TREC 2007 Public Corpus
Copyright 2005 Gordon V. Cormack and Thomas R. Lynam

    gvcormac@uwaterloo.ca

Permission is granted for research use provided
users agree to, and abide by, the Usage Agreement.

Permission is NOT granted to publish this corpus
or any material portion (including file names and
judgements).

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The TREC 2005 Corpus and TREC 2006 Corpora are also available.

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Use with the TREC 2007 spam evaluation toolkit.

The corpus trec07p contains 75,419 messages:

    25220 ham
    50199 spam

These messages constitute all the messages delivered to a particular
server between these dates:

    Sun, 8 Apr 2007 13:07:21 -0400
    Fri, 6 Jul 2007 07:04:53 -0400

There are three subcorpora:

trec07p/full/    -  immmediate, full feedback
trec07p/delay/   -  feedback only for first 10,000 messages
trec07p/partial/ -  feedback only for 30,388 messages correponding to 1 recipient

For TREC 2007, please submit 4 runs per filter, with the appropriate run-id
prefix (ffff, the run-id of the filter) and run-id suffix (see below).

runid         command

ffffpf        run.sh trec07p/full/
ffffpd        run.sh trec07p/delay/
ffffpp        run.sh trec07p/partial/
ffffp1000     run07.sh trec07p/full/ ffffpa resultfile 1000

Note:  to create ffffp1000, you must compile the new-for-2007
version of the run shell, run07.sh, which you can build from
the run.activeLearning.cpp C++ source referenced here:

   http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~gvcormac/spam/onlineActiveIntro.html

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