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运用贝叶斯网编的一个识别垃圾邮件的程序

Subject: eskimo snow

david prager branner ask : > there be talk again on the linguist list about the " great eskimo snow > hoax " . i may be imagine thing , but the people who talk about this > never seem to be specialist in eskimo language . i would like to hear > from an inuit or tlingit specialist on just what the snow situation > really be in these language . . . . geoffrey k . pullum , in _ the great eskimo vocabulary hoax _ ( chicago , 1991 ) , pp . 168-171 , report the result of his consultation with anthony woodbury , a bona fide expert on yupik eskimo , and provide the follow statement for use at cocktail party : " let it be know that professor anthony woodbury ( department of linguistic , university of texa , austin , texa 78712 ) be prepare to endorse the claim that the central alaskan yupik eskimo language have about a dozen word ( even a couple of dozen if you be fairly liberal about what you count ) for refer to snow and to relate natural phenomenon , event , or behavior . " this be , he add , " not remarkably different in size from the list in english . " - - victor gollum the society for the study of the indigenous language of the america gollav @ axe . humboldt . edu