Current and New Developments in Spam Filtering

Assoc Professor Ray Hunt

Dept. of CSSE, University of Canterbury

Fri Nov 03 15:10:00 NZDT 2006 in Room 031, MSCS

Abstract

This seminar will provide an overview of current and potential future spam filtering techniques. It examines the problems spam introduces, what spam is and how we can measure it. This seminar will primarily focus on automated, noninteractive filters, with a broad review ranging from commercial implementations to ideas confined to current research papers. Both machine learning and non-machine learning based filters are reviewed as potential solutions and a taxonomy of known approaches presented. While a range of different techniques have and continue to be evaluated in academic research, heuristic and Bayesian filtering - along with its variants - provide the greatest potential for future spam prevention.