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Any Neural Net code in Python? I want to filter out spam email

Romuald Texier rtexier at elikya.com
Thu Apr 19 05:35:59 EDT 2001 
Ken Seehof wrote:


> Excellent idea, Dan.  That's conveniently sidesteps the most difficult
> issue: getting the neural network to actually come up with linguistic
> rules.  Once an intelligent human specifies the set of rules, the neural
> net should have no difficulty coming up with an optimal non-linear
> function of pre-processed features (i.e. the "rules") to identify spam.
> Analysis of the weights after training will help remove rules that turn
> out to be irrelevant.


Wouldn't decision tree or other rule inference algorithms be more accurate 
than neural networks for that kind of machine learning ? Moreover, neural 
nets are "black box" : you do not get a logical rule set (that may be 
edited by humans or exchanged) but an ugly matrix of floats...

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Romuald Texier
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