CEAS 2009 Spam Filter Challenge

More details on the this year's CEAS Spam Filter Challenge will soon be available.

Live Challenge Overview

  • 72-hour live email spam competition.
  • Live email stream, delivered by standard protocols (SMTP, IMAP, POP).
  • Remote and on-site participants welcome.
  • Server, appliances, proxies, personal filters welcome.

Lab Evaluation Overview

  • Filter evaluation on several real-life, private email collections.
  • Backwards-compatible with the TREC spam-filter interface.
  • Complete feedback and (more realistic) limited feedback training regimes.
  • Filters will also be evaluated on the live email stream (apples-to-apples comparison).
  • Personal filters, statistical filters, past TREC submissions welcome.

Links and Information

Will soon be available.

Background Information

Presentation by Richard Segal at the MIT Spam Conference.

Mailing List

Please fill out the form or send an email to Richard Segal to join the competition mailing list.

Key Dates

Will soon be available.

Organizers

 

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