Bot Detection in Social Media

Student: Sumekenov Akhmad

Supervisor: Ekaterina Artemova

Educational Programme: Applied Mathematics and Information Science (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 8

Year of Graduation: 2020

The purpose of this work is to classify and detect bots in the social network Vkontakte. The existing methods are compared in this work. Classification algorithms that use comments among other things are implemented and tested. The implemented method has high accuracy.

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