Effective spam classification based on meta-heuristics

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages 3872-3877

  Yeh, Chi Yuan ^a   Wu, Chih Hung ^b   Doong, Shing Hwang ^a  

^a SHU TE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KAOHSIUNG   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Classification; Decision trees; Machine learning; Meta heuristics; Na ve Bayesian; Spam; Support vector machines

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC MAIL; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HEURISTIC METHODS; VECTORS;

CLASSIFICATION; DECISION TREES (DT); META-HEURISTICS; NAÏVE BAYESIAN; SPAM; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES (SVM);

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 27944487124     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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