Re: Is Bayes Really Necessary?

[Joe Zitnik]

I have autolearn off.  I have been burned by it twice. >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 5/26/2005 10:33 AM >>> On Thu, 26 May 2005, Joe Zitnik wrote: > I think points can be made for both sides of the argument.  The thing > that makes bayes different, is that a well trained bayes database is > specific to your environment.  If you're a law firm, your learned ham is > going to be heavy in legalese, medical related org, heavy in that > terminology.  Because spam and ham is learned specific to your > environment, it can make a big difference. > > >>> Jake Colman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 5/26/2005 10:08 AM >>> > > Given the rather complete set of rules that ship with SA and which can > expanded with SARE, does bayes learning really help?  Won't the rules > catch > pretty much everything anyway? Bayes definitely helps, but auto-learn can cause problems.  Perhaps a better question would be, "Is autolearn really neccessary?" James Smallacombe              PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor [EMAIL PROTECTED]                                http://3.am =========================================================================