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Re: [LUG] Bayesian filtering - other than spam

 

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Simon Waters wrote:
> Wondered if anyone has seen, or used Bayesian filtering for other
> classifications of documents other than spam?
>
> I guess "not wanted" is often equivalent to "spam", but it occurred to
> me that you could train it for any criteria you want, such as
> "interesting" or "well written" etc.

Not entirely sure if it was Bayesian, but I think they've used it to
classify documents written by someone, e.g. to see whether a recently
discovered 17-th century play could have been written by Shakespeare.

In all these cases, Markovian discrimination might give better results though.

Martijn.

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