A neural tree and its application to spam e-mail detection

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 7976-7985

  Su, Mu Chun ^a   Lo, Hsu Hsun ^a   Hsu, Fu Hau ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Decision tree; Incremental learning; Neural networks; Neural tree; Pattern classification; Spam detection

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; ELECTRONIC MAIL; NEURAL NETWORKS; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

DETECTION PROBLEMS; ELLIPSOIDAL-SHAPED; INCREMENTAL LEARNING; NEURAL TREES; PATTERN RECOGNITION PROBLEMS; SPAM DETECTION; TRAINING ALGORITHMS; TREE-STRUCTURED NEURAL NETWORKS;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 77957843789     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2010.04.038     Document Type: Article

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