Andrew Talbot wrote: > Well, I certainly hope someone offers to help! > > If only to say "there is no default database."
There is no default database. :-) > As we've spoken about off-list, my boss is being very particular about the > deployment of Bayes, and it sounds like one of his caveats is that we don't > start from a blank database. But you do start from a blank database. That is why it needs to learn from a significant number of spam and non-spam, 200 each, before it will produce meaningful results. > For the record, I agree with your logic completely ...... And I hate to say > stupid things like this, but it doesn't even matter to me if the tokens in > the default database are useless at this point, or if there are only 20 of > them. I just need to get this deployed so it can start learning. If you deploy it then it will immediately start learning. Learning is not limited by having an empty database. Only classification is limited until learning has occurred. Bob
