CEAS Spam Filter Challenge

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

• Call for Participation.
• Competition Registration (now closed)
• Official Live Challenge Rules and Guidelines.
• Official Lab Evaluation Rules and Guidelines.
• Live Challenge Environment and Filter Configuration.
• Results slideshow.
• Interactive results viewer.

Background Information

• Presentation by Richard Segal at the MIT Spam Conference

Mailing List

• Please fill out the form or send an e-mail to to join the competition mailing list.

Key dates:

• Competition registration.
• Toolkit available.
• Test stream beginning.
• Filter submissions for lab evaluation due.
• Live competition starts
• Live competition ends

Organizers

• (IBM Research)
• (University of Waterloo)
• (Jozef Stefan Institute)