Applicability of machine learning in spam and phishing email filtering: review and approaches

Unethical e-mail senders bear little or no cost for mass distribution of messages, yet normal e-mail users are forced to spend time and effort in reading undesirable messages from their mailboxes. Due to the rapid increase of electronic mail (or e-mail), several people and companies found it an easy way to distribute a massive amount of undesired messages to a tremendous number of users at a very low cost. These unwanted bulk messages or junk e-mails are called spam messages .Several machine learning approaches have been applied to this problem. In this paper, we explore a new approach based on Bayesian classification that can automatically classify e-mail messages as spam or legitimate. We study its performance for various datasets.

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Python for Automating Machine Learning Tasks

JINAV: Journal of Information and Visualization ◽

10.35877/454ri.jinav373 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 77-82

Author(s):

Tinatin Mshvidobadze

Keyword(s):

Machine Learning ◽

Programming Language ◽

Learning Algorithms ◽

Machine Learning Algorithms ◽

Data Breach ◽

Learning Tasks ◽

Python Programming Language ◽

Malicious Insiders ◽

Python Programming ◽

Email Filtering

Machine learning is used in a variety of computational tasks where designing and programming explicit algorithms with good performance is not easy. Applications include email filtering, recognition of network intruders or malicious insiders working towards a data breach. In this article we will focus on basics of machine learning, tasks and problems and various machine learning algorithms. The article discusses the Python programming language as the best language for automating machine learning tasks.

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Mind wandering as data augmentation: How mental travel supports abstraction

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x1900311x ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 43 ◽

Author(s):

Myrthe Faber

Keyword(s):

Machine Learning ◽

Data Augmentation ◽

Mental Content ◽

Mind Wandering ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Important Addition

Abstract Gilead et al. state that abstraction supports mental travel, and that mental travel critically relies on abstraction. I propose an important addition to this theoretical framework, namely that mental travel might also support abstraction. Specifically, I argue that spontaneous mental travel (mind wandering), much like data augmentation in machine learning, provides variability in mental content and context necessary for abstraction.

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