Do people still use the Lemur Toolkit?

Yes agree to a large extant that SAS is a dinosaur. It should have been out of existence long time back. R is infinite times better and then there are several other prop tools. One good thing that SAS does well though is out-of-core processing. read more

Sometimes the L2 norm parameter you use may be a small order off the ideal value that you need, but you wouldn't know this. So you try your parameter values anyway, but discover that your algorithm still overfits if you run it for too many epochs. read more

The Lemur Project's software development philosophy emphasizes state-of-the-art accuracy, flexibility, and efficiency. For example, the Indri search engine provides accurate search for large text collections 'out of the box', and data is stored in an accessible manner to support development of new retrieval strategies. read more