Classification of Spam Text using SVM

The necessity for spam detection is particularly pertinent nowadays, as there is no quality control over social media, and users have the ability to distribute unverified material, therefore facilitating fraud and deceit. Spam detection can aid in the prevention of such fraud. This scenario has developed mostly as a result of the distribution of disparate, unconfirmed information via shopping websites, emails, and text messages (SMS). There are several ways of categorising and identifying spam. Each of them has certain advantages and disadvantages. The machine learning model “Support Vector Machine” is employed to detect spam in this case. SVM is a basic concept: the method proposes a line or hyperplane to classify the data. The model can categorise any type of text into a given category after being fed a set of labelled training data for each category.