Efficient and effective spam filtering and re-ranking for large web datasets

Information Retrieval

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 441-465

  Cormack, Gordon V ^a   Smucker, Mark D ^a   Clarke, Charles L A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Spam; TREC; Web search; Web spam

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052866956     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: 15737659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10791-011-9162-z     Document Type: Article

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