Spam or Ham: Introduction to Natural Language Processing Part 2

Mandy Gu
Towards Data Science
7 min readSep 30, 2018

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Spam … or ham?

This is the second part of my series covering the basics of natural language processing. If you haven’t read the first part yet, you can find it here.

In this part, we will go through an end to end walk through of building a very simple text classifier in Python 3. We will be using the SMS Spam Collection Dataset which tags 5,574 text messages based on…

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