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We evaluate existing benchmarks, introduce a novel hybrid word embedding model, and implement a web framework for text classification. Our approach integrates traditional frequency\u2013inverse document frequency (TF\u2013IDF) methods with sophisticated feature extraction techniques, considering linguistic, psychological, morphological, and grammatical aspects of the text. Through a series of experiments on diverse datasets, applying transfer and incremental learning techniques, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our hybrid model in surpassing benchmarks and outperforming alternative experimental setups. Furthermore, our findings emphasize the importance of dataset alignment and balance in transfer learning, as well as the utility of incremental learning in maintaining high detection performance while reducing runtime. 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