InterSpot: Interactive Spammer Detection in Social Media

InterSpot: Interactive Spammer Detection in Social Media

Kaize Ding, Jundong Li, Shivam Dhar, Shreyash Devan, Huan Liu

Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Spammer detection in social media has recently received increasing attention due to the rocketing growth of user-generated data. Despite the empirical success of existing systems, spammers may continuously evolve over time to impersonate normal users while new types of spammers may also emerge to combat with the current detection system, leading to the fact that a built system will gradually lose its efficacy in spotting spammers. To address this issue, grounded on the contextual bandit model, we present a novel system for conducting interactive spammer detection. We demonstrate our system by showcasing the interactive learning process, which allows the detection model to keep optimizing its detection strategy through incorporating the feedback information from human experts.
Keywords:
AI: Human-Computer Interactive Systems
AI: Machine Learning
Applications: Public services and social systems
AI: AI Modelling and Simulation