Spam
Review Spam Detection
Authors – Nitin Jindal and Bing Liu
Year – 2007
Published in – Proceedings of the International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2).
Link – http://www.www2007.org/htmlposters/poster930/
Importance to my Research – High
MY REVIEW
In this paper, the authors make an attempt to study a new cateogory of spam i.e review spam and also provide insights into a detection approach to identify such spam. [...]
Review – Web Spam Taxanomy
Authors – Zoltan Gyongyi, Hector Garcia-Molina
Year – 2006
Published in – In 1st International Workshop on Adversarial Information
Link – http://airweb.cse.lehigh.edu/2005/gyongyi.pdf
MY REVIEW
I was planning to write a review for this paper, however I found that Mr Pedram Hayati has written an excellent review on this article. So I got a bit lazy . Please find the [...]
Review – A Quantitative Study of Forum Spamming Using Context-based Analysis
Authors -Yuan Niu, Yi-Min Wang, Hao Chen, Ming Ma, and Francis Hsu
Year – 2007
Published in- Proceedings of the Network & Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium
Link – ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/tr/TR-2006-173.pdf
Importance to my Research – High
MY REVIEW
The approach presented by the authors is very interesting and practical, however I found one major weakness and i.e. the authors should have considered [...]
Detecting Spam Blogs: A Machine Learning Approach
Authors – Pranam Kolari, Akshay Java, Tim Finin, Tim Oates, and Anupam Joshi
Year – 2006
Published in – Proceedings of the 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2006)
Link – http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/get/a/publication/260.pdf
Importance to my Research – Very High
MY REVIEW
The authors propose a splog detection method in this paper, they consider splog detection as a classification problem, and [...]
Detecting Spam Web Pages through Content Analysis
Authors – Alexandros Ntoulas, Marc Najork, Mark Manasse,Dennis Fetterly
Year – 2006
Published in – Proceedings of the 15th International World Wide Web Conference
Link – http://research.microsoft.com/research/sv/sv-pubs/www2006.pdf
Importance to my Research – High
MY REVIEW
This paper is well written and I really like reading it. The authors listed 10 heuristic approaches to classify web pages as spam and no-spam. These [...]


