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Introduction

PART I: An Introduction to Spam Filtering
Chapter 1: The History of Spam
Chapter 2: Historical Approaches to Fighting Spam
Chapter 3: Language Classification Concepts
Chapter 4: Statistical Filtering Fundamentals

PART II: Fundamentals of Statistical Filtering
Chapter 5: Decoding: Uncombobulating Messages
Chapter 6: Tokenization: The Building Blocks of Spam
Chapter 7: The Low-Down Dirty Tricks of Spammers
Chapter 8: Data Storage for a Zillion Records
Chapter 9: Scaling in Large Environments

PART III: Advanced Concepts of Statistical Filtering
Chapter 10: Testing Theory
Chapter 11: Concept Identification: Advanced Tokenization
Chapter 12: Fifth-Order Markovian Discrimination
Chapter 13: Intelligent Feature Set Reduction
Chapter 14: Collaborative Algorithms

Appendix: Shining Examples of Filtering

Index

A detailed table of contents is available here.


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