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...
The problem of spam is a classic “tragedy of the commons” [10]. We propose the Zmail protocol as a way to preserve email as a “free” common resource for most users, while ...
Benjamin Kuipers, Alex X. Liu, Aashin Gautam, Moha...
The annotation of web sites in social bookmarking systems has become a popular way to manage and find information on the web. The community structure of such systems attracts spam...
Beate Krause, Christoph Schmitz, Andreas Hotho, Ge...
Naive Bayes and logistic regression perform well in different regimes. While the former is a very simple generative model which is efficient to train and performs well empirically...
In this paper, we propose methods and heuristics having high accuracies and low time complexities for filtering spam e-mails. The methods are based on the n-gram approach and a heu...