Novel email spam detection method using sentiment analysis and personality recognition

Unsolicited email campaigns remain as one of the biggest threats affecting millions of users per day. During the past years several techniques to detect unsolicited emails have been developed. This work provides means to validate the hypothesis that the identification of the email messages’ intentio...

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Published in:Logic journal of the IGPL 2020-02, Vol.28 (1), p.83-94
Main Authors: Ezpeleta, Enaitz, Velez de Mendizabal, Iñaki, Hidalgo, José María Gómez, Zurutuza, Urko
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:Unsolicited email campaigns remain as one of the biggest threats affecting millions of users per day. During the past years several techniques to detect unsolicited emails have been developed. This work provides means to validate the hypothesis that the identification of the email messages’ intention can be approached by sentiment analysis and personality recognition techniques. These techniques will provide new features that improve current spam classification techniques. We combine personality recognition and sentiment analysis techniques to analyse email content. We enrich a publicly available dataset adding these features, first separately and after in combination, of each message to the dataset, creating new datasets. We apply several combinations of the best email spam classifiers and filters to each dataset in order to compare results.
ISSN:1367-0751
1368-9894
DOI:10.1093/jigpal/jzz073