Showing posts with label about daurolab. Show all posts
Showing posts with label about daurolab. Show all posts

5 May 2010

Artwork and name



The artwork of DauroLab presents a cartoonized bridge on a small river in what it seems to be an old city. In fact, the city shown is the old part of Granada (my city): the Acera del Darro Carrera del Darro, a street near the Alhambra and one of the most typical postcards of Granada. The river in the picture is the Darro, whose name comes from the latin word Dauro (making reference to the gold content on its banks).

The name DauroLab is a conjunction of Dauro (the name of that river) and Lab (laboratory). The fact that the river contained gold in ancient times makes the name nicer, because one may do the interpretation that this package is built to extract gold from its data.

3 May 2010

About DauroLab

DauroLab is a toolbox for large scale machine learning, mainly supervised classification, originally designed for document categorization purposes. It has been written by Alfonso E. Romero, while writing his PhD Thesis (from April 2006 to April 2010), but he also tries to keep on developing it, adding new features.

DauroLab is written in Java, under a GNU Gpl license (version 3). It has few dependencies, all of them released under a OSI approved license (in other words, libre or open source licences).