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A new system for spam e-mail annotation by end-users is presented. It is based on the recursive application of hand-written annotation rules by means of an inferential engine based on Logic Programming. Annotation rules allow the user to express nuanced considerations that depend on deobfuscation, word (non-)occurrence and structure of the message in a straightforward, human-readable syntax. We show that a sample collection of annotation rules are effective on a relevant corpus that we have assembled by collecting e-mails that have escaped detection by the industry-standard SpamAssassin filter. The system presented here is intended as a personal tool enforcing personalized annotation rules that would not be suitable for the general e-mail traffic.
A companion Web site to this article, with software, results and the corpus described herewith is at http://informatica.unime.it/rubast/
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Fiumara, G., Marchi, M., Pagano, R., Provetti, A. (2010). Rule-Based Spam E-mail Annotation. In: Hitzler, P., Lukasiewicz, T. (eds) Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. RR 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6333. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15918-3_21
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