SMS Spam Detection using Advance Naive-Bayes Approach

Recently, with increased use of mobile phones, it has transformed into a multibillion-dollar Short Message Service or SMS. However, the drop in the cost of messaging services has led to an increased number of unsolicited commercial messages, or spam, being delivered to mobile phones. Several reasons exist for which traditional algorithms used in email filtering may not efficiently classify the spam in SMS such as the absence of strong SMS spam databases, with the short length and features of the message, the informal language used, etc. This paper uses a real SMS spam database After preprocessing the data and extraction of relevant features, Naïve Bayes machine learning techniques is applied to get the results. Then it is analyzed using confusion matrix, accuracy, precision and recall values. A learning curve with clearly defined relationship between the training and testing data set and overall error at the end.