Spam filtering in twitter using sender-receiver relationship

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6961 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 301-317

  Song, Jonghyuk ^a   Lee, Sangho ^a   Kim, Jong ^a  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Social network; Spam; Spam filtering; Twitter

Indexed keywords

AS CONTENT; MALICIOUS ACTIVITIES; MESSAGE RECEIVERS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SPAM; SPAM FILTERING; SPAM MESSAGES; SPAMMERS; TWITTER;

INTRUSION DETECTION; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

INTERNET;

EID: 84863156952     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23644-0_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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