Improving spam detection based on structural similarity

Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet Workshop, SRUTI 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 85-91

  Gomes, Luiz H ^a   Castro, Fernando D O ^a   Almeida, Virgílio A F ^a   Almeida, Jussara M ^a   Almeida, Rodrigo B ^a   Bettencourt, Luis M A ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC MAIL; SIGNAL DETECTION;

CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; FALSE POSITIVE; HISTORICAL INFORMATION; MISCLASSIFICATIONS; SPAM DETECTION; STRUCTURAL RELATIONSHIP; STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY; VECTORIAL SPACE;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84904814990     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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