The TREC 2005 Spam Filter Evaluation Track

2006-01-01

Gordon V. Cormack

University of Waterloo, Canada
Editor: Helen Martin

Abstract

The 14th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2005) took place in November 2005. One of the highlights of the event was the TREC spam filter evaluation effort. Gordon Cormack has all the details.

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