Using dynamic markov compression to detect vandalism in the wikipedia

  • Authors:
  • Kelly Y. Itakura;Charles L. A. Clarke

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada;University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We apply the Dynamic Markov Compression model to detect spam edits in the Wikipedia. The method appears to outperform previous efforts based on compression models, providing performance comparable to methods based on manually constructed rules.