We are evaluating our next move and are running preliminary tests on spam comments (spaments?). We only have a few corporas to test on and it looks good on those (I’ll get back with exact performance later).

We want your blog comments for a good cause

Following our own guidelines we are looking for more data to test on. If you have a WordPress installation you can help us out by:

1. Log into phpMyAdmin
2. Select your WordPress database
3. Click on the table ‘wp_comments’
4. Click on ‘Export’
5. Select the XML format
6. Check ‘Save to file’ and click ‘Run’
7. Attach the exported XML to an e-mail for contact AT uclassify DOT com

We will not publish any comments without asking you for permission first. Also you will be credited with your name and blog when we return with the classifier results for your comments.

Thank you!

Since we released the beta version a couple a weeks ago we have seen a few websites pop up building on the uClassify techonology. This is very encouraging for us! Right now we are trying to reach out to more users who want to use our classifier API.

We have spent a lot of time on development of our service - making it parallel - robust - low on memory - fast etc. This is what we are really good at. The remaining part which is as important - to reach out to users - advertise ourselves and being seen on the right places is not our sharpest skill.

Besides writing this blog and posting the uClassify link on a couple of sites we haven’t done much to show our muscles - yet! We thought that we perhaps would use our own API ourselves - that is probably an easier way to create some buzz! We have a couple of ideas make us seen (feel free to use these ideas for yourself):

Build an Anti Spam Comment Plugin for WordPress?

We are quite confident that we could do really well as the classifier engine has shown really good results in Cactus Spam Filter. This would compete or be a good complement to Akismet, Defensio and similar. Is there anyone who needs another blog spam comment filter?

Build a Spam Blog Filter?

This seems to be a problem for many blog communities, building a splogs (spam blogs) filter could give us some good attention. What would be really nice is if somebody could provide us with dynamic training data on slogs and blogs - then we could automate the training process and find the undetected spam! Anyone who want to donate their spam?

Implement a JSON API for uClassify?

Building a JSON API would not only broaden our API (only XML API right now) it would also let users use our classification service via Yahoo! Pipes. Yahoo Pipes let’s you combine different RSS flows into one and use external web services (via JSON) - which is madly cool.

Language Detection - talar du svenska?

We already have a language detection classifier (not published yet) that only needs training data refinement (removal of noise such as English words in the Filipino class). It supports 40 languages. This would be fairly simple and could give us some buzz.

Ideas, anyone!

Do you have any ides? Let us know - or use the uClassify API to create your own classifier (spam filter, language detection or whatever comes to your mind).