%0 Journal Article %1 guzella2009review %A Guzella, Thiago S. %A Caminhas, Walmir M. %C Tarrytown, NY, USA %D 2009 %I Pergamon Press, Inc. %J Expert Syst. Appl. %K ml naive-bayes spam spam-detection survey %P 10206--10222 %R 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.02.037 %T Review: A review of machine learning approaches to Spam filtering %U http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1539049.1539460 %V 36 %X In this paper, we present a comprehensive review of recent developments in the application of machine learning algorithms to Spam filtering, focusing on both textual- and image-based approaches. Instead of considering Spam filtering as a standard classification problem, we highlight the importance of considering specific characteristics of the problem, especially concept drift, in designing new filters. Two particularly important aspects not widely recognized in the literature are discussed: the difficulties in updating a classifier based on the bag-of-words representation and a major difference between two early naive Bayes models. Overall, we conclude that while important advancements have been made in the last years, several aspects remain to be explored, especially under more realistic evaluation settings.

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