AMITY UNIVERSITY

Uttar Pradesh Lucknow Campus

Amity Institute of Information Technology
WEEKLY PROGRESS REPORT
For the week commencing from: 5 June 2023 – 9 June 2023

WPR No. 1

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. Gather a comprehensive
dataset of app reviews,
including both legitimate and
fraudulent samples, from
various app marketplaces or
sources. 2. Preprocess the
dataset by cleaning and
normalizing the text data,
removing irrelevant
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
the development environment,
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
lexicons or pre-trained
information, and handling any
missing or noisy data. 3.
Explore and implement
different sentiment analysis
techniques, such as lexicon-
based approaches, machine
learning models, or pre-
trained language models, to
extract sentiment information
from the app reviews. 4.
Evaluate the performance of
the sentiment analysis models
using appropriate metrics and
select the most effective
approach for further
development. Tuesday: 1.
Design and implement a
feature extraction pipeline that
transforms the preprocessed
app reviews into numerical
features, considering aspects
such as sentiment scores,
textual representations, or
other relevant information. 2.
Explore additional features or
metadata that can be
incorporated into the feature
extraction process to enhance
fraud detection, such as user
demographics, app ratings, or
temporal information. 3.
Analyze the feature
importance and relevance to
fraud detection using
techniques like correlation
analysis or feature selection
algorithms.
4. Prepare the feature dataset,
ensuring it is properly
formatted and compatible with
the selected machine learning
including necessary libraries
and frameworks. 4. Gathered a
diverse dataset of app reviews,
both legitimate and fraudulent,
from various sources or app
marketplaces. Tuesday: 1.
Preprocessed the dataset by
cleaning and normalizing the
text data, removing stop
words, and handling missing
or noisy data. 2. Performed
exploratory data analysis on
the dataset, gaining insights
into the distribution of ratings,
review lengths, and sentiment
distribution. 3. Implemented
sentiment analysis techniques,
such as lexicon-based
approaches or machine
learning models, and
evaluated their performance.
4. Selected the most effective
sentiment analysis approach
for further development.
Wednesday: 1. Designed and
implemented a feature
extraction pipeline that
transformed the preprocessed
app reviews into numerical
features, incorporating
sentiment scores and other
relevant information. 2.
Explored additional features
or metadata to enhance fraud
detection, such as user
demographics, app ratings, or
temporal information. 3.
Analyzed feature importance
and relevance using
techniques like correlation
analysis or feature selection
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
detection, such as extracting
algorithms. Wednesday:
1. Research and select suitable
machine learning algorithms
for fraud detection, such as
logistic regression, support
vector machines, random
forests, or neural networks
. 2. Implement the chosen
machine learning algorithms
and train them using the
prepared feature dataset,
applying appropriate data
splitting techniques (e.g.,
cross-validation) to assess
their performance.
3. Optimize the
hyperparameters of the
machine learning models
using techniques like grid
search, random search, or
Bayesian optimization to
improve their accuracy and
generalization capabilities.
4. Evaluate the trained
machine learning models
using various performance
metrics, including accuracy,
precision, recall, F1-score, or
area under the ROC curve.
Thursday: 1. Explore
techniques to handle class
imbalance in the dataset, as
fraud cases are typically rare
compared to legitimate cases.
Consider approaches like
oversampling, undersampling,
or class-weighted techniques
to address this issue. 2.
Investigate ensemble learning
methods, such as bagging or
algorithms. 4. Prepared the
feature dataset, ensuring it
was properly formatted and
compatible with the chosen
machine learning algorithms.
Thursday: 1. Researched and
selected suitable machine
learning algorithms for fraud
detection, such as logistic
regression, support vector
machines, random forests, or
neural networks. 2.
Implemented the chosen
machine learning algorithms
and trained them using the
prepared feature dataset. 3.
Optimized the
hyperparameters of the
machine learning models
using techniques like grid
search, random search, or
Bayesian optimization. 4.
Evaluated the trained machine
learning models using various
performance metrics, such as
accuracy, precision, recall, F1-
score, or area under the ROC
curve. Friday: 1. Explored
techniques to handle class
imbalance in the dataset, such
as oversampling,
undersampling, or class-
weighted approaches. 2.
Investigated ensemble
learning methods, such as
bagging or boosting, and
implemented them to improve
the fraud detection
performance. 3. Conducted
further analysis and
interpretation of the model
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
calibration to ensure well-
boosting, to combine the
predictions of multiple
machine learning models and
improve the overall fraud
detection performance. 3.
Implement and train the
ensemble models, evaluating
their performance and
comparing them against
individual models. 4. Conduct
further analysis and
interpretation of the model
results, such as analyzing the
model's decision boundaries
or generating explanations for
fraud detection outcomes.
Friday: 1. Fine-tune the fraud
detection models based on the
insights and analysis from
previous days, making
necessary adjustments to
improve their performance. 2.
Conduct extensive testing and
evaluation of the final fraud
detection models using
separate test datasets or real-
world app reviews to assess
their effectiveness and
robustness. 3. Validate the
models against known fraud
cases or ground truth labels,
analyzing their performance
on different types of
fraudulent activities. 4.
Document the evaluation
results, including performance
metrics, model comparisons,
and any refinements made to
the fraud detection models.
Saturday: 1. Prepare a
comprehensive project report
results, such as analyzing
decision boundaries or
generating explanations for
fraud detection outcomes. 4.
Fine-tuned the fraud detection
models based on insights and
analysis. Saturday: 1.
Conducted extensive testing
and evaluation of the final
fraud detection models using
separate test datasets or real-
world app reviews. 2.
Validated the models against
known fraud cases or ground
truth labels, analyzing their
performance on different
types of fraudulent activities.
3. Documented the evaluation
results, including performance
metrics, model comparisons,
and any refinements made to
the fraud detection models. 4.
Prepared a comprehensive
project report summarizing
the methodology, findings,
and conclusions of the project.
Remember to adjust the
achievements based on the
specific progress made in your
project. Regularly
communicate with your team
members, seek guidance from
mentors or advisors, and track
progress to ensure successful
completion of the project.
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
documentation of the project,
summarizing the including the implemented
methodology, findings, and methodologies, findings,
conclusions of the project. 2. challenges faced, and lessons
Include detailed descriptions learned. 2. Reflect on the
of the dataset, preprocessing limitations and potential
steps, sentiment analysis ethical considerations of the
techniques, feature extraction developed fraud detection
pipeline, machine learning system, addressing issues such
algorithms, and evaluation as bias, privacy, or fairness. 3.
metrics. 3. Present the Explore possibilities for
performance results, including collaboration or further
accuracy, precision, recall, F1- research in the field of fraud
score, or area under the ROC detection in mobile apps,
curve, highlighting the sentiment analysis, or related
effectiveness of the developed areas. 4. Present the project's
fraud detection system. 4. outcomes and insights to
Reflect on the overall project stakeholders, such as the
journey, lessons learned, and project team, advisors, or
potential future improvements potential users, and gather
or extensions to the fraud feedback for future
detection system. Remember improvements. Remember to
to adjust the targets based on adjust
the specific requirements and
timeline of your project.
Regularly communicate with
your team 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)