Web spamming techniques aim to achieve undeserved rankings in search results. Research has been widely conducted on identifying such spam and neutralizing its influence. However,...
Web spam can significantly deteriorate the quality of search engines. Early web spamming techniques mainly manipulate page content. Since linkage information is widely used in we...
The standard method for combating spam, either in email or on the web, is to train a classifier on manually labeled instances. As the spammers change their tactics, the performanc...
Deepak Chinavle, Pranam Kolari, Tim Oates, Tim Fin...
Analysis of Google Influenza-like-illness (ILI) search queries has shown a strongly correlated pattern with Center for Disease Control and Prevention seasonal ILI reporting data. W...
Courtney Corley, Armin R. Mikler, Karan P. Singh, ...
Spam is highly pervasive in P2P file-sharing systems and is difficult to detect automatically before actually downloading a file due to the insufficient and biased description of ...