Unsolicited Bulk E-mail (UBE) or Unsolicited Commercial E-mail (UCE), also known as Spam, has been an increasingly annoying problem.
For more information on this problem, you can see our White Paper on Anti-Spam E-mail Filtering
[PDF].
[My Research]
Presentations
Geoff Hulten and Joshua Goodman, "Junk E-mail Filtering,"
Tutorial in ICML 2004.
Joshua Goodman, "Spam Filtering: Text Classification with an Adversary," Invited Talk at Workshop on Operational Text Classifications Systems, ACM KDD 2003.
John Graham-Cumming, "Adaptive Filtering: One Year On," Invited Talk at Spam Mini Symposium, USENIX LISA 2003.
Paul Graham, "The Future of Spam Filtering," GBC/ACM, Dec. 12, 2003.
Papers
The following is a list of e-mail filtering related papers organized in reverse chronological order.
Topics may include anti-spam e-mail filtering (or spam filtering), e-mail classification, spam categorization, ..., etc.
You can also reach a more complete list of e-mail processing related papers.
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Feng Zhou, Li Zhuang, Ben Y. Zhao, Ling Huang, Anthony D. Joseph, John Kubiatowicz, "Approximate Object Location and Spam Filtering on Peer-to-peer Systems,in Proc. Middleware 2003, pp. 1-20, Jun. 2003.
I. Androutsopoulos, et. al, "An Experimental Comparison of Naive Bayesian and Keyword-Based Anti-Spam Filtering with Personal E-mail Messages," in Proc. of the 23rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2000), pp. 160-167, Jul. 2000.
Jake D. Brutlag and Christopher Meek, "Challenges of the Email Domain for Text Classification," in Proc. ICML 2000, pp.103-110, Jun. 2000.
L. F. Cranor and B. A. LaMacchia, "Spam!," Communications of the ACM, Vol.41, No.8, pp. 74-83, Aug. 1998.
M. Sahami, S. Dumais, D.. Heckerman, and E. Horvitz, "A Bayesian Approach to Filtering Junk E-Mail," in Proc. AAAI-1998 Workshop on Learning for Text Categorization, Jul. 1998.
W. W. Cohen, "Learning Rules that Classify E-Mail," in Proc. AAAI-1996 Spring Symposium on Machine Learning in Information Access, pp. 124-143, Mar. 1996.
