Spam, also known as Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE), is the bane of email communication. Many data mining researchers have addressed the problem of detecting spam, generally by...
Adversarial IR in general, and search engine spam, in particular, are engaging research topics with a real-world impact for Web users, advertisers and publishers. The AIRWeb works...
Carlos Castillo, Kumar Chellapilla, Dennis Fetterl...
This paper describes our approaches to the opinion retrieval and blog distillation tasks for the Blog Track. For opinion retrieval we employ a two-stage framework consisting of ke...
Obtaining high-quality and up-to-date labeled data can be difficult in many real-world machine learning applications, especially for Internet classification tasks like review spam...
In the last few years, obfuscation has been used more and more by spammers to make spam emails bypass filters. The standard method is to use images that look like text, since typi...