From: "Booker C.Bense" <bbense+comp.lang.ruby.Nov.02.06@...>
Date: 2006-11-03T04:20:16+09:00
Subject: Re: bayesian classifiers in ruby?

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In article <2d81dedb0611021036t5e47d35ex55c294e634873b59@mail.gmail.com>,
Giles Bowkett <gilesb@gmail.com> wrote:
>> As long as you analyze natural language, both seem suited, although with
>> different degrees of complexity under the hood, both have a very simple
>> interface: define a category and train it. Then a guess interface to
>> evaluate candidates.
>
>I'm hoping to develop yet another spam filter. in that sense I can
>only say I'm sort of analyzing natural language. Not all of it is
>natural language, some of it is code. In the Paul Graham thing where
>he came up with this idea, if I remember right, he said that a font
>tag with the color red turned out to be the single most reliable
>indicator of spam. Obviously in HTML e-mail there are going to be
>similar trends. However if the tokenizer is the only problem that may
>be something I can change without too much stress.
>

Long ago, I wrote an interface to the ifile program and I use
that in my spam/email filtering. ifile is abandomware at the
moment. I think I posted it on the ruby mailing list at ome
point, you might try searching for it. 


_ Booker C. Bense 


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