NLP: Detecting Spam Messages with TensorFlow (Part I)

Training a recurrent neural network to conduct text classification

Michael Grogan
Towards Data Science
5 min readSep 19, 2020

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Here is an example of how a recurrent neural network can be used to detect spam messages. The dataset used in this example is sourced from Kaggle (original authors Almeida and Hidalgo, 2011).

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