Any Neural Net code in Python? I want to filter out spam email

Mikkel Rasmussen footech at get2net.dk
Thu Apr 19 18:30:32 EDT 2001


Remco Gerlich <scarblac at pino.selwerd.nl> wrote in message
news:slrn9dtfs6.nbc.scarblac at pino.selwerd.nl...
> Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote in comp.lang.python:
> > There may not exist a vector of feature weights that performs
> > perfectly, of course.  What one generally wants is a vector of
> > feature weights that _optimizes_ some performance score.
>
> Or a set of vectors. Probably a set of vectors that optimize some score.
> Something is spam if one|enough of the vectors trigger (pick your
favorite).
>
> "A learning approach to personalized information filtering" by Beerud
Dilip
> Sheth (<http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/sheth94learning.html>) is his MSc
thesis
> where he uses genetic algorithms to optimize a set of vectors for
> information filtering.
>

The thesis is available at:
http://agents.www.media.mit.edu/groups/agents/publications/sheth-thesis.pdf

There about the author here (but not much):
http://www.dfki.de/~allen/People/Stu/Sheth/


Mikkel Rasmussen








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