@article{saidani_semantic-based_2020,

title = {A semantic-based classification approach for an enhanced spam detection},

author = {N. Saidani and K. Adi and M. S. Allili},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85084283123&doi=10.1016%2fj.cose.2020.101716&partnerID=40&md5=539ac0fc0a7144fe983f514175a138e2},

doi = {10.1016/j.cose.2020.101716},

issn = {01674048 (ISSN)},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

journal = {Computers and Security},

volume = {94},

abstract = {In this paper, we explore the use of a text semantic analysis to improve the accuracy of spam detection. We propose a method based on two semantic level analysis. In the first level, we categorize emails by specific domains (e.g., Health, Education, Finance, etc.) to enable a separate conceptual view for spams in each domain. In the second level, we combine a set of manually-specified and automatically-extracted semantic features for spam detection in each domain. These features are meant to summarize the email content into compact topics discriminating spam from non-spam emails in an efficient way. We show that the proposed method enables a better spam detection compared to existing methods based on bag-of-words (BoW) and semantic content, and leads to more interpretable results. © 2020},

note = {Publisher: Elsevier Ltd},

keywords = {Classification, Classification approach, Conceptual views, Domain-specific analysis, Electronic mail, Email content, Multilevel analysis, Semantic analysis, Semantic content, Semantic features, Semantic levels, Semantics, Spam detection},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}