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Author Zdziarski, Jonathan A.

Title Ending spam : Bayesian content filtering and the art of statistical language classification / Jonathan A. Zdziarski
Edition First edition
Published San Francisco : No Starch Press, 2005

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Description xx, 287 pages ; 24 cm
Contents An introduction to spam filtering concepts -- The history of spam -- Historical approaches to fighting spam -- Next generation filtering -- Shining examples of filtering -- Machine learning concepts -- Fundamentals of statistical filtering -- Statistical filtering fundamentals -- Decoding: uncombobulating messages -- Tokenization: the building blocks of spam -- Open source, OSX, and Milk Duds -- The low-down dirty details of spam -- Data storage for a zillion records -- Scaling for large-scale environments -- Advanced concepts of statistical filtering -- Concept identification: advanced tokenization -- Testing theory -- Fifth-order Markovian discrimination -- Concept identification: advanced tokenization -- Intelligent feature set reduction -- Collaborative algorithms -- Installing and using open source filters
Notes Includes index
Subject Electronic mail systems -- Security measures.
Spam (Electronic mail)
Filters (Mathematics)
LC no. 2005008221
ISBN 1593270526