A Framework for Form Applications that Use Machine Learning

Machine Learning (ML) has been used efficiently in applications across multiple domains. As a consequence, there is a growing interest in ML techniques and artifacts that facilitate its use. However, most of them are aimed at researchers and experienced users. In addition, few artifacts provide more than ready-made algorithms. In this work, we present a framework capable of delivering ready-to-use ML algorithms, as well as the code to be reused by form applications that use ML algorithms. We also show an example where we used the framework to build two form applications. The results show that the framework is able to reduce approximately 50% of the effort when building a new application. In addition, the framework allows to include new state-of-the-art ML algorithms in an easy way, as well as it provides a simple flow control that assists inexperienced users in the use of ML algorithms.