Abstract
The vulnerability of Natural Language Processing (NLP) models to adversarial attacks remains a critical challenge in the field of cybersecurity and AI robustness. While deep learning models have achieved high performance in sentiment analysis, they are susceptible to subtle input perturbations that induce misclassification. This study presents the design and practical implementation of a web-based system (Proof of Concept) that automates the generation of textual adversarial examples using the Bigram Unigram-Semantic Preservation Optimization (BU-SPOF) algorithm. Rather than proposing a novel attack algorithm, our primary contribution is the architectural integration of a dual-source candidate generation strategy (WordNet and OpenHowNet) and a Probability Weighted Word Saliency (PWWS) mechanism to perturb input text while maintaining linguistic coherence. The system was evaluated against a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) sentiment classifier using the IMDB dataset.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Creators: | Creators Email / ID Num. Noor Azmi, Noor Adam adam.azmi1519gmail.com Fairuz, Haslizatul haslizatul@uitm.edu.my Hanum, Mohamed UNSPECIFIED |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics Q Science > QA Mathematics > Instruments and machines > Electronic Computers. Computer Science |
| Divisions: | Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam > College of Computing, Informatics and Mathematics |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Malaysian Journal of Computing (MJoC) |
| UiTM Journal Collections: | UiTM Journals > Malaysian Journal of Computing (MJoC) |
| ISSN: | 2600-8238 |
| Volume: | 11 |
| Number: | 1 |
| Page Range: | pp. 2437-2445 |
| Keywords: | Adversarial examples, BU-SPOF, NLP robustness, Probability weighted word saliency, Sentiment analysis |
| Date: | April 2026 |
| URI: | https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/136304 |
