Exploring linguistic features for web spam detection: a preliminary study

We study the usability of linguistic features in the Web spam classification task. The features were computed on two Web spam corpora: Webspam-Uk2006 and Webspam-Uk2007, we make them publicly available for other researchers. Preliminary analysis seems to indicate that certain linguistic features may be useful for the spam-detection task when combined with features studied elsewhere. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3.1 [Information Storage and Retrieval]: Content Analysis and Indexing--Linguistic processing; I.2.6 [Artificial Intelligence]: Learning General Terms Web spam Keywords Web spam detection, content features, linguistic features

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: AIRWEB
• Authors: Jakub Piskorski, Marcin Sydow, Dawid Weiss
• Keywords: AIRWEB 2008, Internet Technology, Linguistic Features, Web Spam, Web Spam Corpora