Matt Kettler wrote: > At 06:36 AM 5/16/2005, Ronan McGlue wrote: > >> what to do when bayes shows signs of poisoning??? >> those germal political mails are being flagged at Bayes_00 scores even >> though they are still hitting 20+ points. > > > First, that's not really a sign of poisoning. Poisoning involves a > deliberate attempt to evade your bayes. > > In this case, I doubt you've received much German email that was spam, > and even if you have probably none of it resembled these messages. > > What to do? > > Train. > > Most of the tokens in these messages are likely to be low-count for the > average person that doesn't speak german, so it shouldn't take long > before some sa-learn training will start raising their bayes scores.
Follow-up: I came in this morning and hand trained 4 of these messages. They now seem to be getting bayes scores over 80.
