Definitions
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- noun
Electronic mail that is notspam (junk mail); legitimatee-mail .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The spams are scoring higher and the nonspam is scoring even lower.
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Windows Mail is a mild reworking of Outlook Express whose big new feature is a spam filter that in my tests flagged nonspam as spam and vice versa an unacceptable 10% of the time.
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If you were doing Bayesian filtering in a situation where the ratio of spam to nonspam was consistently very high or
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P (nonspam) are both .5, they cancel out and you can remove them from the formula.
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One is simply that they trained their filter on very little data: 160 spam and 466 nonspam mails.
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Most randomly chosen words turn out not to have occurred in either spam or nonspam mail, and therefore have neutral spam probabilities.
So Far, So Good 2003
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Arguably, these are neither my spam nor my nonspam mail.
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I do this by counting the occurrences of tokens in the nonspam corpus double.
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A token that occurs disproportionately often in your nonspam mail, like the name of a friend, will count as much toward decreasing the spam probability as a token like "cash" would to increasing it.
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Bayesian filters calculate spam probabilities based on the spam and nonspam mail each user receives.
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