Re: [sip-clf] anomaly detectors

Vijay Gurbani <vkg@alcatel-lucent.com> Sun, 26 July 2009 12:45 UTC

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Subject: Re: [sip-clf] anomaly detectors
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Hadriel Kaplan wrote:
> It's not that I don't think CLF has value - it's the central claim
> that's it's for "anomaly detectors" that makes me wince.  Obviously
> it can be used for some anomaly purposes - just that we shouldn't be
> saying that's its main purpose/use-case, because it's not good enough
> for it, imho.

I agree; I don't think it was claimed that anomaly detection is the
main purpose of SIP CLF.  It is but one possible use case if we
were to have a nicely digested information in the form of a CLF.

Thanks,

- vijay
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