Spam detection with a content-based random-walk algorithm

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 45-51

  Ortega, F Javier ^a   Macdonald, Craig ^b   Troyano, José A ^a   Cruz, Fermín ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Graph algorithms; Information retrieval; PageRank; Web search; Web spam detection

Indexed keywords

CONTENT-BASED; GRAPH ALGORITHMS; GRAPH-BASED ALGORITHMS; PAGERANK; PRIORI ESTIMATION; RANDOM WALK ALGORITHMS; SPAM DETECTION; TEXTUAL CONTENT; WEB GRAPHS; WEB PAGE; WEB SEARCH ENGINES; WEB SEARCHES; WEB SPAM;

ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; SEARCH ENGINES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 78651289399     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1871985.1871994     Document Type: Conference Paper

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