[Debtags-devel] Re: Do we need better documentation about our subsections?

[Gustavo Franco]

On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 12:49:26 +0200, Enrico Zini <zinie@cs.unibo.it> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 10:18:17AM +0200, Benjamin Mesing wrote:
> 
> > through them and look which one is worth the download. Generally I give
> > the libary section only a quick glance without completely excluding it -
> > this is something not possible with the debtags approach. There I could
> > either exclude them or include. But while the first would hide them
> > completely, the second would not make them appear in a seperate branch.
> 
> We have Special::auto-inst-parts which could do this; however, that
> would need some interface improvement, like being able to exclude some
> facets when doing grouping and branching, but still use them for
> filtering.
> 
> > As I am currently learning for my artificial intelligence exams it came
> > to my mind that perhaps something from there could help us tagging. It
> > could be fed with the control files of packages and spit out a tagging.
> > It is only an idea and I don't know much about AI in use, i.e. if this
> > would do any good, but to me it seems like a task predestined for
> > AI-System. I guess there are a lot of people out there who actually know
> > AI. Perhaps we should ask on debtags-devel about this?
> 
> Mornfall suggested a very smart cute interesting idea here: training a
> bayesian filter with the existing package metadata -> tags associations,
> and then try to use them to infer new tags for non tagged packages.  The
> result may either be entertaining or useful, and in both cases it would
> be worth trying. :)

I said the "same" to Thaddeus, btw i'm not a expert but it seems that
crm114 can be used to try. Anyone?

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