Bayes improvement

2010-03-25 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
Having this in the bayes db: 335424 nspam 144915 nham 129892 ntokens and a fairly good hit rate by Bayes in detecting both spam and ham, how would you improve Bayes scores? In example, would you increase every bayes scores by a fixed percentage, or instead would you

Re: Bayes improvement

2010-03-25 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 25.3.2010 10:14, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: Having this in the bayes db: 335424 nspam 144915 nham 129892 ntokens and a fairly good hit rate by Bayes in detecting both spam and ham, how would you improve Bayes scores? In example, would you increase every bayes

RE: Bayes improvement

2010-03-25 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
I have increased BAYES_00 and BAYES_99. It seems that those are pretty good and cause no FP's, but BAYES_05 may sometimes be spam. I have BAYES_99 as a killer, it has 5 points, sending the mail to a 'probable spam' alone. Ah, that is even narrower and probably less prone to misclassification.

Re: Bayes improvement

2010-03-25 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 25.3.2010 20:30, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: I have increased BAYES_00 and BAYES_99. It seems that those are pretty good and cause no FP's, but BAYES_05 may sometimes be spam. I have BAYES_99 as a killer, it has 5 points, sending the mail to a 'probable spam' alone. Ah, that is even