• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.401-407
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• 2015

The increase of image spam, a kind of spam in which the text message is embedded into attached image to defeat spam filtering technique, is a major problem of the current e-mail system. For nearly a decade, content based filtering using text classification or machine learning has been a major trend of anti-spam filtering system. Recently, spammers try to defeat anti-spam filter by many techniques. Text embedding into attached image is one of them. We proposed an ontology spam filters. However, the proposed system handles only text e-mail and the percentage of attached images is increasing sharply. The contribution of the paper is that we add image e-mail handling capability into the anti-spam filtering system keeping the advantages of the previous text based spam e-mail filtering system. Also, the proposed system gives a low false negative value, which means that user's valuable e-mail is rarely regarded as a spam e-mail.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.83-89
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose an extended method of one-hot Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and evaluate the performance on spam filtering task. Most of traditional methods proposed for spam filtering task use word occurrences to represent spam or non-spam messages and all syntactic and semantic information are ignored. Major issue appears when both spam and non-spam messages share many common words and noise words. Therefore, it becomes challenging to the system to filter correct labels between spam and non-spam. Unlike previous studies on information filtering task, instead of using only word occurrence and word context as in probabilistic models, we apply a neural network-based approach to train the system filter for a better performance. In addition to one-hot representation, using term weight with attention mechanism allows classifier to focus on potential words which most likely appear in spam and non-spam collection. As a result, we obtained some improvement over the performances of the previous methods. We find out using region embedding and pooling features on the top of LSTM along with attention mechanism allows system to explore a better document representation for filtering task in general.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.105-109
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• 2006

In this paper, we constructed a two-phase spam-mail filtering system based on the lexical and conceptual information. There are two kinds of information that can distinguish the spam mail from the ham (non-spam) mail. The definite information is the mail sender's information, URL, a certain spam keyword list, and the less definite information is the word list and concept codes extracted from the mail body. We first classified the spam mail by using the definite information, and then used the less definite information. We used the lexical information and concept codes contained in the email body for SVM learning in the 2nd phase. According to our results the ham misclassification rate was reduced if more lexical information was used as features, and the spam misclassification rate was reduced when the concept codes were included in features as well.

• Journal of Information Technology Services
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.299-308
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• 2014

Due to indiscriminately received spam messages on information society, spam messages cause damages not only to person but also to our community. Nowadays a lot of spam filtering techniques, such as blocking characters, are studied actively. Most of these studies are content-based spam filtering technologies through machine learning.. Because of a spam message transmission techniques are being developed, spammers have to send spam messages using term spamming techniques. Spam messages tend to include number of nouns, using repeated words and inserting special characters between words in a sentence. In this paper, considering three features, SPSS statistical program were used in parameterization and we derive the equation. And then, based on this equation we measured the performance of classification of spam messages. The study compared with previous studies FP-rate in terms of further minimizing the cost of product was confirmed to show an excellent performance.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.48 no.6
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• pp.123-139
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• 2011

Web spam has a significant influence on the ranking quality of web search results because it promotes unimportant web pages. Therefore, web search engines need to filter web spam. web spam filtering is a concept that identifies spam pages - web pages contributing to web spam. TrustRank, Anti-TrustRank, Spam Mass, and Link Farm Spam are well-known web spam filtering algorithms in the research literature. The output of these algorithms depends upon the input seed. Thus, refinement in the input seed may lead to improvement in the quality of web spam filtering. In this paper, we propose seed refinement techniques for the four well-known spam filtering algorithms. Then, we modify algorithms, which we call modified spam filtering algorithms, by applying these techniques to the original ones. In addition, we propose a strategy to achieve better quality for web spam filtering. In this strategy, we consider the possibility that the modified algorithms may support one another if placed in appropriate succession. In the experiments we show the effect of seed refinement. For this goal, we first show that our modified algorithms outperform the respective original algorithms in terms of the quality of web spam filtering. Then, we show that the best succession significantly outperforms the best known original and the best modified algorithms by up to 1.38 times within typical value ranges of parameters in terms of recall while preserving precision.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.43 no.3
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• pp.192-202
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• 2017

This study develops a text spam filtering system for Facebook based on two variable categories: keywords learned from Instagram and meta-information of Facebook posts. Since there is no explicit labels for spam/ham posts, we utilize hash tags in Instagram to train classification models. In addition, the filtering accuracy is enhanced by considering meta-information of Facebook posts. To verify the proposed filtering system, we conduct an empirical experiment based on a total of 1,795,067 and 761,861 Facebook and Instagram documents, respectively. Employing random forest as a base classification algorithm, experimental result shows that the proposed filtering system yield 99% and 98% in terms of filtering accuracy and F1-measure, respectively. We expect that the proposed filtering scheme can be applied other web services suffering from massive spam posts but no explicit spam labels are available.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.13C no.2 s.105
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• pp.259-266
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• 2006

As the volume of spam has increased to extreme levels, many anti-spam filtering techniques have been proposed. Among these techniques, the machine-Loaming filtering technique is one of the most popular filtering techniques. In this paper, we propose a machine-learning spam filtering technique based on the neural network, the genetic algorithm and the $X^2$-statistic. This proposed filtering technique is designed to overcome the problems in existing filtering techniques, and to achieve high spam filtering accuracy. It is able to classify spam and legitimate emil with 95.25 percent and 95.31 percent accuracy. This accuracy of the sum filtering is 7.75 percent and the 12.44 percent higher than rule-based filtering and the Bayesian filtering technique, respectively.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.604-625
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• 2018

Nowadays, SMS spam has been overflowing in many countries. In fact, the standards of filtering SMS spam are different from country to country. However, the current technologies and researches about SMS spam filtering all focus on dividing SMS message into two classes: legitimate and illegitimate. It does not conform to the actual situation and need. Furthermore, they are facing several difficulties, such as: (1) High quality and large-scale SMS spam corpus is very scarce, fine categorized SMS spam corpus is even none at all. This seriously handicaps the researchers' studies. (2) The limited length of SMS messages lead to lack of enough features. These factors seriously degrade the performance of the traditional classifiers (such as SVM, K-NN, and Bayes). In this paper, we present a new fine categorized SMS spam corpus which is unique and the largest one as far as we know. In addition, we propose a classifier, which is based on the probability topic model. The classifier can alleviate feature sparse problem in the task of SMS spam filtering. Moreover, we compare the approach with three typical classifiers on the new SMS spam corpus. The experimental results show that the proposed approach is more effective for the task of SMS spam filtering.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Information Technology Applications Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.21-25
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• 2005

In this paper, we constructed a two-phase spam-mail filtering system based on the lexical and conceptual information. There are two kinds of information that can distinguish the spam mail from the legitimate mail. The definite information is the mail sender's information, URL, a certain spam list, and the less definite information is the word list and concept codes extracted from the mail body. We first classified the spam mail by using the definite information, and then used the less definite information. We used the lexical information and concept codes contained in the email body for SVM learning in the $2^{nd}$ phase. According to our results the spam precision was increased if more lexical information was used as features, and the spam recall was increased when the concept codes were included in features as well.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.10 no.1 s.18
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• pp.49-54
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• 2006

Recently, e-mail has become an important way of communications in IT societies, but it creates various social problems due to increase of spam mails. Even though many organizations and cooperation have been trying researches to develop spam mail blocking technologies, a lot of cost and system complexities are required because of varieties of spam blocking technologies. In this paper, we designed of the SMBC(Spam Mail Blocking Center) using the Fit FA(Filtering Algorithm) Finder. Fit-FA Finder that search and applises spam mail filtering algorithm of the most suitable confrontation according to type of spam mail. The system of spam mail filtering is decided performance of the system by procedure that spam filter is used. Go through designed Fit-FA Finder and reduced unnecessary filtering process and processing time and load than appointment order filter application way of existent spam mail interception system.