AMITY UNIVERSITY

Uttar Pradesh Lucknow Campus

Amity Institute of Information Technology
WEEKLY PROGRESS REPORT
For the week commencing from: 12 June 2023 – 18 June 2023

WPR No. 2

Name of the student: Shaurya Upadhyay

Enrollment Number: A7304822105

Program: Bachelor of Computer Applications (2019-2022) Semester: II

Name of the Non-Teaching Credit Course: Summer Internship – 1 [ETTP100]

Organization Name: AIIT, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow

Faculty Guide’s Name: Dr. Ajay Pratap

Project Title: Detecting Fraud Apps Using Sentiment Analysis Using Machine Learning

Targets set for the week
Here is a breakdown of
suggested targets for each day
of the week in the project
"Detecting Fraud Apps Using
Sentiment Analysis Using
Machine Learning":
Monday:
1. Collect and preprocess a
substantial dataset of app
reviews, ensuring data quality
and addressing any missing
values or inconsistencies.
2. Perform exploratory data
Achievements for the week
.
Here are suggested
achievements for each day of
the week in the project
"Detecting Fraud Apps Using
Sentiment Analysis Using
Machine Learning": Monday:
1. Conducted a comprehensive
literature review on fraud
detection in mobile apps,
sentiment analysis techniques,
and machine learning
algorithms. 2. Defined the
project's objectives, scope,
and success criteria. 3. Set up
Future work plans
Here are suggested future
work plans for each day of the
week in the project "Detecting
Fraud Apps Using Sentiment
Analysis Using Machine
Learning": Monday: 1.
Explore advanced sentiment
analysis techniques, such as
deep learning models or
transformer-based models, to
improve the accuracy and
granularity of sentiment
analysis. 2. Investigate the use
of domain-specific sentiment
analysis to gain insights into
the distribution of app
reviews, sentiment, and
potential fraud patterns.
3. Implement a baseline
sentiment analysis model
using a machine learning
algorithm, such as Naive
Bayes or logistic regression,
and evaluate its performance.
4. Set up the project
repository, organize the
project structure, and define
the necessary dependencies.
Tuesday:
1. Research and experiment
with advanced sentiment
analysis techniques, such as
deep learning models (e.g.,
LSTM, CNN) or transformer-
based models (e.g., BERT,
GPT), to improve sentiment
analysis accuracy.
2. Explore methods for
addressing the challenges of
sentiment analysis in app
reviews, such as handling
domain-specific language,
sarcasm, or context ambiguity.
3. Train and fine-tune the
advanced sentiment analysis
model using a labeled dataset,
and evaluate its performance
against the baseline model.
4. Document the
experimentation process,
including model architectures,
hyperparameters, and
performance results.
the development environment,
including necessary libraries
and frameworks. 4. Gathered a
diverse dataset of app reviews,
both
lexicons or pre-trained
language models tailored for
app reviews to capture
nuances and domain-specific
language. 3. Experiment with
different text preprocessing
techniques, such as stemming,
lemmatization, or part-of-
speech tagging, to further
enhance the quality of the text
data. 4. Consider
incorporating semantic
analysis or entity recognition
to extract additional
information from the app
reviews. Tuesday: 1.
Research and implement
advanced feature engineering
techniques, such as word
embeddings (e.g., Word2Vec,
GloVe) or contextualized
embeddings (e.g., BERT,
ELMo), to capture richer
semantic information in the
app reviews. 2. Explore the
use of topic modeling
algorithms, such as Latent
Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) or
Non-Negative Matrix
Factorization (NMF), to
identify key topics or themes
in the app reviews related to
fraud. 3. Investigate the
potential impact of temporal
features, such as review
timestamps or release dates,
on fraud detection and
incorporate them into the
feature extraction pipeline. 4.
Consider feature engineering
techniques specific to fraud
Wednesday:
1. Investigate fraud detection
techniques that can be applied
to app reviews, considering
approaches like anomaly
detection, supervised
classification, or unsupervised
clustering.
2. Implement a fraud detection
model using machine learning
algorithms like random
forests, support vector
machines, or ensemble
methods, and evaluate its
performance.
3. Explore techniques to
handle class imbalance in the
dataset, such as oversampling,
undersampling, or generating
synthetic samples.
4. Compare and analyze the
results of the fraud detection
model against the baseline
sentiment analysis model,
identifying strengths and
weaknesses.
Thursday:
1. Research and implement
techniques to enhance fraud
detection using contextual
information, such as user
behavior, app metadata, or
review timestamps.
2. Evaluate the impact of
incorporating additional
features, such as user ratings,
app category, or reviewer
reputation, on fraud detection
performance.
3. Experiment with feature
detection, such as extracting
linguistic patterns or syntactic
structures indicative of
fraudulent reviews.
Wednesday: 1. Experiment
with different machine
learning algorithms, such as
gradient boosting machines,
deep neural networks, or
hybrid models, to improve the
fraud detection performance.
2. Explore techniques to
address model interpretability,
such as SHAP values, LIME,
or rule-based approaches, to
provide explanations for the
predictions made by the
machine learning models. 3.
Investigate the use of active
learning strategies to
iteratively label and
incorporate additional high-
impact data points into the
training process, improving
the model's performance over
time. 4. Consider
incorporating external data
sources, such as social media
feeds or user behavior data, to
enrich the fraud detection
models and capture additional
signals. Thursday: 1.
Experiment with ensemble
learning techniques, such as
stacking, blending, or model
averaging, to combine the
predictions of multiple
machine learning models and
further boost fraud detection
performance. 2. Investigate
techniques for model
selection or dimensionality
reduction techniques to
improve model efficiency and
reduce overfitting.
4. Conduct a thorough
evaluation of the fraud
detection model, considering
performance metrics like
accuracy, precision, recall, F1-
score, and area under the ROC
curve.
Friday:
1. Investigate methods to
interpret and explain the
predictions of the fraud
detection model, such as
feature importance analysis or
model-agnostic techniques.
2. Assess the robustness and
generalizability of the fraud
detection model by
conducting cross-validation or
testing on external datasets.
3. Explore techniques to
mitigate biases in the fraud
detection model, ensuring fair
and unbiased predictions
across different user groups or
app categories.
4. Document the model
evaluation results, including
performance metrics,
interpretability analysis, and
discussions on biases and
limitations.
Saturday:
1. Prepare a comprehensive
project report summarizing
the methodology, findings,
calibration to ensure well-
calibrated probability
estimates, allowing for more
reliable decision-making. 3.
Explore transfer learning
approaches, where knowledge
learned from related tasks or
domains can be leveraged to
improve fraud detection in app
reviews. 4. Consider the
potential impact of adversarial
attacks and explore techniques
to enhance the robustness of
the fraud detection models
against such attacks. Friday:
1. Evaluate the scalability and
efficiency of the fraud
detection system, considering
factors such as computational
resources, response time, and
memory requirements. 2.
Investigate the potential for
deploying the fraud detection
system in a real-time or
streaming environment,
enabling continuous
monitoring of app reviews for
fraud detection. 3. Conduct
rigorous testing and validation
of the entire system,
considering various scenarios,
edge cases, and real-world
data. 4. Perform a comparative
analysis of the developed
system against existing fraud
detection methods or
commercial solutions,
highlighting the strengths and
limitations of the proposed
approach. Saturday: 1.
Prepare a detailed
and conclusions of the project. documentation of the project,
2. Create visualizations and including the implemented
presentations to effectively methodologies, findings,
communicate the results and challenges faced, and lessons
insights gained from the fraud learned. 2. Reflect on the
detection model. limitations and potential
3. Reflect on the project's ethical considerations of the
limitations, challenges faced, developed fraud detection
and potential future directions system, addressing issues such
for improving the fraud as bias, privacy, or fairness. 3.
detection system. Explore possibilities for
4. Conduct a final review of collaboration or further
the project deliverables, research in the field of fraud
ensuring all code, detection in mobile apps,
documentation, and sentiment analysis, or related
supplementary materials are areas. 4. Present the project's
organized and complete. outcomes and insights to
stakeholders, such as the
Remember to adjust the project team, advisors, or
targets based on the specific potential users, and gather
requirements and timeline of feedback for future
your project. Regularly improvements. Remember to
communicate with your team adjust
members, seek guidance from
mentors or advisors, and track
progress to ensure successful
completion of the project.

Signature of the Student: ___Shaurya Upadhyay____________________

(Name of Student)

Signature of the Faculty Guide: __________________

(Name of Guide)