The TREC 2006 Spam Filter Evaluation Track

2007-01-01

Gordon Cormack

University of Waterloo, Canada
Editor: Helen Martin

Abstract

The 15th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2006) took place in November 2006. For the second time, TREC included a spam track, whose purpose was to create realistic standardized benchmarks to measure spam filter effectiveness in a laboratory setting. Gordon Cormack reports on the results.

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