Web spam identification through language model analysis

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 21-28

  Martinez Romo, Juan ^a   Araujo, Lourdes ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

content spam; language model approach; web spam

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION TASKS; DATA SETS; HIGH QUALITY; HYPERLINKS; KULLBACK LEIBLER DIVERGENCE; LANGUAGE MODEL; SPAM IDENTIFICATION; WEB PAGE;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INTERNET;

EID: 77954437265     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1531914.1531920     Document Type: Conference Paper

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