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Development and Comparative Analysis of AI-Based Classification Models for Mitigating Email-Related Cyber Risks

Cilt: 17 Sayı: 3 17 Ekim 2026
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Development and Comparative Analysis of AI-Based Classification Models for Mitigating Email-Related Cyber Risks

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Corporate email systems are a fundamental component of businesses' communication and business processes, but they also bring significant cybersecurity risks such as spam and phishing attacks. Especially as digitalization increases, the accurate and rapid detection of email-based threats faced by businesses has become a critical requirement. This research presents a comparative performance analysis of machine learning and transformer-based deep learning models for the automatic classification of spam, normal, and phishing messages. A large-scale, three-class dataset consisting of 479,466 English email records was used in the study. Traditional machine learning algorithms such as Support Vector Machines (SVM-LinearSVC), Logistic Regression (LR), Naive Bayes (NB), and Decision Tree (DT) models, as well as transformer-based BERT, RoBERTa, and ELECTRA models, were evaluated. The performance of the models was analyzed using accuracy, precision, recall, F1-Score, ROC-AUC, and confusion matrix metrics. In addition, statistical comparisons, phishing-specific security errors, cost-sensitive scenarios, and computational efficiency were evaluated to provide a more comprehensive assessment of model performance. Transformer-based models generally achieved stronger overall and class-specific classification performance, while conventional machine learning models offered substantially lower computational requirements. BERT achieved the highest overall performance, with 98.84% accuracy and a Macro F1-Score of 0.9827, while RoBERTa produced statistically comparable results. Security-oriented and computational analyses further showed that the model with the highest aggregate performance was not necessarily optimal for all deployment scenarios, highlighting the importance of considering misclassification consequences, computational requirements, email traffic volume, and available infrastructure in model selection. It is considered that the research contributes to the literature on email security and AI-based cyber risk management through models developed using a large-scale, three-class dataset, diverse AI architectures, and security-oriented evaluation criteria.

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I declare that the prepared article is a study that does not require ethics committee approval and/or legal/special permission.

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Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

Derin Öğrenme, Makine Öğrenme (Diğer), Doğal Dil İşleme, Planlama ve Karar Verme

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yayımlanma Tarihi

17 Ekim 2026

Gönderilme Tarihi

14 Mayıs 2026

Kabul Tarihi

6 Ekim 2026

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2026 Cilt: 17 Sayı: 3

Kaynak Göster

APA
Tepeli, M. (2026). Development and Comparative Analysis of AI-Based Classification Models for Mitigating Email-Related Cyber Risks. Dicle Üniversitesi Mühendislik Fakültesi Mühendislik Dergisi, 17(3). https://doi.org/10.24012/dumf.1949394
AMA
1.Tepeli M. Development and Comparative Analysis of AI-Based Classification Models for Mitigating Email-Related Cyber Risks. DÜMF MD. 2026;17(3). doi:10.24012/dumf.1949394
Chicago
Tepeli, Mehmet. 2026. “Development and Comparative Analysis of AI-Based Classification Models for Mitigating Email-Related Cyber Risks”. Dicle Üniversitesi Mühendislik Fakültesi Mühendislik Dergisi 17 (3). https://doi.org/10.24012/dumf.1949394.
EndNote
Tepeli M (01 Ekim 2026) Development and Comparative Analysis of AI-Based Classification Models for Mitigating Email-Related Cyber Risks. Dicle Üniversitesi Mühendislik Fakültesi Mühendislik Dergisi 17 3
IEEE
[1]M. Tepeli, “Development and Comparative Analysis of AI-Based Classification Models for Mitigating Email-Related Cyber Risks”, DÜMF MD, c. 17, sy 3, Eki. 2026, doi: 10.24012/dumf.1949394.
ISNAD
Tepeli, Mehmet. “Development and Comparative Analysis of AI-Based Classification Models for Mitigating Email-Related Cyber Risks”. Dicle Üniversitesi Mühendislik Fakültesi Mühendislik Dergisi 17/3 (01 Ekim 2026). https://doi.org/10.24012/dumf.1949394.
JAMA
1.Tepeli M. Development and Comparative Analysis of AI-Based Classification Models for Mitigating Email-Related Cyber Risks. DÜMF MD. 2026;17. doi:10.24012/dumf.1949394.
MLA
Tepeli, Mehmet. “Development and Comparative Analysis of AI-Based Classification Models for Mitigating Email-Related Cyber Risks”. Dicle Üniversitesi Mühendislik Fakültesi Mühendislik Dergisi, c. 17, sy 3, Ekim 2026, doi:10.24012/dumf.1949394.
Vancouver
1.Mehmet Tepeli. Development and Comparative Analysis of AI-Based Classification Models for Mitigating Email-Related Cyber Risks. DÜMF MD. 01 Ekim 2026;17(3). doi:10.24012/dumf.1949394
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