Improved spam e-mail filtering based on committee machines and information theoretic feature extraction

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 179-184

  Zorkadis, V ^a   Panayotou, M ^a   Karras, D A ^a  

^a HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Committee machines; Linear models for classification; Multilayer Perceptions; Na ve Bayes; Spam filtering

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; ELECTRONIC MAIL; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SECURITY OF DATA;

COMMITTEE MACHINES; LINEAR MODELS FOR CLASSIFICATION; NAÏVE BAYES; SPAM FILTERING;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 33745954533     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN.2005.1555826     Document Type: Conference Paper

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