Exploring linguistic features for web spam detection: A preliminary study

AIRWeb 2008 - Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 25-28

  Piskorski, Jakub ^a   Sydow, Marcin ^b   Weiss, Dawid ^c  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b POLISH JAPANESE INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Content features; Linguistic features; Web spam detection

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; LINGUISTICS; SPAMMING;

CONTENT FEATURES; DETECTION TASKS; LINGUISTIC FEATURES; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; SPAM CLASSIFICATIONS; SPAM CORPORA; WEB SPAM DETECTION;

INTERNET;

EID: 63049135689     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1451983.1451990     Document Type: Conference Paper

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