Your standards are far too high. Rules + automatic classification + human eyes converges on 100%.
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Ian Woollard <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > -- You have successfully failed! _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
