The application of decision tree in Chinese email classification

Email is a kind of semi-structured document, some important attributes are contained in its structure, and especially using spam-specific features could improve the email classification results. In this paper, we apply decision tree data mining technique to dig out the potential association rules among these attributes of email, and then to identify unknown email's category based on these rules. According to the experiment of applying numerous Chinese emails to our email classifier, the efficiency of our method is not lower than that of other existing methods of checking whole email content text. Meanwhile our method can reduce the cost of computation and consumption of system resources.