On 29/12/2008, Brian <[email protected]> wrote: > Using logistic regression we achieve 83% precision at 77% recall > with our model.* Compared to the rule-based methods that are currently > applied* > *in Wikipedia, our approach increases the F -Measure performance by 49% > while* > *being faster at the same time.*
In my experience and reasonably expert knowledge of spam fighting, these are not very good statistics. If they had achieved over 99% then I would have been impressed, with if they did that with even fewer false positives then I would have been thoroughly impressed. And I don't consider it either-or. We should fight spammers of all kinds with all techniques that work. -- -Ian Woollard We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. Life in a perfectly imperfect world would be much better. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
