Spam Detection With Fasttext Based Features

Fasttext is a powerful word representation method that creates word representations based on vectors of character n-grams. In this work, we propose a method that utilizes fasttext features for a novel feature engineering model for the spam detection problem. In the feature engineering method, the combination of average, mean of second derivative; mean peak and standard deviation of fasttext features are computed. Finally, tf-idf features are also considered for the modeling process. The success of each feature engineering technique is measured and reported. The combination of the five feature extraction methods, tested on two spam detection datasets, yielded promising results with an accuracy of 0.978 on e-mail spam detection and an accuracy of 0.986 on sms spam classification.