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Re: [LUG] Bayesian filtering - other than spam

 

At Wed 11 Feb 2009 09:54:19 UTC, Martijn Grooten  
<sweetwatergeek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Anthony Williams wrote:
>> A few years ago I worked for a patent information company, and I had
>> to write a program that used Bayesian filtering to categorize patents
>> (e.g. chemical, mechanical, industrial, etc., but more more nuanced).
>
> I'd expect Bayesian filtering to work almost faultlessly in such
> cases

It did work very well. The cases that it got wrong were the fine  
nuances (is it /this/ subtype of organic chemical process patents, or  
/that/ one?)

Anthony
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