Bayesian spam filtering library for Python

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Baishampayan Ghose picture Baishampayan Ghose · Feb 17, 2009 · Viewed 9.2k times · Source

I am looking for a Python library which does Bayesian Spam Filtering. I looked at SpamBayes and OpenBayes, but both seem to be unmaintained (I might be wrong).

Can anyone suggest a good Python (or Clojure, Common Lisp, even Ruby) library which implements Bayesian Spam Filtering?

Thanks in advance.

Clarification: I am actually looking for a Bayesian Spam Classifier and not necessarily a spam filter. I just want to train it using some data and later tell me whether some given data is spam. Sorry for any confusion.

Answer

Daniel picture Daniel · Feb 17, 2009

Do you want spam filtering or Bayesian classification?

For Bayesian classification there are a number of Python modules. I was just recently reviewing Orange which looks very impressive. R has a number of Bayesian modules. You can use Rpy to hook into R.

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