A review of machine learning approaches to spam filtering

TS Guzella, WM Caminhas - Expert Systems with Applications, 2009 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present a comprehensive review of recent developments in the application
of machine learning algorithms to Spam filtering, focusing on both textual-and image-based …

An evaluation of statistical spam filtering techniques

L Zhang, J Zhu, T Yao - ACM Transactions on Asian Language …, 2004 - dl.acm.org
This paper evaluates five supervised learning methods in the context of statistical spam
filtering. We study the impact of different feature pruning methods and feature set sizes on …

A new semantic-based feature selection method for spam filtering

JR Mendez, TR Cotos-Yanez, D Ruano-Ordas - Applied Soft Computing, 2019 - Elsevier
The Internet emerged as a powerful infrastructure for the worldwide communication and
interaction of people. Some unethical uses of this technology (for instance spam or viruses) …

Tightening the net: A review of current and next generation spam filtering tools

J Carpinter, R Hunt - Computers & security, 2006 - Elsevier
This paper provides an overview of current and potential future spam filtering approaches.
We examine the problems spam introduces, what spam is and how we can measure it. The …

An evaluation of naive bayesian anti-spam filtering

I Androutsopoulos, J Koutsias, KV Chandrinos… - arXiv preprint cs …, 2000 - arxiv.org
It has recently been argued that a Naive Bayesian classifier can be used to filter unsolicited
bulk e-mail (" spam"). We conduct a thorough evaluation of this proposal on a corpus that we …

[PDF][PDF] Machine learning techniques in spam filtering

K Tretyakov - Data mining problem-oriented seminar, MTAT, 2004 - kt.era.ee
The article gives an overview of some of the most popular machine learning methods
(Bayesian classification, k-NN, ANNs, SVMs) and of their applicability to the problem of …

[PDF][PDF] Naive Bayes Spam Filtering Using Word-Position-Based Attributes.

J Hovold - CEAS, 2005 - ceas.cc
This paper explores the use of the naive Bayes classifier as the basis for personalised spam
filters. Several machine learning algorithms, including variants of naive Bayes, have …

A survey of learning-based techniques of email spam filtering

E Blanzieri, A Bryl - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2008 - Springer
Email spam is one of the major problems of the today's Internet, bringing financial damage to
companies and annoying individual users. Among the approaches developed to stop spam …

Spam filtering: how the dimensionality reduction affects the accuracy of Naive Bayes classifiers

TA Almeida, J Almeida, A Yamakami - Journal of Internet Services and …, 2011 - Springer
E-mail spam has become an increasingly important problem with a big economic impact in
society. Fortunately, there are different approaches allowing to automatically detect and …

Learning to filter spam e-mail: A comparison of a naive bayesian and a memory-based approach

I Androutsopoulos, G Paliouras, V Karkaletsis… - arXiv preprint cs …, 2000 - arxiv.org
We investigate the performance of two machine learning algorithms in the context of anti-
spam filtering. The increasing volume of unsolicited bulk e-mail (spam) has generated a …