Spam filtering for short messages

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 313-319

  Cormack, Gordon V ^a   María, José ^b   Sánz, Enrique Puertas ^b   Hidalgo, Gómez ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSIDAD EUROPEA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Blog; Classification; Email; Filtering; SMS; Spam

Indexed keywords

BLOG; CLASSIFICATION; EMAIL; FILTERING; SMS; SPAM;

ELECTRONIC MAIL; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; SPAMMING; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

INTERNET;

EID: 47649112701     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1321440.1321486     Document Type: Conference Paper

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