Bayesian Filter Testing?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday July 1, 2003 @10:09PM from the verifying-new-spam-fighting-techniques dept.

pu33y asks: "Since the publication of Paul Graham's A Plan For Spam, several programs that perform Bayesian filtering having become available, including CRM114 and Bogofilter. But missing is any serious testing to see how they perform in relation to themselves and to other, non-Bayesian filters.Searching Google has turned up nothing and when I asked Paul Graham, he was unaware of any such testing, as well. Can anyone point to any such testing or provide the results of their own personal experiences with Bayesian filters?"

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Online repository needed by sam+the+lurker · 2003-07-02 00:43 · Score: 5, Interesting

Ideally, someone, probably an academic, should make a repository of spam available for testing. Software spam filters can say things like, "Correctly classified 99.9% of the email in the UCI spambase 1999-08-20 repository"

Something like say, the UCI Machine Learning Repository. In fact, look at the UCI spambaseA couple of problems with the UCI spambase. Too old / out of date. And too small.

I looks like there is a more recent community effort going on over a SpamArchive

Looks like you should have googled.