From: Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Paul Graham on fighting SPAM
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 12:50:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m38z33xgun.fsf@ID-87814.user.dfncis.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3sn1bjtc4.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu>
prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) wrote:
>> There is a research field known as "information filtering" or
>> "(automatic) text classification" or "text categorization". I don't
>> know the details of the theory, but folks in that community are
>> speaking of "naive Bayes classifiers" as one of the ways to do it --
>> maybe that's similar to his approach.
>
> Sounds like it. Anyone know if this (or another) method generalizes
> to more than two categories (spam/nonspam)? If so, it could be used
> for all mail splitting. We wouldn't have to manually craft split
> rules; we'd just seed a new group with the mails we have so far that
> belong there, and their contents would let the computer guess which
> new mails belong with them.
[...]
Cool! I wonder if this technique could be abused to get a more
sophisticated adaptive scoring, too ...
-- Oliver
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-19 10:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-16 17:10 Danny Siu
2002-08-17 19:43 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-08-19 5:44 ` Paul Jarc
2002-08-19 8:53 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-08-21 1:14 ` news
2002-08-27 23:03 ` Nathan J. Williams
2002-08-19 10:50 ` Oliver Scholz [this message]
2002-08-19 11:06 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-08-19 14:55 ` Alex Schroeder
2002-08-19 17:09 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-08-19 14:12 ` Email filing Scott A Crosby
2002-09-05 16:00 ` clemens fischer
2002-12-29 22:35 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-08-19 9:23 ` Paul Graham on fighting SPAM Alex Schroeder
2002-08-19 11:29 ` Ted Zlatanov
2002-08-19 15:09 ` Alex Schroeder
2002-08-19 16:23 ` Ted Zlatanov
2002-08-19 22:22 ` Alex Schroeder
2002-08-20 7:42 ` Alex Schroeder
2002-08-20 12:00 ` Ted Zlatanov
2002-08-22 2:21 ` Alex Schroeder
2002-08-22 16:32 ` Ted Zlatanov
2002-08-22 16:57 ` Ted Zlatanov
2002-08-22 17:57 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-08-22 18:42 ` Ted Zlatanov
2002-08-22 19:59 ` Alex Schroeder
2002-08-22 20:07 ` Alex Schroeder
2002-08-22 20:54 ` Ted Zlatanov
2002-08-26 21:55 ` Alex Schroeder
2002-08-26 23:19 ` Alex Schroeder
2002-08-28 6:40 ` Piers Cawley
2002-08-28 18:44 ` Alex Schroeder
2002-08-29 2:46 ` Ted Zlatanov
2002-08-19 17:09 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-08-19 22:19 ` Alex Schroeder
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