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This reminds me of some of the spam filtering algorithms I've read about. You'd think that categorizing spam based on keywords (or sender IP, etc) would be use
by martian 18y ago
This reminds me of some of the spam filtering algorithms I've read about.
You'd think that categorizing spam based on keywords (or sender IP, etc) would be useful, but machine learning algorithms can pick up more subtle nuances of language patterns and act more effectively.
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1216017&jmp=cit&coll=GUIDE&dl=ACM http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1216017&jmp=cit...
- bluishgreen 18y agoIn addition it can pick up stuff that you never thought about as properties/clues for classification. PG has written about this in his spam posts.
- schtog 18y agoI made a simple spamfilter in Erlang based on the bayesian approach, works really well already with just a few spamemails.