Performance of SVM and Bayesian classifiers on the systematic review classification task

Abstract

We are grateful to Professor Cohen for his letter and clarification of the support vector machine algorithm (SVM) results (in press). We agree that the results he supplies fill a gap in our paper. We could not have performed this comparison in our paper, as the first version was written prior to the publication of his own article,1 which in any case, as Dr Cohen points out, did not include the SVM results in terms of within-groups sum of squares (WSS). We would like, however, to …