Mining pharmaceutical spam from Twitter

Proceedings of the 2010 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, ISDA'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 813-817

  Shekar, Chandra ^a   Wakade, Shruti ^a   Liszka, Kathy J ^a   Chan, Chien Chung ^a  

^a University of Akron   (United States)

Author keywords

Data mining; Social networking; Spam; Twitter

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ALGORITHMS; DATA-MINING TOOLS; DECISION TREE CLASSIFIERS; SIMPLE METHOD; SOCIAL NETWORKING; SPAM; SPAM DETECTION; TEXT MINING TECHNIQUES; TWITTER;

DECISION TREES; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; INTERNET; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

DATA MINING;

EID: 79851497614     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISDA.2010.5687162     Document Type: Conference Paper

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