TREC 2006 Spam Track

Gordon V. Cormack (track coordinator)

These papers were presented at the Spam Track of TREC 2006 - The Fifteenth TExt Retrieval Conference, Gaithersburg MD, November 14-17, 2006.

Final versions to appear in the TREC 2006 Proceedings.

TREC 2005 - 2007 Spam Track Guidelines
TREC 2006 Public Corpora available for download


Related publications

G. V. Cormack & T. R. Lynam, Spam Corpus Creation for TREC, CEAS 2005 - The Second Conference on Email and Anti-Spam, July 2005.
E. M. Voorhees and Lori P. Buckland (eds) The Fourteenth Text REtrieval Conference Proceedings (TREC 2005)
G. V. Cormack, TREC 2005 Spam Track
G. V. Cormack, & T. R. Lynam On-line Supervised Spam Filter Evaluation, University of Waterloo.
G. V. Cormack & A. Bratko Batch and On-line Spam Filter Evaluation, CEAS 2006.
T. R. Lynam & G. V. Cormack On-line Spam Filter Fusion, SIGIR 2006.
G. V. Cormack Spam Filter Fusion including TREC 2006 Results presented at TREC 2006.


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

CEAS 2007 - The 4th Conference on Email and Anti-Spam

Mountain View CA, August 2-3, 2007.

... and, don't forget about

TREC 2007 Spam (and Email) Track

TREC 2007 Call for Participation - responses due February 23, 2007