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Document Type
Article
Source of Publication
PeerJ Computer Science
Publication Date
1-20-2022
Abstract
The presence of spam content in social media is tremendously increasing, and therefore the detection of spam has become vital. The spam contents increase as people extensively use social media, i.e ., Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and E-mail. The time spent by people using social media is overgrowing, especially in the time of the pandemic. Users get a lot of text messages through social media, and they cannot recognize the spam content in these messages. Spam messages contain malicious links, apps, fake accounts, fake news, reviews, rumors, etc. To improve social media security, the detection and control of spam text are essential. This paper presents a detailed survey on the latest developments in spam text detection and classification in social media. The various techniques involved in spam detection and classification involving Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and text-based approaches are discussed in this paper. We also present the challenges encountered in the identification of spam with its control mechanisms and datasets used in existing works involving spam detection.
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Publisher
PeerJ
Volume
8
Disciplines
Computer Sciences | Linguistics
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Kaddoura, Sanaa; Chandrasekaran, Ganesh; Popescu, Daniela Elena; and Duraisamy, Jude Hemanth, "A systematic literature review on spam content detection and classification" (2022). All Works. 4833.
https://zuscholars.zu.ac.ae/works/4833
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Open Access
yes
Open Access Type
Gold: This publication is openly available in an open access journal/series