An Automated System to Filter Unwanted Message from OSN User wall

Abstract: One fundamental issue in today On-line Social Networks (OSNs) is to give users the ability to control the messages posted on their own private space to avoid that unwanted content is displayed. Up to now OSNs provide little support to this requirement. To overcome this problem, we propose a system allowing OSN users to have a direct control on the messages posted on their walls. This is achieved through a flexible rule-based system, that allows users to customize the filtering criteria to be matter-of-fact to their walls, and a Machine Learning based soft classifier automatically labelling messages in content-based filtering.

Keywords: Facebook, Filtered walls, Machine Learning, Filtering Rules, Text Categorization.