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Tuesday, November 11, 2003

Boosting Trees applied to spam filtering?

I don't know what Boosting Trees are, but here are two papers that claim that this method will work better than Naive Bayesian methods of spam filtering. They're both called Boosting Trees for Anti-Spam Email Filtering (here's the second). I think they're essentially the same paper, though the formatting's different.

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Keith Gaughan (http://www.talideon.com/) wrote:

Interesting... I've mentioned it to a buddy of mine who's developing spam filtering software.

∴ Keith Gaughan | 12-Nov-2003 8:25am est | http://www.talideon.com/ | #3246

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