[1176] in Humor
HUMOR (sorta): Smokey
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Thu Nov 2 15:10:10 1995
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1995 15:05:08 EST
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
The fact that such a system was developed at all speaks volumes
about the number of net.weenies we're getting these days...
-Drew
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 11:20:52 -0500
Subject: Ellen Spertus: Smokey: Automatic Flame Recognition 11/7
Smokey: Automatic Flame Recognition
Ellen Spertus (ellens@ai.mit.edu)
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Massachussets Institute of Technology
Time: 4-5pm November 7, 1995
Location: 8th Floor Playroom
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Massachussets Institute of Technology
Unwanted flames can be both a source of frustration and a waste of time for
Internet users. I describe a prototype system for flame recognition, Smokey.
Smokey makes use of a parser and regular expressions to apply 45 rules to
input sentences. A decision tree based on the scoring of 720 training
messages is then used to predict whether or not a test message is a flame.
Smokey is able to identify over 50% of flames (relative to human ratings)
while misclassifying less than 2% of non-flames.
Host: John Mallery
