[Spambayes] Mail classifiers, training sets and technical doc s

Diffenderfer, Randy randy.diffenderfer at eds.com
Mon Dec 30 01:24:44 EST 2002


> In addition to (naive) Bayesian
>classifiers, there of course exist more. For example, a classifier that
>has been around for a while, but has only just begun to be viable (do to
>new training techniques) is the Support Vector Machine (SVM). In its
>basic form, this is a binary classifier (though multi-class problems can
>be handled as well nowadays). Theoretically, one could of course also
>use a very simple and crude (k-) Nearest Neighbor classifier, though one
>would need a large training set for this to work well.

IIRC the words "Support Vector Machine" appear in some patent that Microsoft
has on classification technology.  Reference to it is in the spambayes
archives somewhere. :-)

Needless to say, building a system based upon something that M$ has a
patented interest in is probably a losing proposition.




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