On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 11:59:00PM +0900, Michael Glaesemann wrote: > >Right, if you classify the information coming in, you can set controls > >over who sees it. What we don't do now is any kind of classification. > > This may be a bit off-the-wall, but I recall Joel Spolsky recently > writing about using Bayesian filtering to classify mail into groups > other than spam/ham. I wonder if there's any use for something like > that in this case. > > http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FogBugzII.html
No, definitely not. Pseudo-bayesian classification as used by the more optimistic spam-filtering folks is pretty crappy at the best of times, and it's really unusuable for more than 3-4 categories. There are natural language analysis techniques that'll do this sort of thing, but they're in the realms of research projects, not canned tools. Cheers, Steve ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq