Spam review classification using ensemble of global and local feature selectors

Abstract

In our work, we propose an ensemble of local and global filter-based feature selection method to reduce the high dimensionality of feature space and increase accuracy of spam review classification. These selected features are then used for training various classifiers for spam detection. Experimental results with four classifiers on two available datasets of hotel reviews show that the proposed feature selector improves the performance of spam classification in terms of well-known performance metrics such as AUC score.