Machine learning for the detection of spam in twitter networks

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 222 CCIS, Issue , 2012, Pages 319-333

  Wang, Alex Hai ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN CLASSIFIER; CLASSIFICATION METHODS; CONTENT-BASED FEATURES; DATA SETS; DETECTION SYSTEM; EVALUATION METRICS; F-MEASURE; GRAPH-BASED; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; SOCIAL GRAPHS; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES; SPAM DETECTION; WEB CRAWLERS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DIRECTED GRAPHS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INTERNET;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84857554841     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-25206-8_21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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