scholarly journals Enhanced Classification Method for Phishing Emails Detection

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-63
Author(s):  
Y. Mansour Mansour ◽  
Majed A. Alenizi

Emails are currently the main communication method worldwide as it proven in its efficiency. Phishing emails in the other hand is one of the major threats which results in significant losses, estimated at billions of dollars. Phishing emails is a more dynamic problem, a struggle between the phishers and defenders where the phishers have more flexibility in manipulating the emails features and evading the anti-phishing techniques. Many solutions have been proposed to mitigate the phishing emails impact on the targeted sectors, but none have achieved 100% detection and accuracy. As phishing techniques are evolving, the solutions need to be evolved and generalized in order to mitigate as much as possible. This article presents a new emergent classification model based on hybrid feature selection method that combines two common feature selection methods, Information Gain and Genetic Algorithm that keep only significant and high-quality features in the final classifier. The Proposed hybrid approach achieved 98.9% accuracy rate against phishing emails dataset comprising 8266 instances and results depict enhancement by almost 4%. Furthermore, the presented technique has contributed to reducing the search space by reducing the number of selected features.

Author(s):  
GULDEN UCHYIGIT ◽  
KEITH CLARK

Text classification is the problem of classifying a set of documents into a pre-defined set of classes. A major problem with text classification problems is the high dimensionality of the feature space. Only a small subset of these words are feature words which can be used in determining a document's class, while the rest adds noise and can make the results unreliable and significantly increase computational time. A common approach in dealing with this problem is feature selection where the number of words in the feature space are significantly reduced. In this paper we present the experiments of a comparative study of feature selection methods used for text classification. Ten feature selection methods were evaluated in this study including the new feature selection method, called the GU metric. The other feature selection methods evaluated in this study are: Chi-Squared (χ2) statistic, NGL coefficient, GSS coefficient, Mutual Information, Information Gain, Odds Ratio, Term Frequency, Fisher Criterion, BSS/WSS coefficient. The experimental evaluations show that the GU metric obtained the best F1 and F2 scores. The experiments were performed on the 20 Newsgroups data sets with the Naive Bayesian Probabilistic Classifier.


2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 1122-1134
Author(s):  
H. M. Keerthi Kumar ◽  
B. S. Harish

Abstract In recent internet era, micro-blogging sites produce enormous amount of short textual information, which appears in the form of opinions or sentiments of users. Sentiment analysis is a challenging task in short text, due to use of formal language, misspellings, and shortened forms of words, which leads to high dimensionality and sparsity. In order to deal with these challenges, this paper proposes a novel, simple, and yet effective feature selection method, to select frequently distributed features related to each class. In this paper, the feature selection method is based on class-wise information, to identify the relevant feature related to each class. We evaluate the proposed feature selection method by comparing with existing feature selection methods like chi-square ( χ2), entropy, information gain, and mutual information. The performances are evaluated using classification accuracy obtained from support vector machine, K nearest neighbors, and random forest classifiers on two publically available datasets viz., Stanford Twitter dataset and Ravikiran Janardhana dataset. In order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed feature selection method, we conducted extensive experimentation by selecting different feature sets. The proposed feature selection method outperforms the existing feature selection methods in terms of classification accuracy on the Stanford Twitter dataset. Similarly, the proposed method performs competently equally in terms of classification accuracy compared to other feature selection methods in most of the feature subsets on Ravikiran Janardhana dataset.


2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (8) ◽  
pp. 912-926
Author(s):  
Ge Zhang ◽  
Pan Yu ◽  
Jianlin Wang ◽  
Chaokun Yan

Background: There have been rapid developments in various bioinformatics technologies, which have led to the accumulation of a large amount of biomedical data. However, these datasets usually involve thousands of features and include much irrelevant or redundant information, which leads to confusion during diagnosis. Feature selection is a solution that consists of finding the optimal subset, which is known to be an NP problem because of the large search space. Objective: For the issue, this paper proposes a hybrid feature selection method based on an improved chemical reaction optimization algorithm (ICRO) and an information gain (IG) approach, which called IGICRO. Methods: IG is adopted to obtain some important features. The neighborhood search mechanism is combined with ICRO to increase the diversity of the population and improve the capacity of local search. Results: Experimental results of eight public available data sets demonstrate that our proposed approach outperforms original CRO and other state-of-the-art approaches.


Author(s):  
Fatemeh Alighardashi ◽  
Mohammad Ali Zare Chahooki

Improving the software product quality before releasing by periodic tests is one of the most expensive activities in software projects. Due to limited resources to modules test in software projects, it is important to identify fault-prone modules and use the test sources for fault prediction in these modules. Software fault predictors based on machine learning algorithms, are effective tools for identifying fault-prone modules. Extensive studies are being done in this field to find the connection between features of software modules, and their fault-prone. Some of features in predictive algorithms are ineffective and reduce the accuracy of prediction process. So, feature selection methods to increase performance of prediction models in fault-prone modules are widely used. In this study, we proposed a feature selection method for effective selection of features, by using combination of filter feature selection methods. In the proposed filter method, the combination of several filter feature selection methods presented as fused weighed filter method. Then, the proposed method caused convergence rate of feature selection as well as the accuracy improvement. The obtained results on NASA and PROMISE with ten datasets, indicates the effectiveness of proposed method in improvement of accuracy and convergence of software fault prediction.


Author(s):  
B. Venkatesh ◽  
J. Anuradha

In Microarray Data, it is complicated to achieve more classification accuracy due to the presence of high dimensions, irrelevant and noisy data. And also It had more gene expression data and fewer samples. To increase the classification accuracy and the processing speed of the model, an optimal number of features need to extract, this can be achieved by applying the feature selection method. In this paper, we propose a hybrid ensemble feature selection method. The proposed method has two phases, filter and wrapper phase in filter phase ensemble technique is used for aggregating the feature ranks of the Relief, minimum redundancy Maximum Relevance (mRMR), and Feature Correlation (FC) filter feature selection methods. This paper uses the Fuzzy Gaussian membership function ordering for aggregating the ranks. In wrapper phase, Improved Binary Particle Swarm Optimization (IBPSO) is used for selecting the optimal features, and the RBF Kernel-based Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier is used as an evaluator. The performance of the proposed model are compared with state of art feature selection methods using five benchmark datasets. For evaluation various performance metrics such as Accuracy, Recall, Precision, and F1-Score are used. Furthermore, the experimental results show that the performance of the proposed method outperforms the other feature selection methods.


Author(s):  
E. MONTAÑÉS ◽  
J. R. QUEVEDO ◽  
E. F. COMBARRO ◽  
I. DÍAZ ◽  
J. RANILLA

Feature Selection is an important task within Text Categorization, where irrelevant or noisy features are usually present, causing a lost in the performance of the classifiers. Feature Selection in Text Categorization has usually been performed using a filtering approach based on selecting the features with highest score according to certain measures. Measures of this kind come from the Information Retrieval, Information Theory and Machine Learning fields. However, wrapper approaches are known to perform better in Feature Selection than filtering approaches, although they are time-consuming and sometimes infeasible, especially in text domains. However a wrapper that explores a reduced number of feature subsets and that uses a fast method as evaluation function could overcome these difficulties. The wrapper presented in this paper satisfies these properties. Since exploring a reduced number of subsets could result in less promising subsets, a hybrid approach, that combines the wrapper method and some scoring measures, allows to explore more promising feature subsets. A comparison among some scoring measures, the wrapper method and the hybrid approach is performed. The results reveal that the hybrid approach outperforms both the wrapper approach and the scoring measures, particularly for corpora whose features are less scattered over the categories.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (9) ◽  
pp. 2910
Author(s):  
Kei Suzuki ◽  
Tipporn Laohakangvalvit ◽  
Ryota Matsubara ◽  
Midori Sugaya

In human emotion estimation using an electroencephalogram (EEG) and heart rate variability (HRV), there are two main issues as far as we know. The first is that measurement devices for physiological signals are expensive and not easy to wear. The second is that unnecessary physiological indexes have not been removed, which is likely to decrease the accuracy of machine learning models. In this study, we used single-channel EEG sensor and photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor, which are inexpensive and easy to wear. We collected data from 25 participants (18 males and 7 females) and used a deep learning algorithm to construct an emotion classification model based on Arousal–Valence space using several feature combinations obtained from physiological indexes selected based on our criteria including our proposed feature selection methods. We then performed accuracy verification, applying a stratified 10-fold cross-validation method to the constructed models. The results showed that model accuracies are as high as 90% to 99% by applying the features selection methods we proposed, which suggests that a small number of physiological indexes, even from inexpensive sensors, can be used to construct an accurate emotion classification model if an appropriate feature selection method is applied. Our research results contribute to the improvement of an emotion classification model with a higher accuracy, less cost, and that is less time consuming, which has the potential to be further applied to various areas of applications.


2010 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. CIN.S3794 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaosheng Wang ◽  
Osamu Gotoh

Gene selection is of vital importance in molecular classification of cancer using high-dimensional gene expression data. Because of the distinct characteristics inherent to specific cancerous gene expression profiles, developing flexible and robust feature selection methods is extremely crucial. We investigated the properties of one feature selection approach proposed in our previous work, which was the generalization of the feature selection method based on the depended degree of attribute in rough sets. We compared the feature selection method with the established methods: the depended degree, chi-square, information gain, Relief-F and symmetric uncertainty, and analyzed its properties through a series of classification experiments. The results revealed that our method was superior to the canonical depended degree of attribute based method in robustness and applicability. Moreover, the method was comparable to the other four commonly used methods. More importantly, the method can exhibit the inherent classification difficulty with respect to different gene expression datasets, indicating the inherent biology of specific cancers.


2016 ◽  
Vol 78 (8-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jafreezal Jaafar ◽  
Zul Indra ◽  
Nurshuhaini Zamin

Text classification (TC) provides a better way to organize information since it allows better understanding and interpretation of the content. It deals with the assignment of labels into a group of similar textual document. However, TC research for Asian language documents is relatively limited compared to English documents and even lesser particularly for news articles. Apart from that, TC research to classify textual documents in similar morphology such Indonesian and Malay is still scarce. Hence, the aim of this study is to develop an integrated generic TC algorithm which is able to identify the language and then classify the category for identified news documents. Furthermore, top-n feature selection method is utilized to improve TC performance and to overcome the online news corpora classification challenges: rapid data growth of online news documents, and the high computational time. Experiments were conducted using 280 Indonesian and 280 Malay online news documents from the year 2014 – 2015. The classification method is proven to produce a good result with accuracy rate of up to 95.63% for language identification, and 97.5%% for category classification. While the category classifier works optimally on n = 60%, with an average of 35 seconds computational time. This highlights that the integrated generic TC has advantage over manual classification, and is suitable for Indonesian and Malay news classification.


2010 ◽  
Vol 44-47 ◽  
pp. 1130-1134
Author(s):  
Sheng Li ◽  
Pei Lin Zhang ◽  
Bing Li

Feature selection is a key step in hydraulic system fault diagnosis. Some of the collected features are unrelated to classification model, and some are high correlated to other features. These features are harmful for establishing classification model. In order to solve this problem, genetic algorithm-partial least squares (GA-PLS) is proposed for selecting the representative and optimal features. K nearest neighbor algorithm (KNN) is used for diagnosing and classifying hydraulic system faults. For expressing better performance of GA-PLS, the original data of a model engineering hydraulic system is used, and the results of GA-PLS are compared with all feature used and GA. The experimental results show that, the proposed feature method can diagnose and classify hydraulic system faults more efficiently with using fewer features.


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