{"id":43,"date":"2004-07-05T19:29:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-05T23:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/?p=43"},"modified":"2004-07-05T19:29:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-05T23:29:00","slug":"cormack-and-lynams-study-on-supervised-spam-detection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"Cormack and Lynam&#39;s study on supervised spam detection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Mason <a href=\"http:\/\/taint.org\/2004\/06\/25\/034656a.html\">sums up the timeline<\/a> on this paper and various responses between the authors and the DSPAM developer. I&#39;d put Cormack in the top 3 professors who taught computer science when I attended <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwaterloo.ca\/\">Waterloo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Spam<\/strong>: or, &#39;SlashDot spam drama&#39;. So, a few days ago, I forwarded a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/plg.uwaterloo.ca\/~gvcormac\/spamcormack.html\">a paper I&#39;d been sent<\/a> &#8212; it&#39;s a great paper, and I&#39;m not just saying that because SpamAssassin did well &#8212; it really tests some of the popular open-source spam filters comprehensively, and correctly. (The authors have 24 years of information retrieval research between them.) <\/p>\n<p>The results have been pretty incendiary. \ud83d\ude09 Here&#39;s a timeline with links, in case you were wondering where we are right now: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>I forward <a href=\"http:\/\/plg.uwaterloo.ca\/~gvcormac\/spamcormack.html\"><em>A Study of Supervised Spam Detection Applied to Eight Months of Personal Email<\/em><\/a>, Gordon Cormack and Thomas Lynam, to the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.gmane.org\/gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.devel\">SpamAssassin-dev mailing list<\/a> for some quiet review. \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>it hit Slashdot (that was quick) <a href=\"http:\/\/developers.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=04\/06\/23\/014223&amp;tid=\">entitled &#39;Spamassassin Beats CRM-114 In Anti-Spam Shootout&#39;<\/a>. A bit over-the-top, but that&#39;s Slashdot for ya. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The DSPAM author responds with a SlashDot post entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=04\/06\/24\/1314208&amp;tid=\">Response to Gordon Cormack&#39;s Study of Spam Detection<\/a>, linking to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuclearelephant.com\/papers\/cormack.html\">&#39;an appropriate response to Cormack&#39;s technical errors&#39;<\/a> &#8212; with a few errors of its own. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Some follow-ups: <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/comments.pl?sid=112199&amp;cid=9520473\">Henry Stern&#39;s<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/comments.pl?sid=112199&amp;cid=9521919\">my own<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/plg.uwaterloo.ca\/~gvcormac\/reply.html\">Lynam and Cormack&#39;s<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Mason sums up the timeline on this paper and various responses between the authors and the DSPAM developer. I&#39;d put Cormack in the top 3 professors who taught computer science when I attended Waterloo. Spam: or, &#39;SlashDot spam drama&#39;. So, a few days ago, I forwarded a link to a paper I&#39;d been sent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}