From: "Williams, Chris" <Chris.Williams@...>
Date: 2005-04-11T23:47:21+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN| Bayesian Classification for Ruby



> >> I would like to announce a new module called Classifier for Ruby.
> >> With it, you can do things like:
> >> ===
> >> require 'classifier'
> >> b = Classifier::Bayes.new 'Interesting', 'Uninteresting' # supports
> >> any
> >> number of categories of any name
> >> b.train_interesting "here are some good words. I hope you love
them"
> >> b.train_uninteresting "here are some bad words, I hate you"
> >> b.classify "I hate bad words and you" # returns 'Uninsteresting'
> >> ===
> >
> > This is wonderful and might make a nice addition to Rails software
> > that already offers manual tagging and/or categorization which is
> > quite a common thing to have. Perhaps it would be a good idea to
also
> > announce it over there.
> >
> > I don't know if this is already possible, but b.train(:interesting,
> > ...) would make an interesting alternative API which would be more
> > flexible.
> >
> 
> +1. I'd like to see a more general #train API as well, but that's a
> minor quibble. Thanks, Lucas, for this lib! I've been wanting
something
> like this for a while now. :)
> 
> - Jamis
> 

+1 for me as well. I actually just started writing a Bayesian Classifier
yesterday, so this should save me some work!

Chris