Discriminative topic mining for social spam detection

Proceedings - Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, PACIS 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Song, Long ^a   Lau, Raymond Y K ^a   Yin, Chunxiao ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b University of Science and Technology of China   (United States)

Author keywords

Labeled LDA; Latent semantics; Machine learning; Social media; Social spam; Spam detection; Support vector machine; Topic model

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA MINING; FILTRATION; INTERNET; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; STATISTICS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

LABELED LDA; LATENT SEMANTICS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL SPAM; SPAM DETECTION; TOPIC MODELING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84928623378     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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