@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}

}

@article{saidani_supervised_2017,

title = {A supervised approach for spam detection using text-based semantic representation},

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

editor = {Aimeur E. Weiss M. Ruhi U.},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85019905686&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-319-59041-7_8&partnerID=40&md5=f416f274d5e08603fa6d1ec9a4cf9c43},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-59041-7_8},

issn = {18651348},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

journal = {Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing},

volume = {289},

pages = {136–148},

abstract = {In this paper, we propose an approach for email spam detection based on text semantic analysis at two levels. The first level allows categorization of emails by specific domains (e.g., health, education, finance, etc.). The second level uses semantic features for spam detection in each specific domain. We show that the proposed method provides an efficient representation of internal semantic structure of email content which allows for more precise and interpretable spam filtering results compared to existing methods. © Springer International Publishing AG 2017.},

note = {ISBN: 9783319590400 

Publisher: Springer Verlag},

keywords = {Domain categorization, E-mail spam, Electronic mail, Feature extraction, Semantic analysis, Semantic features, Semantic representation, Semantic structures, Semantics, Spam detection, Spam filtering},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}