Closed
Bug 235076
Opened 20 years ago
Closed 16 years ago
implement baysian bookmark filing
Categories
(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)
Firefox
Bookmarks & History
Tracking
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RESOLVED
WONTFIX
People
(Reporter: bugzilla.10.magnum3065, Assigned: p_ch)
Details
User-Agent: Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8 The new add bookmark dialog in Firefox is nice, however I'd like to see improved bookmark filing. I'd like to see the Baysian filtering from Thunderbird integrated into Firefox, so that it could learn from your bookmark filing and provide the most likely options for the folders to file the current page under. Ideally, filing a bookmark in a sub-folder would also produce an effect on the learning of the parent folder as well. For example, if I go to file my first bookmark on Python programming, it may be similar to bookmarks in Programming/C++ and Programming/Java, but not particularly biased towards either subfolder, so the parent folder would be a good suggestion. Now, I believe that similar suggestions have been made for email filing in Thunderbird, so I imagine that this kind of thing will probably be worked on there first, but I believe that it may be good to keep this suggestion in mind, so that design decisions made there would allow for the message filing to be ported over to bookmarks as well. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Comment 1•20 years ago
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I think you're really overestimating the capabilities of Bayesian filtering. The junk mail filtering is basically determining "junk/not junk" whereas what you want is "predict from the contents of the page where I'm going to file it" This is not even close to practical to consider now, marking WONTFIX. If someone comes up with some form of artificial logic that could be easily adapted, I could see that being considered, but bayesian filtering is far too simple to be an accurate predictor.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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Comment 2•20 years ago
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Wow, my suggestion got shot down pretty quickly. Let me clarify a bit here. Bayesian filtering is not some binary thing. It doesn't simply say "spam"/"not-spam". Bayesian filtering is simply a way to modify your assumptions based on new information. While the most common uses of it have been in simple spam filtering solutions it is capable of more than this. Maybe you should have a look at the discussion about this for message filing on the Thunderbird bug report: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181866 There's already a patch for Thunderbird that will file messages into appropriate folders based on Bayesian learning. Also, what I suggested is not something where getting 99% accuracy, or false-positives is really an issue. I expect to still have some interaction when filing a bookmark. This is simply a question of "Does my preferred folder show up in the 5 item combo box, or do I have to expand the dialog and dig through my bookmark tree?" I don't really think this "top 5" is out of the reach of Baysian filtering. I mean even if I happened to be a herpetologist as well as a programmer, a page containing the work "python" would probably get a pretty good rating for "Programming/Python" and "Reptilia/Squamata/Boidae" (though "Humour/Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam" might make a reasonable choice as well <0.7854 wink>) Making the choice between these several options in the combo-box is much preferrable to looking through my tree of bookmarks. This may not be an immediate priority, but I think it's reasonable to keep this suggestion in as an "enhancement" in order to keep it on the developers' minds. I'm going to look at the Thunderbird patches a bit more and see what it would take to incorporate something similar into Firefox. More resources: Message filing for Pop email: http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Text classification Java library: http://classifier4j.sourceforge.net/ Looking at categorizing Blog entries: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/11/19/udell.html
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: WONTFIX → ---
Comment 3•20 years ago
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If someone contributes this, great. The bug you mentioned looks promising, but this is something that's a far-future type of thing, and I don't think it'd be a priority at any forseeable time. If someone wants to try it, it might be useful. On the other hand, I use terribly non-descriptive folder names so it'd be less valuable to me...
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Updated•20 years ago
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Summary: baysian bookmark filing → implement baysian bookmark filing
Comment 4•18 years ago
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sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change
QA Contact: mconnor → bookmarks
Comment 5•16 years ago
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Automatic filing is much less important now that we're moving to a much more search/tagging driven interface. Intelligent tagging suggestions would be great, but not part of this bug.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago → 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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