DIG Student Seminar - Spamming on the Social Web


Date: Wednesday 12 November 2008
Time: 15:00 - 16:00
Venue: 32-G531

Major Reading

Fighting Spam on Social Web Sites - A Survey of Approaches and Future Challenges
Paul Heymann, Georgia Koutrika, Hector Garcia-Molina
IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 11, No. 6, pp. 36-45, 2007.


Other Relevant Resources

Combating Spam in Tagging Systems: An Evaluation
Georgia Koutrika, Frans Effendi, Zoltan Gyongyi, Paul Heymann, Hector Garcia-Molina
ACM Transactions on the Web, Vol. 2, Issue 4 (October 2008), 2008.

Analyzing Social Bookmarking Systems: A del.icio.us Cookbook (PDF)
Robert Wetzker, Carsten Zimmermann, Christian Bauckhage
Proceedings of Mining Social Data (MSoDa) Workshop, ECAI 2008.

ECML PKDD Discovery Challenge 2008
A few papers on how machine learning techniques can be used to detect spammers in collaborative tagging systems.


Presentation Slides

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