SPAM EMAIL FILTER WITH NLP: A MACHINE LEARNING
APPROACH
ABSTRACT
With the rapid growth of digital communication, unwanted and malicious email
messages—commonly known as spam—have become a major concern for both
individuals and organizations. These spam emails often contain phishing links,
fraudulent offers, or malware, posing significant security threats. To address this
problem, the proposed project, “Spam Email Filter using NLP,” employs Natural
Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) techniques to effectively
identify and filter spam emails.
The system processes raw email text through several NLP stages such as
tokenization, stopword removal, normalization, and feature extraction. Using TF-IDF
(Term Frequency–Inverse Document Frequency) vectorization, the textual data is
transformed into numerical representations suitable for machine learning models.
The Naive Bayes classifier is then trained on the preprocessed dataset to distinguish
between spam and ham (legitimate) emails based on learned probability
distributions.
The model’s performance is evaluated using metrics such as accuracy, precision,
recall, and F1-score, achieving high accuracy with minimal false positives. This
approach proves to be computationally efficient and adaptable for real-time spam
detection. The developed system enhances user security by automatically filtering
malicious content, improving the overall email experience. Future enhancements can
include multilingual support and real-time detection for dynamic spam patterns.
TEAM MEMBERS:
1. G. Prudhvi Kumar (Y22CY3219)
2. B. Giridhara Reddy (Y22CY3204)
3. G. VIGNESH (Y22CY3221) UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF:
4. D. VIJAY (Y22CY3212) Dr. U Sathish Kumar