Combating good word attacks on statistical spam filters with multiple instance learning

Proceedings - International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, ICTAI

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 298-305

  Zhou, Yan ^a   Jorgensen, Zach ^a   Inge, Meador ^a  

^a Mobile   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CYBERNETICS; ELECTRONIC MAIL; FOOD PROCESSING; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; MATERIALS HANDLING; SPAMMING; STATISTICAL METHODS; WAVE FILTERS;

BAYESIAN FILTERING; GOOD WORD ATTACK; INPUT SPACES; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; MULTIPLE INSTANCE LEARNING; MULTIPLE INSTANCES; SPAM FILTERING; SPAM MESSAGES;

INTERNET;

EID: 48649098207     PISSN: 10823409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICTAI.2007.120     Document Type: Conference Paper

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