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How to avoid the ambiguity in this sentence. malapps = malicious application 1. We conduct extensive experiments on large real-world app sets consisting of 100,000 benign apps collected from six app markets and 20,000 malapps. Q: "The set consists 100,000 benign apps and 20,000 malapps.", this is the original meaning. When appending " collected from six app markets", possible ambiguity ensues as following: 1) consisting of [100,000 benign apps collected from six app markets] and [20,000 malapps]. 2) consisting of 100,000 benign apps collected from [six app markets] and [20,000 malapps]. How to improve it and avoid this ambiguity? 2. With the selected discriminatory features, the Logistic Regression classifier yields the best true positive rate as 96% with a false positive rate as 0.06%. Q: I feel there is something wrong in this sentence, but I cannot tell the point. Is it a local, precise expression?3. "K Lab reported that they found 15,000 new unique malicious programs that ran on smartphone in the first half of 2014, which is 20.1 percent more than in the entire year of 2013." Q: Another annoying contrast between numbers. Is it a local, precise expression? Thanks.

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I'll have a go at answering question 1... I think this is about how many apps, including malapps, there are in total - is that correct? (i.e. are there 100,000 or 120,000?) The original phrase "The set consists 100,000 benign apps and 20,000 malapps." means that there must be 120,000. The best way to avoid ambiguity is to say something like: 'The set is collected from six app markets and consists of 120,000 apps in total, of which 100,000 are benign and 20,000 malicious (malapps).' I don't really understand question 2 :-( Question 3 is also a bit difficult to answer. I think it's fine in terms of grammar, etc (apart from maybe you should say 'smartphones'?), but it's a confusing way of trying to say something and I wonder how many people would understand the point that you're making. It would be better to compare a half year against another half year perhaps?

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