Building detecting SMS Spam Using Text Classification Project
In today’s world, spam messages flood our inboxes, making it difficult to distinguish between important and irrelevant texts. Companies often lose customers because they can't properly filter spam, which frustrates users. What if we could build a system that automatically identifies spam messages and flags them? This project solves that problem by building an SMS Spam Classifier that uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to automatically label SMS messages as spam or ham (not spam). Solution: Text Classification Using Bag of Words To solve this problem, we’ll break down the solution into several key steps: Data Preprocessing : We’ll clean the text data by converting everything to lowercase, removing unnecessary characters, and applying stopwords filtering (to remove common English words that don’t add much meaning, like “the”, “is”, “in”). Stemming will be used to reduce words to their root forms (e.g., "running" becomes "run"). Bag of Words M...