Is your spam filter really adaptive? (Probably not)

By: Jonathan Zdziarski

Jonathan Zdziarski describes adaptive parsing - a technique that can be applied to a spam classifier’s parser to allow it to learn the most effective way to parse a corpus of mail.

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