Re: UNS: Re: crm filter cleanup on productive system

Ger Hobbelt <[email protected]>
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On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Ger Hobbelt <[email protected]> wrote:
> For completeness, here's how crm114 trains 'out of' instead of 'into':
> you can specify the training option <refute> (see QUICKREF.txt) with a
> classifier 'train' command: that's the signal crm114 needs to know you
> want it to train in a way which is saying 'this does /not/ belong in
> here', while regular training is a way to teach the classifier that
> 'this does belong in this category'.

For all of those who say: hey! vanilla mailfilter.cf and
mailtrainer.crm already /have/ <refute>, so what's he about?

Well, mailtrainer / mailfilter.cf has this (snippet):

# Set to empty // if you do not want mailtrainer to also 'refute'-train messages
# when initial (regular) training didn't deliver the desired result (yet).
#
# Default when not specified: SET.
#
#:do_refute_training: /SET/
:do_refute_training: //

but that ONLY means, when SET, mailtrainer will <refute> train after a
'regular' train operation when that regular train instruction didn't
produce the desirable result.
That's not double-sided training as winnow needs it: that classifier
performs best when you /always/ train both regular and <refute>. The
significant difference being 'always' versus 'only when' (which, by
the way, is 'rather seldom' for the usual test sets).


-- 
Met vriendelijke groeten / Best regards,

Ger Hobbelt

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