Detection of Illegitimate Emails using Boosting Algorithm

Sarwat Nizamani, Nasrullah Memon, Uffe Kock Wiil

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Abstract

In this paper, we report on experiments to detect illegitimate emails using boosting algorithm. We call an email illegitimate if it is not useful for the receiver or for the society. We have divided the problem into two major areas of illegitimate
email detection: suspicious email detection and spam email detection. For our desired task, we have applied a boosting technique. With the use of boosting we can achieve high accuracy of traditional classification algorithms. When using boosting
one has to choose a suitable weak learner as well as the number of boosting iterations. In this paper, we propose suitable weak learners and parameter settings for the boosting algorithm for the desired task. We have initially analyzed the problem using base learners. Then we have applied boosting algorithm with suitable weak learners and parameter settings such as the number of boosting iterations. We propose a Naive Bayes classifier as a suitable weak learner for the boosting algorithm.
It achieves maximum performance with very few boosting iterations.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCounterterrorism and Open Source Intelligence
EditorsUffe Kock Wiil
PublisherSpringer
Publication date2011
Edition1
Pages249-264
ISBN (Print)978-3-7091-0387-6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011
SeriesLecture Notes in Social Networks
Number1
Volume2

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