a=all OR s=sparse

b=binary OR i=integer

n=integer index OR w=string OR e=empty OR

c=combination The default is the last in each list

-F, --print-word-foilgain=CLASSNAME

Print the word/foilgain vector for CLASSNAME. See Mitchell's Machine Learning textbook for a description of foilgain.

-I, --print-word-infogain=N

Print the N words with the highest information gain.

--print-doc-names[=TAG]

Print the filenames of documents contained in the model. If the optional TAG argument is given, print only the documents that have the specified tag, where TAG might be `train', `test', etc.

--print-log-odds-ratio[=N]

For each class, print the N words with the highest log odds ratio score. Default is N=10.

--print-word-counts=WORD

Print the number of times WORD occurs in each class.

--print-word-pair-infogain=N

Print the N word-pairs, which when co-occuring in a document, have the highest information gain. (Unfinished; ignores N.)

--print-word-probabilities=CLASS

Print P(w|CLASS), the probability in class CLASS of each word in the vocabulary.

--test-from-saved

Classify using the class model saved to disk. This option is unstable.

--use-saved-classifier Don't ever re-train the classifier.

Use whatever class barrel was saved to disk. This option designed for use with --query-server

-W, --print-word-weights=CLASSNAME

Print the word/weight vector for CLASSNAME, sorted with high weights first. The meaning of `weight' is undefined.

Probabilistic Indexing options, --method=prind:

-G, --prind-no-foilgain-weight-scaling

Don't have PrInd scale its weights by Quinlan's FoilGain.

-N, --prind-no-score-normalization

Don't have PrInd normalize its class scores to sum to one.

--prind-non-uniform-priors

Make PrInd use non-uniform class priors.

General options

--annotations=FILE

The sarray file containing annotations for the files in the index

-b, --no-backspaces

Don't use backspace when verbosifying progress (good for use in emacs)

-d, --data-dir=DIR

Set the directory in which to read/write word-vector data (default=~/.<program_name>).

--random-seed=NUM

The non-negative integer to use for seeding the random number generator

--score-precision=NUM

The number of decimal digits to print when displaying document scores

-v, --verbosity=LEVEL

Set amount of info printed while running; (0=silent, 1=quiet, 2=show-progess,...5=max)

Lexing options

--append-stoplist-file=FILE

Add words in FILE to the stoplist.

--exclude-filename=FILENAME

When scanning directories for text files, skip files with name matching FILENAME.

-g, --gram-size=N

Create tokens for all 1-grams,... N-grams.

-h, --skip-header

Avoid lexing news/mail headers by scanning forward until two newlines.

--istext-avoid-uuencode

Check for uuencoded blocks before saying that the file is text, and say no if there are many lines of the same length.

--lex-pipe-command=SHELLCMD

Pipe files through this shell command before lexing them.

--max-num-words-per-document=N

Only tokenize the first N words in each document.

--no-stemming

Do not modify lexed words with a stemming function. (usually the default, depending on lexer)

--replace-stoplist-file=FILE

Empty the default stoplist, and add space-delimited words from FILE.

-s, --no-stoplist

Do not toss lexed words that appear in the stoplist.

--shortest-word=LENGTH Toss lexed words that are shorter than LENGTH.

Default is usually 2.

-S, --use-stemming

Modify lexed words with the `Porter' stemming function.

--use-stoplist

Toss lexed words that appear in the stoplist. (usually the default SMART stoplist, depending on lexer)

--use-unknown-word

When used in conjunction with -O or -D, captures all words with occurrence counts below threshold as the `<unknown>' token

--xxx-words-only

Only tokenize words with `xxx' in them

Mutually exclusive choice of lexers

--flex-mail

Use a mail-specific flex lexer

--flex-tagged

Use a tagged flex lexer

-H, --skip-html

Skip HTML tokens when lexing.

--lex-alphanum

Use a special lexer that includes digits in tokens, delimiting tokens only by non-alphanumeric characters.

--lex-infix-string=ARG Use only the characters after ARG in each word for

stoplisting and stemming. If a word does not contain ARG, the entire word is used.

--lex-suffixing

Use a special lexer that adds suffixes depending on Email-style headers.

--lex-white

Use a special lexer that delimits tokens by whitespace only, and does not change the contents of the token at all---no downcasing, no stemming, no stoplist, nothing. Ideal for use with an externally-written lexer interfaced to rainbow with --lex-pipe-cmd.

Feature-selection options

-D, --prune-vocab-by-doc-count=N

Remove words that occur in N or fewer documents.

-O, --prune-vocab-by-occur-count=N

Remove words that occur less than N times.

-T, --prune-vocab-by-infogain=N

Remove all but the top N words by selecting words with highest information gain.

Weight-vector setting/scoring method options

--binary-word-counts

Instead of using integer occurrence counts of words to set weights, use binary absence/presence.

--event-document-then-word-document-length=NUM

Set the normalized length of documents when --event-model=document-then-word

--event-model=EVENTNAME

Set what objects will be considered the `events' of the probabilistic model. EVENTNAME can be one of: word, document, document-then-word.

Default is `word'.

--infogain-event-model=EVENTNAME

Set what objects will be considered the `events' when information gain is calculated. EVENTNAME can be one of: word, document, document-then-word.

Default is `document'.

-m, --method=METHOD

Set the word weight-setting method; METHOD may be one of: active, em, emsimple, kl, knn, maxent, naivebayes, nbshrinkage, nbsimple, prind, tfidf_words, tfidf_log_words, tfidf_log_occur, tfidf, svm, default=naivebayes.

--print-word-scores

During scoring, print the contribution of each word to each class.

--smoothing-dirichlet-filename=FILE

The file containing the alphas for the dirichlet smoothing.

--smoothing-dirichlet-weight=NUM

The weighting factor by which to muliply the alphas for dirichlet smoothing.

--smoothing-goodturing-k=NUM

Smooth word probabilities for words that occur NUM or less times. The default is 7.

--smoothing-method=METHOD

Set the method for smoothing word probabilities to avoid zeros; METHOD may be one of: goodturing, laplace, mestimate, wittenbell

--uniform-class-priors When setting weights, calculating infogain and

scoring, use equal prior probabilities on classes.

Support Vector Machine options, --method=svm:

--svm-active-learning= Use active learning to query the labels &

incrementally (by arg_size) build the barrels.

--svm-active-learning-baseline=

Incrementally add documents to the training set at random.

--svm-al-transduce

do transduction over the unlabeled data during active learning.

--svm-al_init_tsetsize=

Number of random documents to start with in active learning.

--svm-bsize=

maximum size to construct the subproblems.

--svm-cache-size=

Number of kernel evaluations to cache.

--svm-cost=

cost to bound the lagrange multipliers by (default 1000).

--svm-df-counts=

Set df_counts (0=occurrences, 1=words).

--svm-epsilon_a=

tolerance for the bounds of the lagrange multipliers (default 0.0001).

--svm-kernel=

type of kernel to use (0=linear, 1=polynomial, 2=gassian, 3=sigmoid, 4=fisher kernel).

--svm-quick-scoring

Turn quick scoring on.

--svm-remove-misclassified=

Remove all of the misclassified examples and retrain (default none (0), 1=bound, 2=wrong.

--svm-rseed=

what random seed should be used in the test-in-train splits

--svm-start-at=

which model should be the first generated.

--svm-suppress-score-matrix

Do not print the scores of each test document at each AL iteration.

--svm-test-in-train

do active learning testing inside of the training... a hack around making code 10 times more complicated.

--svm-tf-transform=

0=raw, 1=log...

--svm-trans-cost=

value to assign to C* (default 200).

--svm-trans-hyp-refresh=

how often the hyperplane should be recomputed during transduction. Only applies to SMO. (default 40)

--svm-trans-nobias

Do not use a bias when marking unlabeled documents. Use a threshold of 0 to determine labels instead of some threshold tomark a certain number of documents for each class.

--svm-trans-npos=

number of unlabeled documents to label as positive (default: proportional to number of labeled positive docs).

--svm-trans-smart-vals=

use previous problem's as a starting point for the next. (default true)

--svm-transduce-class= override default class(es) (int) to do

transduction with (default bow_doc_unlabeled).

--svm-use-smo=

default 1 (use SMO) - PR_LOQO not compiled

--svm-vote=

Type of voting to use (0=singular, 1=pairwise; default 0).

--svm-weight=

type of function to use to set the weights of the documents' words (0=raw_frequency, 1=tfidf, 2=infogain.

Naive Bayes options, --method=naivebayes:

--naivebayes-binary-scoring

When using naivebayes, use hacky scoring to get good Precision-Recall curves.

--naivebayes-m-est-m=M When using `m'-estimates for smoothing in

NaiveBayes, use M as the value for `m'. The default is the size of vocabulary.

--naivebayes-normalize-log

When using naivebayes, return -1/log(P(C|d), normalized to sum to one instead of P(C|d). This results in values that are not so close to zero and one.

Maximum Entropy options, --method=maxent:

--maxent-constraint-docs=TYPE

The documents to use for setting the constraints. The default is train. The other choice is trainandunlabeled.

--maxent-gaussian-prior

Add a Gaussian prior to each word/class feature constraint.

--maxent-gaussian-prior-no-zero-constraints

When using a gaussian prior, do not enforce constraints that have notraining data.

--maxent-halt-by-accuracy=TYPE

When running maxent, halt iterations using the accuracy of documents. TYPE is type of documentsto test. See `--em-halt-using-perplexity` for choices for TYPE

--maxent-halt-by-logprob=TYPE

When running maxent, halt iterations using the logprob of documents. TYPE is type of documentsto test. See `--em-halt-using-perplexity` for choices for TYPE

--maxent-iteration-docs=TYPE

The types of documents to use for maxent iterations. The default is train. TYPE is type of documents to test. See `--em-halt-using-perplexity` for choices for TYPE

--maxent-iterations=NUM

The number of iterative scaling iterations to perform. The default is 40.

--maxent-keep-features-by-mi=NUM

The number of top words by mutual information per class to use as features. Zeroimplies no pruning and is the default.

--maxent-logprob-constraints

Set constraints to be the log prob of the word.

--maxent-print-accuracy=TYPE

When running maximum entropy, print the accuracy of documents at each round. TYPE is type of document to measure perplexity on. See `--em-halt-using-perplexity` for choices for TYPE

--maxent-prior-variance=NUM

The variance to use for the Gaussian prior. The default is 0.01.

--maxent-prune-features-by-count=NUM

Prune the word/class feature set, keeping only those features that haveat least NUM occurrences in the training set.

--maxent-scoring-hack

Use smoothed naive Bayes probability for zero occuring word/class pairs during scoring

--maxent-smooth-counts Add 1 to the count of each word/class pair when

calculating the constraint values.

--maxent-vary-prior-by-count

Multiply log (1 + N(w,c)) times variance when using a gaussian prior.

--maxent-vary-prior-by-count-linearly

Mulitple N(w,c) times variance when using a Gaussian prior.

K-nearest neighbor options, --method=knn:

--knn-k=K

Number of neighbours to use for nearest neighbour. Defaults to 30.

--knn-weighting=xxx.xxx

Weighting scheme to use, coded like SMART. Defaults to nnn.nnnThe first three chars describe how the model documents areweighted, the second three describe how the test document isweighted. The codes for each position are described in knn.c.Classification consists of summing the scores per class for thek nearest neighbour documents and sorting.

EMSIMPLE options:

--emsimple-no-init

Use this option when using emsimple as the secondary method for genem

--emsimple-num-iterations=NUM

Number of EM iterations to run when building model.

--emsimple-print-accuracy=TYPE

When running emsimple, print the accuracy of documents at each EM round. Type can be validation, train, or test.

EM options:

--em-anneal

Use Deterministic annealing EM.

--em-anneal-normalizer When running EM, do deterministic annealing-ish

stuff with the unlabeled normalizer.

--em-binary

Do special tricks for the binary case.

--em-binary-neg-classname=CLASS

Specify the name of the negative class if building a binary classifier.

--em-binary-pos-classname=CLASS

Specify the name of the positive class if building a binary classifier.

--em-compare-to-nb

When building an EM class barrel, show doc stats for the naivebayesbarrel equivalent. Only use in conjunction with --test.

--em-crossentropy

Use crossentropy instead of naivebayes for scoring.

--em-halt-using-accuracy=TYPE

When running EM, halt when accuracy plateaus. TYPE is type of document to measure perplexity on.

Choices are `validation', `train', `test',

`unlabeled' and `trainandunlabeled' and `trainandunlabeledloo'

--em-halt-using-perplexity=TYPE

When running EM, halt when perplexity plataeus. TYPE is type of document to measure perplexity on.

Choices are `validation', `train', `test',

`unlabeled',

`trainandunlabeled' and

`trainandunlabeledloo'

--em-labeled-for-start-only

Use the labeled documents to set the starting point for EM, butignore them during the iterations

--em-multi-hump-init=METHOD

When initializing mixture components, how to assign component probs to documents. Default is `spread'. Other choices are `spiked'.

--em-multi-hump-neg=NUM

Use NUM center negative classes. Only use in binary case.Must be using scoring method nb_score.

--em-num-iterations=NUM

Number of EM iterations to run when building model.

--em-perturb-starting-point=TYPE

Instead of starting EM with P(w|c) from the labeled training data, start from values that are randomly sampled from the multinomial specified by the labeled training data. TYPE specifies what distribution to use for the perturbation; choices are `gaussian' `dirichlet', and `none'. Default is `none'.

--em-print-accuracy=TYPE

When running EM, print the accuracy of documents at each round. TYPE is type of document to measure perplexity on. See `--em-halt-using-perplexity` for choices for TYPE

--em-print-perplexity=TYPE

When running EM, print the perplexity of documents at each round. TYPE is type of document to measure perplexity on. See `--em-halt-using-perplexity` for choices for TYPE

--em-print-top-words

Print the top 10 words per class for each EM iteration.

--em-save-probs

On each EM iteration, save all P(C|w) to a file.

--em-set-vocab-from-unlabeled

Remove words from the vocabulary not used in the unlabeled data

--em-stat-method=STAT

The method to convert scores to probabilities.The default is 'nb_score'.

--em-temp-reduce=NUM

Temperature reduction factor for deterministic annealing. Default is 0.9.

--em-temperature=NUM

Initial temperature for deterministic annealing. Default is 200.

--em-unlabeled-normalizer=NUM

Number of unlabeled docs it takes to equal a labeled doc.Defaults to one.

--em-unlabeled-start=TYPE

When initializing the EM starting point, how the unlabeled docs contribute. Default is `zero'.

Other choices are `prior' `random'

and `even'.

Active Learning options:

--active-add-per-round=NUM

Specify the number of documents to label each round. The default is 4.

--active-beta=NUM

Increase spread of document densities.

--active-binary-pos=CLASS

The name of the positive class for binary classification. Required forrelevance sampling.

--active-committee-size=NUM

The number of committee members to use with QBC. Default is 1.

--active-final-em

Finish with a full round of EM.

--active-no-final-em

Finish without a full round of EM.

--active-num-rounds=NUM

The number of active learning rounds to perform. The default is 10.

--active-perturb-after-em

Perturb after running EM to create committee members.

--active-pr-print-stat-summary

Print the precision recall curves used for score to probability remapping.

--active-pr-window-size=NUM

Set the window size for precision-recall score to probability remapping.The default is 20.

--active-print-committee-matrices

Print the confusion matrix for each committee member at each round.

--active-qbc-low-kl

Select documents with the lowest kl-divergence instead of the highest.

--active-remap-scores-pr

Remap scores with sneaky precision-recall tricks.

--active-secondary-method=METHOD

The underlying method for active learning to use. The default is 'naivebayes'.

--active-selection-method=METHOD

Specify the selection method for picking unlabeled docs. One of uncertainty, relevance, qbc, random. The default is 'uncertainty'.

--active-stream-epsilon=NUM

The rate factor for selecting documents in stream sampling.

--active-test-stats

Generate output for test docs every n rounds.

-?, --help

Give this help list

--usage

Give a short usage message

-V, --version

Print program version

Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options.