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CRM114 Gets 99.984% Accuracy

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

Quote from Bill’s website:
“Current statistics:
For the month of April 2005, I receieved over 10,000 emails. About 60% were spam. I had ZERO classification errors. ZERO.
As of Feb 1 through March 1, 2004, 8738 messages (4240 spam, 4498 nonspam), and my total error rate was ONE. That translates to better than 99.984% accuracy, which […]

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TREC 2005

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

The Spam TREC attempted to build a “gold standard” corpus of spam and ham and then rigourously test a wide variety of spam filters (all from universities or open source projects) against the corpus (or corpuses since there were four, although only one will be made public and consists of over 92,000 categorized messages drawn […]

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