Combining text and heuristics for cost-sensitive spam filtering

Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, CoNLL 2000 and of the 2nd Learning Language in Logic Workshop, LLL 2000 - Held in cooperation with ICGI 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 99-102

  Hidalgo, José M Gómez ^a   López, Manuel Maña ^b   Sanz, Enrique Puertas ^a  

^a Universidad Europea CEES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MACHINE LEARNING;

COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; COST MODELS; COST-SENSITIVE; LEGITIMATE MESSAGES; MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MISCLASSIFICATIONS; SPAM FILTERING; TEXT CATEGORIZATION;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 84870005304     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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