Detection and Classification of Legitimate and Spam Emails using K-Nearesest

Soyemi, Jumoke and Hammed, Mudasiru (2020) Detection and Classification of Legitimate and Spam Emails using K-Nearesest. International Journal of Computer Applications, 175 (18). pp. 28-32. ISSN 0975 – 8887

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Abstract

Spam in emails is a major challenge that is inherent in today’s internet as it endangers financial institutions and poses a threat to individual users. Various techniques have been proposed by different studies to prevent spam in emails; however, classification and filtering technique using machine intelligence methods are the most efficient among the several methods. This study employed a K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) augmented with the Quadratic Sieve algorithm to detect and classify legitimate emails and spam. The sieve algorithm revealed all the prime numbers for all the dataset used, starting from the input dataset to reduce the errors that may cause an imbalance in the classification. The result from this study shows that implementation of KNN augmented with Quadratic Sieve algorithm detects and properly classifies legitimate e-mail as well as spam much better

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Divisions:	Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics > School of Electronics and Computer Science
Depositing User:	Dr J. Soyemi
Date Deposited:	18 Sep 2020 07:55
Last Modified:	18 Sep 2020 07:55
URI:	http://eprints.federalpolyilaro.edu.ng/id/eprint/1220

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