Training SpamAssassin with active semi-supervised learning

6th Conference on Email and Anti-Spam, CEAS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Xu, Jun Ming ^a   Fumera, Giorgio ^b   Roli, Fabio ^b   Zhou, Zhi Hua ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

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Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); INTERNET; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SUPERVISED LEARNING;

ACTIVE LEARNING; FILTER OPERATIONS; PATTERN CLASSIFIER; PATTERN RECOGNITION TECHNIQUES; SELF-TRAINING TECHNIQUES; SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING; SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING METHODS; SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING TECHNIQUES;

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EID: 84904815925     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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