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At Wed 11 Feb 2009 09:54:19 UTC, Martijn Grooten <sweetwatergeek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Anthony Williams wrote: >> A few years ago I worked for a patent information company, and I had >> to write a program that used Bayesian filtering to categorize patents >> (e.g. chemical, mechanical, industrial, etc., but more more nuanced). > > I'd expect Bayesian filtering to work almost faultlessly in such > cases It did work very well. The cases that it got wrong were the fine nuances (is it /this/ subtype of organic chemical process patents, or /that/ one?) Anthony -- Anthony Williams Author of C++ Concurrency in Action | http://www.manning.com/williams just::thread C++0x thread library | http://www.stdthread.co.uk Custom Software Development | http://www.justsoftwaresolutions.co.uk Just Software Solutions Ltd, Registered in England, Company Number 5478976. Registered Office: 15 Carrallack Mews, St Just, Cornwall, TR19 7UL, UK -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html