Text-based framework for spam detection in Twitter. (c2017)

Due to the inevitable popularity of twitter, as well as its ability to transport messages into sparse communities, spammers tend to take twitter for granted in spreading their commercial messages. Moreover, different spammers behave in various manners. Some of them adopted behavioral approaches; oth...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Halawi, Bahia M. (author)
التنسيق: masterThesis
منشور في: 2017
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الوصول للمادة أونلاين:http://hdl.handle.net/10725/6553
https://doi.org/10.26756/th.2017.21
http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/thesis.php
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Dissertations, Academic
Spam filtering (Electronic mail)
Twitter
Ontologies (Information retrieval)
Spam (Electronic mail)
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description Due to the inevitable popularity of twitter, as well as its ability to transport messages into sparse communities, spammers tend to take twitter for granted in spreading their commercial messages. Moreover, different spammers behave in various manners. Some of them adopted behavioral approaches; others made use of content entropy while many others explored bait behaviors. Previous related works look at this problem from the perspective of studying a tweet along with its metadata, performing different statistical and profiling activities in order to infer about spam. However, these approaches do not pay attention to the limitations placed over twitter’s streaming API, minimizing user’s abilities to extracting follower and followees’ data. Also, many of the approaches violate user privacy by investigating personal data about him/her without previous consent. This thesis is dedicated to studying the relationship between tweets shared by different users, particularly, content considered as spam vs. legitimate. Moreover, we will overcome the above mentioned limitations by developing a set of Message to Message analysis approaches. First, we will deploy the cosine vector similarity and later the natural language toolkit and co-occurrence model to enhance the correctness in detection. However, due to spammer’s creativity in building organic messages, hardly looking similar to old messages, these models suffer from limitations. That is why, we elaborate the use of ontologies in detecting spam over twitter during events. Our experimental results will demonstrate the efficiency of analyzing spam content/semantic relationships over twitter through ontologies.
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spelling Text-based framework for spam detection in Twitter. (c2017)Halawi, Bahia M.Lebanese American University -- DissertationsDissertations, AcademicSpam filtering (Electronic mail)TwitterOntologies (Information retrieval)Spam (Electronic mail)Due to the inevitable popularity of twitter, as well as its ability to transport messages into sparse communities, spammers tend to take twitter for granted in spreading their commercial messages. Moreover, different spammers behave in various manners. Some of them adopted behavioral approaches; others made use of content entropy while many others explored bait behaviors. Previous related works look at this problem from the perspective of studying a tweet along with its metadata, performing different statistical and profiling activities in order to infer about spam. However, these approaches do not pay attention to the limitations placed over twitter’s streaming API, minimizing user’s abilities to extracting follower and followees’ data. Also, many of the approaches violate user privacy by investigating personal data about him/her without previous consent. This thesis is dedicated to studying the relationship between tweets shared by different users, particularly, content considered as spam vs. legitimate. Moreover, we will overcome the above mentioned limitations by developing a set of Message to Message analysis approaches. First, we will deploy the cosine vector similarity and later the natural language toolkit and co-occurrence model to enhance the correctness in detection. However, due to spammer’s creativity in building organic messages, hardly looking similar to old messages, these models suffer from limitations. That is why, we elaborate the use of ontologies in detecting spam over twitter during events. Our experimental results will demonstrate the efficiency of analyzing spam content/semantic relationships over twitter through ontologies.N/A1 hard copy: xii, 78 leaves; 30 cm. available at RNL.Bibliography : leaves 75-78.Lebanese American University2017-11-08T10:20:12Z2017-11-08T10:20:12Z20172017-11-082017-05-11Thesisinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesishttp://hdl.handle.net/10725/6553https://doi.org/10.26756/th.2017.21http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/thesis.phpeninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:laur.lau.edu.lb:10725/65532021-03-19T10:03:27Z
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Halawi, Bahia M.
Lebanese American University -- Dissertations
Dissertations, Academic
Spam filtering (Electronic mail)
Twitter
Ontologies (Information retrieval)
Spam (Electronic mail)
status_str publishedVersion
title Text-based framework for spam detection in Twitter. (c2017)
title_full Text-based framework for spam detection in Twitter. (c2017)
title_fullStr Text-based framework for spam detection in Twitter. (c2017)
title_full_unstemmed Text-based framework for spam detection in Twitter. (c2017)
title_short Text-based framework for spam detection in Twitter. (c2017)
title_sort Text-based framework for spam detection in Twitter. (c2017)
topic Lebanese American University -- Dissertations
Dissertations, Academic
Spam filtering (Electronic mail)
Twitter
Ontologies (Information retrieval)
Spam (Electronic mail)
url http://hdl.handle.net/10725/6553
https://doi.org/10.26756/th.2017.21
http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/thesis.php