bogoutil output

Boris 'pi' Piwinger 3.14 at logic.univie.ac.at
Mon Jan 26 13:57:26 CET 2004


David Relson wrote:

>> Well, it does not give the counts. But if this is considered
>> enough, we could well delete the -p option in bogoutil in
>> our cleanup.
> 
> -p is useful for finding a token's score.  The fact that it uses the
> default robs and robx values does, indeed, affect the score. 

So what is that score useful for if people don't use the
default (which they should not).

> Remember
> that the robs and robx parameters are used for biasing the score of
> unknown (or infrequently trained) tokens to improve the overall score of
> a message.  Also as a token's counts increase, the effect of robs and
> robx lessens.

All correct, but why does that make a misleading valued useful?

pi




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