[Crm114-discuss] N-way classifiers

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Hey all,

CRM114 newb here.  Originally looked at CRM114 somewhere around
BlameEasterBunny and was scared away.  I've recently come into the need
for a non-email text classifier and delved back into the world of CRM114 -
and  very glad I did.

This is heady stuff and my mind is swimming with the possibilities. 
'Twould be a shame to shackle such power to simple email filtering, IMHO. 
Even though spam filtering appears by far to be the most common use, I was
disgusted to find CRM114 in the Mail ports on FreeBSD instead of Textproc.
 :)

After wading through "CRM114 Revealed" I happily noticed the mention that
some of the classifiers support N-way choices.  Prior to reading this, I
assumed all classifiers were two-way.  I envisioned a tree that would
allow for N classifications by doing up to hundreds of binary
classifications in series.  It appears like that method is unnecessary.

Here's my question:  which of the seven classifiers included with CRM114
BlameDalkey support N-way?  I've made some guesses, but a lot of this
stuff is yet a ways above me.

BTW, this info would be a nice addition to the classifier summary chart on
page 171 on the book.

Happy CRMming!

Brad Waite