Apparatus and method for detecting spam

摘要

Provided is a process of detecting spam in websites, the process including: obtaining text from a website; detecting an amount of transitions between character sets in the text, wherein the character sets each correspond to different alphabets; calculating, with a computer, a score indicative of the likelihood that the text is spam based on the amount of transitions; and labeling the text as spam based on the score.

主权项

1. A method of detecting spam in web sites, the method comprising:
obtaining a text entry; detecting a number of character transitions between character sets in the text entry, wherein the character sets (i) each correspond to different alphabets and (ii) are different subsets of a character encoding that maps characters from multiple alphabets to respective binary numbers for use by computers; calculating, with a computer, a score indicative of the likelihood that the text entry is spam based on the number of character transitions; and labeling the text entry as spam based on the score.