Web Spam
Special Session: "Web Spam"
Web spam has become a major problem for quality and sustainability of the Internet. There has been a notorious arms competition between spammers and anti-spam writers and it is still going on. As anti-spam filters improve, spammers find new way to bypass anti-spam filters. It not only waste’s computer and network resources but also it decreases the reliability of the content available on the Internet. The main purpose of this special session is to identify and explore different issues and challenges related to web spam. It also aims at increasing the synergy between academic and industrial practitioners. We are interested in experimental, systems-related, theoretical, and work-in-progress papers in all aspects of web spam.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
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Web Spam
- Splog (Spam over weblogs)
- Spamdexing (Spam aim on search engine algorithms)
- Review/Opinion spam
- Social-network spam (Spam over social network websites)
- Comment spam
- Tag spam
- Wiki spam
- Image spam
- All other domains spam prevention and detection methods
- SPIT (Spam over Internet telephony
- SPIM (Spam over instant messenger)
- Email spam
- Phishing
- Machine Learning
- Natural language processing
- Adversarial learning
- Challenge-response
Communication Spam
Other
Results can be shown using one of the following standard spam datasets
1. Webb Spam Corpus - http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/projects...orpus.html
2. 2007 TREC Public Spam Corpus - http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~gvcormac/treccorpus07/
