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Create and manage trainable classifiers

Create and manage trainable classifiers

Trainable classifiers bring the power of machine learning to data classification. The idea is simple, you might know a certain set of documents or share a concept, like they're all resumes or they contain insider trading information, but it's hard to come up with a set of specific keywords or patterns that definitively mark them. With a trainable classifier, you let the computer learn the distinguishing features by itself. So how does it work? You feed it examples of the content you're interested in, say, you want a classifier for Project X confidential documents, you'll gather a bunch of documents that are definitely Project X sensitive documents, and these are the positive examples, and also documents that are definitely not Project X and these are negative examples. The classifier training process will analyze these sets and build a model that can look at a new document and decide if it's similar to the positives or not. This is especially useful for unstructured data where…

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