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Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:58:13 +0200
From: Baruch Even <baruch@ev-en.org>
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To: Karl Wiberg <kha@treskal.com>
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Cc: notmuch <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: [notmuch] Notmuch's search view sucks
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Karl Wiberg wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 1:29 AM, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:
>> And a step beyond that would support different languages for
>> different emails, but that sounds like something "hard" to identify.
> 
> But probably not as hard as identifying spam. It could probably be
> done with a simple Bayesian filter counting word frequencies---but
> it'd be much better if somebody else had already solved the problem,
> since this smells suspiciously like something that ought to be a
> separate project and put in a library ... does anyone know if such a
> project already exists? I know Google can do it ...
> 
> It'd be very cool to have notmuch automatically tag messages according
> to what language they're in.

What we should have is an interface to run an external program to 
classify a message when it's newly introduced and another that runs when 
tags are changed so that machine learning can be made to work when the 
user changes tags.

Baruch