Online active multi-field learning for efficient email spam filtering

Knowledge and Information Systems

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 117-136

  Liu, Wuying ^a,b   Wang, Ting ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b PLA University of Foreign Languages   (China)

Author keywords

Active learning; Email spam filtering; Multi field learning; Online learning; TREC spam track

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); ELECTRONIC MAIL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; TEXT PROCESSING;

ACTIVE LEARNING; E-MAIL SPAM; MULTI-FIELD; ONLINE LEARNING; TREC SPAM TRACK;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 84867097517     PISSN: 02191377     EISSN: 02193116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10115-011-0461-x     Document Type: Article

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