How to identify Spam using Natural Language Processing (NLP)?

Humans master millions of words, but computationally speaking: how can we manipulate large amounts of text using programming techniques?

The idea that computers can understand ordinary languages and hold conversations with human beings has been a staple of science fiction. However, the first half of the twentieth century and was envisaged in a classic paper by Alan Turing (1950) as a hallmark of computational intelligence.

This article will focus on how computer systems can analyze and interpret texts, using the Natural Language Processing (NLP). For that, you should install Natural Language Toolkit, you can do it from http://nltk.org. Instructions are available on the cited website along with details of associated packages that need to be installed as well, including Python itself, which is also freely available.

What is Natural Language Processing (NLP) ?

Natural Language processing or NLP is a subset of Artificial Intelligence (AI), where it is basically responsible for the understanding of human language by a machine or a robot.

One of the important subtopics in NLP is Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and the reason is that it is used to understand the structure and meaning of human language, and then…