Context-dependent model for spam detection on social networks

Abstract

Social media platforms are getting an important communication medium in our daily life, and their increasing popularity makes them an ideal platform for spammers to spread spam messages, known as spam problems. Moreover, messages on social media are vague and messy, so a good representation of the text may be the first step to address spam problem. While traditional weighting methods suffer from both high dimensionality and high sparsity problems, traditional word embedding methods suffer from context independence and out of vocabulary problems. To overcome these problems, in this study, we propose a novel architecture based on a context-dependent representation of text using the BERT model. The model was tested using the Twitter dataset, and experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms traditional weighting methods, traditional word embedding based methods as well as the existing state of the art methods used to detect spam on the twitter platform.