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Learning To Classify E-Mail, Irena Koprinska, Josiah Poon, James Clark, Jason Yuk Hin Chan
Learning To Classify E-Mail, Irena Koprinska, Josiah Poon, James Clark, Jason Yuk Hin Chan
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
In this paper we study supervised and semi-supervised classification of e-mails. We consider two tasks: filing e-mails into folders and spam e-mail filtering. Firstly, in a supervised learning setting, we investigate the use of random forest for automatic e-mail filing into folders and spam e-mail filtering. We show that random forest is a good choice for these tasks as it runs fast on large and high dimensional databases, is easy to tune and is highly accurate, outperforming popular algorithms such as decision trees, support vector machines and naive Bayes. We introduce a new accurate feature selector with linear time complexity. …