Cost-sensitive three-way email spam filtering

Journal of Intelligent Information Systems

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 19-45

  Zhou, Bing ^a   Yao, Yiyu ^b   Luo, Jigang ^b  

^a SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cost sensitive learning; Email spam filtering; Naive Bayes classifier; Ternary classification; Three way decision

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893926234     PISSN: 09259902     EISSN: 15737675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10844-013-0254-7     Document Type: Article

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