A comparative impact study of attribute selection techniques on naïve bayes spam filters

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5077 LNAI, Issue , 2008, Pages 213-227

  Mendez J R ^a   Cid, I ^a   Glez Pena D ^a   Rocha, M ^b   Fdez Riverola, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; DATA MINING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; ELECTRONIC MAIL; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MINING; SEARCH ENGINES; SPAMMING; WAVE FILTERS;

ATTRIBUTE SELECTION; BAYES CLASSIFIERS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; E-COMMERCE; E-MAIL SERVICE; FEATURE SELECTION; IMPACT STUDY; INTERNET USERS; MESSAGE DELIVERY; SPAM FILTERING;

INTERNET;

EID: 48949095463     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-70720-2_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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