Text Categorization Model Based on Linear Support Vector Machine

Authors

  • Linda Uchenna Oghenekaro Department of Computer Science, University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, 5323, Nigeria.
  • Augustus Tammy Benson Department of Computer Science, University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, 5323, Nigeria.

Keywords:

Support vector machine, spam, email, ham, model, feature extraction

Abstract

Spam mails constitute a lot of nuisances in our electronic mail boxes, as they occupy huge spaces which could rather be used for storing relevant data. They also slow down network connection speed and make communication over a network slow. Attackers have often employed spam mails as a means of sending phishing mails to their targets in order to perpetrate data breach attacks and other forms of cybercrimes. Researchers have developed models using machine learning algorithms and other techniques to filter spam mails from relevant mails, however, some algorithms and classifiers are weak, not robust, and lack visualization models which would make the results interpretable by even non-tech savvy people. In this work, Linear Support Vector Machine (LSVM) was used to develop a text categorization model for email texts based on two categories: Ham and Spam. The processes involved were dataset import, preprocessing (removal of stop words, vectorization), feature selection (weighing and selection), development of classification model (splitting data into train (80%) and test sets (20%), importing classifier, training classifier), evaluation of model, deployment of model and spam filtering application on a server (Heroku) using Flask framework. The Agile methodology was adopted for the system design; the Python programming language was implemented for model development. HTML and CSS was used for the development of the web application. The results from the system testing showed that the system had an overall accuracy of 98.56%, recall: 96.5%, F1-score: 97% and F-beta score of 96.23%. This study therefore could be beneficial to e-mail users, to data analysts, and to researchers in the field of NLP.

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2022-01-04

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Oghenekaro , L. U. ., & Augustus Tammy Benson. (2022). Text Categorization Model Based on Linear Support Vector Machine. American Scientific Research Journal for Engineering, Technology, and Sciences, 85(1), 144–156. Retrieved from https://www.asrjetsjournal.org/index.php/American_Scientific_Journal/article/view/7218

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