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+Ankusa is a Naive Bayes classifier in Ruby that uses Hadoop's HBase for storage.  Because it uses HBase as a backend, the training corpus can be many terabytes in size.
+
+== Installation
+First, install hbaserb:
+  git clone git://github.com/bmuller/hbaserb.git
+  cd hbaserb
+  gem build hbaserb.gemspec && gem install hbaserb
+
+Then, install ankusa:
+  git clone git://github.com/livingsocial/ankusa.git
+  cd ankusa
+  gem build ankusa.gemspec && gem install ankusa
+
+== Basic Usage
+  require 'rubygems'
+  require 'ankusa'
+  require 'hbaserb'
+
+  # connect to HBase 
+  client = HBaseRb::Client.new 'localhost'
+
+  c = Classifier.new client
+  c.train :spam, "This is some spammy text"
+  c.train :good, "This is not the bad stuff"
+
+  # This will return the most likely class (as symbol)
+  puts c.classify "This is some spammy text"
+
+  # This will return Hash with classes as keys and 
+  # membership probability as values
+  puts c.classes "This is some spammy text"
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+Gem::Specification.new do |s|
+  s.name = "ankusa"
+  s.version = "0.0.1"
+  s.authors = ["Brian Muller"]
+  s.date = %q{2010-11-29}
+  s.description = "Naive Bayes classifier with HBase storage"
+  s.summary = "Naive Bayes classifier in Ruby that uses Hadoop's HBase for storage"
+  s.email = "brian.muller@livingsocial.com"
+  s.files = [
+    "lib/ankusa.rb",
+    "lib/ankusa/classifier.rb",
+  ]
+  s.homepage = "https://github.com/livingsocial/ankusa"
+  s.require_paths = ["lib"]
+  s.rubygems_version = "1.3.5"
+  s.add_dependency('hbaserb', '>= 0.0.1')
+  s.add_dependency('stemmer', '>= 1.0.1')
+end
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+$:.unshift File.dirname(__FILE__)
+require 'ankusa/classifier'
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+require 'stemmer'
+
+module Ankusa
+
+  class Classifier
+    def initialize(hbase_client)
+      @hbase = hbase_client
+    end
+ 
+    def train(klass, text)
+      # word.stem
+    end
+
+    def untrain(klass, text)
+    end
+
+    def classify(text)
+    end
+    
+    def classes(text)
+    end
+  end
+
+end