Create Intelligent E-mail Filters with JavaMail and Classifier4j
Tired of the limitations and annoying false positives with commercial spam filters? Classifier4J is an open source Java library that will let you build custom applications that read e-mails and other types of text documents, separating the wheat from the chaff exactly the way you intend.
by Laurence Moroney
September 23, 2004
s more and more information fills our lives and clutters our inboxes, our ability to effectively read, filter, and process this information manually declines hand-in-hand. There is only so much time that we can spend at it. The trend shows no signs of abating, despite the best efforts of many individuals and companies in the industry. By all accounts, things are going to get worse.
Enter intelligent filters, ones that not only look for certain keywords that don't need to be reprinted here, but that also attempt to determine the sentiment of text. In other words, filters that can read an e-mail and statistically figure out what it is about and whether it interests you or not based on a set of parameters that you define. Many modern spam filters do this, training themselves on the mail that you specify is or isn't spam. These tools are getting better by the day but they aren't foolproof. For example, false positives are a frequent problem.
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s more and more information fills our lives and clutters our inboxes, our ability to effectively read, filter, and process this information manually declines hand-in-hand. There is only so much time that we can spend at it. The trend shows no signs of abating, despite the best efforts of many individuals and companies in the industry. By all accounts, things are going to get worse.
