Web spam detection through link-based features

Information Retrieval exam repository.

Author: Lorenzo Basile

Structure of the repository

• spam_detection.ipynb contains the commented implementation of a web spam classifier and of a spam-robust version of PageRank algorithm, both based on the link structure of the web graph.
• spam_detection.py contains the customized functions developed for this project.
• Folder data contains the dataset WEBSPAM-UK2006.
• Folder papers contains the key reference papers.