Objective Scoring for Computing Competition Tasks (2008)
Graeme Kemkes, Troy Vasiga, Gordon Cormack
Computing competitions like the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) typically pose several problems that contestants are required to solve by writing a program. The program is tested...
Structure, scoring and purpose of computing competitions (2006)
Gordon Cormack, Graeme Kemkes, Ian Munro, Troy Vasiga
We identify aspects of computing competition formats as they relate to the purpose of these competitions, both stated and tacit. We consider the major international competitions – the International...
Structure, scoring and purpose of computing competitions (2006)
Gordon Cormack, Graeme Kemkes, Ian Munro, Troy Vasiga
We identify aspects of computing competition formats as they relate to the purpose of these competitions, both stated and tacit. We consider the major international competitions – the International...
TREC 2005 Spam Track Overview (2005)
Gordon Cormack And, Gordon Cormack, Thomas Lynam
TREC's Spam Track introduces a standard testing framework that presents a chronological sequence of email messages, one at a time, to a spam filter for classification. The filter yields a binary...
Spam corpus creation for trec (2005)
2005) introduces a standard testing framework that is designed to model a spam filter’s usage as closely as possible, to measure quantities that reflect the filter’s effectiveness for its...
A study of supervised spam detection applied to eight months of personal email (2004)
In the last year or two, unwelcome email has grown to the extent that it is inconvenient, annoying and wasteful of computer resources. More significantly, its volume threatens to overwhelm our...