Camouflaged Chinese Spam Content Detection with Semi-supervised Generative Active Learning

Zhuoren Jiang, Zhe Gao, Yu Duan, Yangyang Kang, Changlong Sun, Qiong Zhang, Xiaozhong Liu
2020 Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics   unpublished
We propose a Semi-supervIsed GeNerative Active Learning (SIGNAL) model to address the imbalance, efficiency, and text camouflage problems of Chinese text spam detection task. A "self-diversity" criterion is proposed for measuring the "worthiness" of a candidate for annotation. A semi-supervised variational autoencoder with masked attention learning approach and a character variation graph-enhanced augmentation procedure are proposed for data augmentation. The preliminary experiment demonstrates
more » ... the proposed SIGNAL model is not only sensitive to spam sample selection, but also can improve the performance of a series of conventional active learning models for Chinese spam detection task. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to integrate active learning and semisupervised generative learning for text spam detection.
doi:10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.279 fatcat:vd5q67cgmnddrbqg3hk2gofk34