subject-tagging test results

[Greg Louis]

On 20030214 (Fri) at 0806:39 -0500, Greg Louis wrote:

> I ran a test...

> Speaking of parameters, Robinson's x in this experiment was 0.415 and s
> was 5.0e-7.  The spam cutoffs determined from the nonspam test corpora
> were quite high, ranging from 0.991 to 0.998; that reflects the fact
> that the nonspam corpora included quite a few spammy-looking
> newsletters, so the high cutoffs are needed to avoid false positives. 
> Even so, we caught up to 96.5% of spam -- not that bad a result.

Forgot (because I never use any other method) to mention that this
experiment was done with the Robinson-Fisher classification algorithm.
 
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