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Re: Anyone want to write an "intelligent" mail filter?

• Posted by "Greg Haberek" <g.haberek at comcast.net> Nov 05, 2003
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if you want to design a "smart" filter based on the body of an email, you'd
need at least the following:

1.    ability to recognize and strip HTML
2.    a dictionary of words with certain attributes of each word (noun,
verb, adjective, preposition, article)
3.    ability to parse for "meaningful" sentences or sentence structures. at
this point you'd be writing a grammar checker similar to that found in MS
Word. You'd look for parts of a sentence and/or groups of words that match
no given pattern.

for example:
    "i have a whole sentence in quotes"
        "i have"  = noun + verb = simple sentence
        "a whole sentence" = article + adjective + noun = sentence object
        "in quotes" = preposition + noun (plural) = prepstional phrase

    "indecisive constitute dakar summitry ajax beaver"
        "indecisive constitute" = adjective + verb = not a sentence (should
be adverb + verb or adjective + noun)
        "dakar summitry" = noun + noun = not a sentence (makes no sense)
        "ajax beaver" = noun + noun = not a sentence (makes no sense)

as you can see there are specifc patterns to the english language. anyone
with an extensive knowledge of the stucture of the language, and a few
english books (such as myself) could write such a filter. i however, do not
have the time, as my current projects are quite consuming with my time. i am
willing to lend my assistance to anyone who may need it. i have taken quite
a few english classes and 'advanced composition' classes.

~Greg