Recent developments in social spam detection and combating techniques: A survey

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Highlights:

• Social networking and instant multimedia communication is integral to online existence.

• Spamming is a new menace in messaging, blogs, video sites, internet telephony etc.

• The article surveys recent developments on social spam detection and mitigation.

• A qualitative comparison of different models and their performances are presented.

• A roadmap on how newer anti-spam techniques can be devised in future is provided.

摘要

•Social networking and instant multimedia communication is integral to online existence.•Spamming is a new menace in messaging, blogs, video sites, internet telephony etc.•The article surveys recent developments on social spam detection and mitigation.•A qualitative comparison of different models and their performances are presented.•A roadmap on how newer anti-spam techniques can be devised in future is provided.

论文关键词:Social spam,Social networks,Spam filtering

论文评审过程:Received 26 February 2014, Revised 17 April 2016, Accepted 26 April 2016, Available online 6 May 2016, Version of Record 28 September 2016.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2016.04.009