COZO - CONTENT ZONING FOR SPAM EMAILS

Claudine Brucks, Cynthia Wagner, Michael Hilker, Ralph Weires

2007

Abstract

Spam is an increasing problem when using email as communication medium. Spam is detected and removed using spam filters. Furthermore, the spammers use more and more intelligent and complex techniques so that novel approaches are required to enhance existing spam filters. One promising technique is the Argumentative Zoning that classifies a text in different parts where each part has a meaning. In this paper, we want to use this technique in order to divide an email into different zones and evaluate whether the email is spam or not. We introduce the technique Content Zoning, the way we use it, the implementation, and our results.

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in Harvard Style

Brucks C., Wagner C., Hilker M. and Weires R. (2007). COZO - CONTENT ZONING FOR SPAM EMAILS . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-972-8865-77-1, pages 23-27. DOI: 10.5220/0001263400230027


in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist07,
author={Claudine Brucks and Cynthia Wagner and Michael Hilker and Ralph Weires},
title={COZO - CONTENT ZONING FOR SPAM EMAILS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2007},
pages={23-27},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001263400230027},
isbn={978-972-8865-77-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - COZO - CONTENT ZONING FOR SPAM EMAILS
SN - 978-972-8865-77-1
AU - Brucks C.
AU - Wagner C.
AU - Hilker M.
AU - Weires R.
PY - 2007
SP - 23
EP - 27
DO - 10.5220/0001263400230027