RE: [Classifier4j-devel] Bayesian Case Study

[Nick L. <nl...@es...>]

> > As a general point I'm not sure you are really going to 
> find Bayesian
> > classification a great match for deciding what kind of a 
> document something
> > is, simply because I don't think you can fairly compare the 
> scores documents
> > get in various categories and say if a score is higher in 
> one than the other
> > it is a better match.
> > 
> > For instance, if you have two categories (say Tax and 
> Investments), then you
> > can't say that the word "Tax" in a document means that it 
> is not about
> > "Investments".
> 
> If this is true, I would then ask you how and why POPFile is 
> using a Bayesian 
> algorithm to do exactly this?  Have they deviated somehow 
> from a true Bayesian 
> calculation?
> 

Hmm.. that is a fair point. I should really do some experimentation.


> The vector stuff sounds really cool too!  Can you have that 
> working by next 
> week?  :)
> 

Yeah, if someone offers to pay :)