TREC 2005 Spam Track

Gordon V. Cormack (track coordinator) and Thomas R. Lynam

These papers were presented at the Spam Track of TREC 2005 - The Fourteenth TExt Retrieval Conference, Gaithersburg MD, November 15-18, 2005.

Final versions to appear in the TREC 2005 Proceedings, available early 2006.

TREC 2005 Spam Corpus now available for general use.

TREC Spam Track presentations and draft papers (reproduced with authors' permission).

TREC 2005 and 2006 Spam Track Guidelines


Related articles

G. V. Cormack & T. R. Lynam, Spam Corpus Creation for TREC, CEAS 2005 - The Second Conference on Email and Anti-Spam, July 2005.
G. V. Cormack, Challenges in Spam Filter Evaluation, Virus Bulletin, April 2005.
G. V. Cormack, & T. R. Lynam On-line Supervised Spam Filter Evaluation, University of Waterloo, February 2006.


TREC and other spam researchers are encouraged to attend and submit results to

CEAS 2006 - The 3rd Conference on Email and Anti-Spam

Mountain View CA, July 27-28, 2006.

... and, don't forget about

TREC 2006 Spam (and Email) Track

TREC 2006 Call for Participation - responses due February 22, 2006