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An evaluation of Naive Bayesian anti-spam filtering

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arxiv cs/0006013 v1 pith:RSOHIQPR submitted 2000-06-07 cs.CL cs.AI

classification cs.CLcs.AI
keywords bayesianevaluationfilternaiveanti-spambeensizeadditional
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It has recently been argued that a Naive Bayesian classifier can be used to filter unsolicited bulk e-mail ("spam"). We conduct a thorough evaluation of this proposal on a corpus that we make publicly available, contributing towards standard benchmarks. At the same time we investigate the effect of attribute-set size, training-corpus size, lemmatization, and stop-lists on the filter's performance, issues that had not been previously explored. After introducing appropriate cost-sensitive evaluation measures, we reach the conclusion that additional safety nets are needed for the Naive Bayesian anti-spam filter to be viable in practice.

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