FW: FYI - Telephone Scam

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

On Tuesday 11 February 2003 11:56 am, dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 11:48:46AM -0500, David Kramer wrote:
> > > > Does anybody know if someody has written a logic filter for email
> > > > hoaxes? Would be interesting as they all seem to sound the same to
> > > > me.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, it would require the ability to parse English, a
> > > strong-AI condition.
> >
> > Actually, yes.  A friend of mine wrote one.
> > http://crm114.sourceforge.net/
>
> Sorry.
>
> As Crash will be the first to tell you, the CRM-114 Discriminator
> doesn't understand English, and can't parse English. All it does is
> match word-probability against the existing corpus-profile.
>
> In other words, there are several approaches which will work, but none
> of them are "logic filter"s that analyze the logic of the statements
> made.
>
> -dsr- (who did some very minor debugging on it before it was released,
> or even named.)

OK, when he first started defining the product, he led me to believe that 
there was going to be new things in there, like basing rules on the relative 
space between words, and the order of phrases, that could be used for this 
purpose.  I realize that is not the same thing as AI.  Can they not be used 
for this purpose,  or are those features not in there?

-dsk- (who hosted the project for a while before he moved to sourceforge)

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