Re: adaptive word scoring

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>]

Sean Lynch <seanl@Internex.NET> writes:

> If we only use the articles in the current summary buffer, our
> estimates of word probabilities would vary wildly depending on the
> number of articles, day of the week, direction of the wind, etc.  So I
> think that we should probably keep the counts in some sort of
> database, unless someone has a better idea.

Right.  Well, this is something that'll have to wait until Mamey
Sapote Gnus in any case, so instead of doing anything about it myself,
I'll just wait for somebody who knows something about probabilities
and that, like, *math* stuff to program this.  :-)

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