Detecting spam blogs: A machine learning approach

Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1351-1356

  Kolari, Pranam ^a   Java, Akshay ^a   Finin, Tim ^a   Oates, Tim ^a   Joshi, Anupam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TARGET SITES; WEBLOGS;

ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; SEARCH ENGINES;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750682639     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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