarity metrics: Levenshtein, Dice coefficient
  • Distance weighting metrics: inverse, inverse linear, exponential decay
  • Extensive verbosity options to inspect nearest neighbor sets
  • Server functionality and extensive API
  • Fast leave-one-out testing and internal cross-validation
  • Handles user-defined example weighting
Archived versions

version 1.0    version 4.0    version 5.1    version 6.1.4
version 2.0    version 4.1    version 6.0    version 6.2.0
version 3.0    version 4.2    version 6.1    version 6.2.1
3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3    version 5.0    version 6.1.2

Additional TiMBL resources

Dimbl Parallel TiMBL for multi-CPU machines
Mbt Memory-based tagger/generator
Tadpole Dutch morphosyntactic tagger
paramsearch Automatic parameter optimization for TiMBL (and other ML algorithms)
Timpute TiMBL-based data imputation
python-timbl Python language binding for TiMBL
rtimbl a Ruby interface to TiMBL
knngraph Visualizes nearest neighbors in a TiMBL instance base

Registration and feedback

If you want to be informed about future TiMBL releases, please send an email to timbl@uvt.nl.

Also, please send your questions and bug reports to timbl@uvt.nl. The development of Timbl benefits from your contributions.

Related projects

Further information

Walter Daelemans Antal van den Bosch
CNTS, Center for Dutch Language and Speech ILK, Induction of Linguistic Knowledge Research Group
University of Antwerp Tilburg University

Antal.vdnBosch@uvt.nl | Last update: Tue Jan 26 2010