Symbiotic filtering for spam email detection

This paper presents a novel spam filtering technique called Symbiotic Filtering (SF) that aggregates distinct local filters from several users to improve the overall perfor- mance of spam detection. SF is an hybrid approach combining some features from both Collaborative (CF) and Content-Based Filte...

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Autor principal: Lopes, Clotilde (author)
Outros Autores: Cortez, Paulo (author), Sousa, Pedro (author), Rocha, Miguel (author), Rio, Miguel (author)
Formato: article
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2011
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/12042
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/12042
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Resumo:This paper presents a novel spam filtering technique called Symbiotic Filtering (SF) that aggregates distinct local filters from several users to improve the overall perfor- mance of spam detection. SF is an hybrid approach combining some features from both Collaborative (CF) and Content-Based Filtering (CBF). It allows for the use of social networks to personalize and tailor the set of filters that serve as input to the filtering. A comparison is performed against the commonly used Naive Bayes CBF algorithm. Several experiments were held with the well-known Enron data, under both fixed and incremental symbiotic groups. We show that our system is competitive in performance and is robust against both dictionary and focused con- tamination attacks. Moreover, it can be implemented and deployed with few effort and low communication costs, while assuring privacy.