In this paper we introduce a mixed approach for the semi-supervised data problem. Our approach consists of an ensemble unsupervised learning part where the labeled and unlabeled points are segmented into clusters.(...)

Support Vector Machines (SVMs) are rarely benchmarked against other classification or regression methods. We compare a popular SVM implementation (libsvm) to 16 classification methods and 9 regression methodsall accessible through the software Ruby the means of standard performance measures...