On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 11:25:20PM +0000, Niall O Broin wrote:
> The thought occurs then that perhaps some kind of addition to a Bayesian
> filter is necessary, so that if a message has above a certain threshold of
> unknown words, it scores highly. Even better might be to compare every word
> against a dictionary, and again give high score to a mail which contained
> lots of non-dictionary words. Lots of problems with this, of course, not
> least being the CPU cost of such an approach.
Bayesian is not for the CPU-shy in any event :) Much bigger problems
would be posed by those among us who write and recieve e-mail in
a variety of languages, sometimes even intersparsed :/ That and the
modern madness that is txt sp3k, now to be found in many peoples
daily e-mails :(
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