Neural networks for email spam detection

Question

Let\'s say you have access to an email account with the history of received emails from the last years (~10k emails) classified into 2 groups

• genuine email

Answer 1

Are you set on doing it with a Neural Network? It sounds like you're set up pretty well to use Bayesian classification, which is outlined well in a couple of essays by Paul Graham:

• A Plan for Spam
• Better Bayesian Filtering

The classified history you have access to would make very strong corpora to feed to a Bayesian algorithm, you'd probably end up with quite an effective result.