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Incremental information gain analysis of input attribute impact on RBF-Kernel SVM spam detection

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He, Hongmei, Tiwari, Ashutosh, Mehnen, Jorn, Watson, Tim, Maple, Carsten, Jin, Yaochu and Gabrys, Bogdan (2016) Incremental information gain analysis of input attribute impact on RBF-Kernel SVM spam detection. In: 2016 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Canada, 24-29 Jul 2016. Published in: 2016 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) ISBN 9781509006236. doi:10.1109/CEC.2016.7743901

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2016.7743901

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Abstract

The massive increase of spam is posing a very serious threat to email and SMS, which have become an important means of communication. Not only do spams annoy users, but they also become a security threat. Machine learning techniques have been widely used for spam detection. Email spams can be detected through detecting senders' behaviour, the contents of an email, subject and source address, etc, while SMS spam detection usually is based on the tokens or features of messages due to short content. However, a comprehensive analysis of email/SMS content may provide cures for users to aware of email/SMS spams. We cannot completely depend on automatic tools to identify all spams. In this paper, we propose an analysis approach based on information entropy and incremental learning to see how various features affect the performance of an RBF-based SVM spam detector, so that to increase our awareness of a spam by sensing the features of a spam. The experiments were carried out on the spambase and SMSSpemCollection databases in UCI machine learning repository. The results show that some features have significant impacts on spam detection, of which users should be aware, and there exists a feature space that achieves Pareto efficiency in True Positive Rate and True Negative Rate.

Item Type: Conference Item (Paper)
Divisions: Faculty of Science > WMG (Formerly the Warwick Manufacturing Group)
Journal or Publication Title: 2016 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC)
Publisher: IEEE
ISBN: 9781509006236
Official Date: 21 November 2016
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21 November 2016Published
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2016.7743901
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Conference Paper Type: Paper
Title of Event: 2016 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation
Type of Event: Conference
Location of Event: Canada
Date(s) of Event: 24-29 Jul 2016
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