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TextGuard: Identifying and neutralizing adversarial threats in textual data Cover

TextGuard: Identifying and neutralizing adversarial threats in textual data

By: Marwan Omar and  Luay Albtosh  
Open Access
|Dec 2025

Figures & Tables

Fig. 1

Illustration of LOF.

Fig. 2

Pipeline for generating adversarial examples.

Fig. 3

ROC curves for BERT under Deepwordbug (DWB) and Textbugger (TB) attacks.

Illustrates the performance of our three classifiers against the Deepwordbug attack technique prior to the implementation of LOF technique_

DatasetModelAccuracy

AG NEWSBERT21.09
AG NEWSWordCNN13.68
AG NEWSLSTM11.56
MRBERT12.97
MRWordCNN20.59
MRLSTM19.29
YelpBERT9.98
YelpWordCNN9.64
YelpLSTM7.88

Performance of the classifiers against adversarial attacks before the implementation of the LOF technique_

DatasetModelAccuracy (%)

AG NEWSBERT21.09
AG NEWSWordCNN13.68
AG NEWSLSTM11.56
MRBERT12.97
MRWordCNN20.59
MRLSTM19.29
YelpBERT9.98
YelpWordCNN9.64
YelpLSTM7.88

Performance of the classifiers against adversarial attacks after the implementation of the LOF technique_

DatasetModelAccuracy (%)

AG NEWSBERT85.12
AG NEWSWordCNN72.47
AG NEWSLSTM65.78
MRBERT88.39
MRWordCNN74.83
MRLSTM68.55
YelpBERT92.59
YelpWordCNN81.34
YelpLSTM78.45

Datasets_

Dataset NameDataset DescriptionAtributes

YELP [40]Large Yelp Review DatasetSet of 560,000 for training, and 38,000 for testing
MR [41]Movie Review DatasetSet of 5,331 for training, and 5,331 for testing
AG NEWS [42]News Topic ClassificationSet of 12000 for training and 7600 for testing
Language: English
Page range: 405 - 416
Submitted on: Nov 26, 2023
Accepted on: Sep 1, 2024
Published on: Dec 14, 2025
Published by: Harran University
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

© 2025 Marwan Omar, Luay Albtosh, published by Harran University
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.