Spam SMS Filtering Using Support Vector Machines

In recent years, SMS spam messages are increasing exponentially due to the increase in mobile phone users. Also, there is a yearly increment in the volume of mobile phone spam. Filtering the spam message has become a key aspect. On the other side, machine learning has become an attractive research area and shown the capacity in data analysis. So, in this paper, two popular algorithms named Naive Bayes and support vector machine are applied to SMS data. The SMS dataset is considered from Kaggle resource. The detailed result analysis is presented. Accuracy of 96.19% and 98.79% is noticed for the chosen algorithms, respectively, for spam SMS detection.