A multi-level approach to highly efficient recognition of Chinese spam short messages

Abstract

The problem of spam short message (SMS) recognition involves many aspects of natural language processing. A good solution to solving the problem can not only improve the quality of people experiencing the mobile life, but also has a positive role on promoting the analysis of short text occurring in current mobile applications, such as Webchat and microblog. As spam SMSes have characteristics of sparsity, transformation and real-timedness, we propose three methods at different levels, i.e., recognition based on symbolic features, recognition based on text similarity, and recognition based on pattern matching. By combining these methods, we obtain a multi-level approach to spam SMS recognition. In order to enrich the pattern base to reduce manual labor and time, we propose a quasi-pattern learning method, which utilizes quasi-pattern matching results in the pattern matching process. Themethod can learnmany interesting and new patterns from the SMS corpus. Finally, a comprehensive analysis indicates that our spam SMS recognition approach achieves a precision rate as high as 95.18%, and a recall rate of 95.51%.

Keywords

spam short message / spam recognition / similarity computing / pattern learning

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