Email Spam Classification: A Machine Learning Approach

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Abstract

Email spamming is one of the most common scams that are occurring nowadays. In this method, an email, seemingly sent from a trusted address or sender, can be used for various purposes, including advertisement, commercial and non-commercial intents. Furthermore, it may contain content harmful to the recipient, a tactic known as phishing. Despite several email spam blocking mechanisms employed by the email service providers, it is still a major issue to handle. In this paper, several machine learning algorithms have been investigated over a realistic dataset including (but not limited to) Naïve Bayes (NB), Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Decision Tree (DT) classifiers. Among them Naïve Bayes classifier exhibited the highest accuracy at 99.8% followed by AdaBoost at 96.7%. Analyses showed scheme was promising in terms of accuracy and it outperformed various state-of-the-art approaches in the literature upon comparison.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHybrid Intelligent Systems - 23rd International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, HIS 2023
EditorsAnu Bajaj, Ana Maria Madureira, Ajith Abraham
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages137-146
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783031789243
DOIs
StatePublished - 2025
Event23rd International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, HIS 2023 - Vilnius, Lithuania
Duration: 11 Dec 202313 Dec 2023

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Networks and Systems
Volume1224 LNNS
ISSN (Print)2367-3370
ISSN (Electronic)2367-3389

Conference

Conference23rd International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, HIS 2023
Country/TerritoryLithuania
CityVilnius
Period11/12/2313/12/23

Keywords

  • Decision tree (DT)
  • Email Spam Classification
  • Machine Learning
  • Naïve bayes (NB)
  • Support Vector machine (SVM)

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