Select Announment

I have released the first version of Select, a mail classification
program that I have written.

It is similar to ifile, but is more configurable.
Some differences from ifile are:
- Client/server model
  There is a daemon that does all classification. Clients communicate
  with the daemon through a local socket.
- Plug-in based classification algorithms
  Classifiers are dynamically loaded. Some of the available classifiers are
  Naive Bayes, Rocchio, Perceptron, "sender" and "thread" classifiers.
- Language dependent processing
  Can choose different locale, stopwords and stemming algorithms
  depending on the language of the mail. A built-in language identifier
  can guess the language if none is specified.

There are three clients: one that is similar to ifile, a graphical one
for Evolution Mail, and a testing program that can be used to generate
performance data.

This version of Select is not intended for practical use.
It was originally written for research purposes and is missing essential
features. Furthermore I don't claim that all the features that it does
have are useful in practice. For example, the language dependent
processing did not do much difference in my tests.
Notable deficiencies in this version are:
- Saving and loading of databases is not fully implemented.
- The clients, except for the testing program, are very primitive.
- There is no feature selection.

This is not an attempt to create a competitor to ifile. I merely release
this in case someone might find some use for it. I don't know if I will
continue developing it.

Select can be downloaded from
http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~d97-miy/select/

--
Mikael Ylikoski


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