Project - Building Spam Classifier

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Spam Classifier - Create Transformer to Convert Emails to Word Counters

Now we will create a transformer that we will use to convert emails to word counters. Here we will use NLTK for stemming, and Regex for to replace URLs with the word "URL".

Stemming is the process of reducing a word to its word stem that affixes to suffixes and prefixes or to the roots of words known as a lemma. Stemming and AI knowledge extract meaningful information from vast sources like big data or the Internet since additional forms of a word related to a subject may need to be searched to get the best results. Stemming is also a part of queries and Internet search engines.

Here we will split sentences into words using Python's split() method, which uses whitespaces for word boundaries.

INSTRUCTIONS

Copy paste the following code for the transformer as is:

import nltk
from sklearn.base import BaseEstimator, TransformerMixin

url_extractor = None

stemmer = nltk.PorterStemmer()

class EmailToWordCounterTransformer(BaseEstimator, TransformerMixin):
    def __init__(self, strip_headers=True, lower_case=True, remove_punctuation=True,
                 replace_urls=True, replace_numbers=True, stemming=True):
        self.strip_headers = strip_headers
        self.lower_case = lower_case
        self.remove_punctuation = remove_punctuation
        self.replace_urls = replace_urls
        self.replace_numbers = replace_numbers
        self.stemming = stemming
    def fit(self, X, y=None):
        return self
    def transform(self, X, y=None):
        X_transformed = []
        for email in X:
            text = email_to_text(email) or ""
            if self.lower_case:
                text = text.lower()
            if self.replace_urls and url_extractor is not None:
                urls = list(set(url_extractor.find_urls(text)))
                urls.sort(key=lambda url: len(url), reverse=True)
                for url in urls:
                    text = text.replace(url, " URL ")
            if self.replace_numbers:
                text = re.sub(r'\d+(?:\.\d*(?:[eE]\d+))?', 'NUMBER', text)
            if self.remove_punctuation:
                text = re.sub(r'\W+', ' ', text, flags=re.M)
            word_counts = Counter(text.split())
            if self.stemming and stemmer is not None:
                stemmed_word_counts = Counter()
                for word, count in word_counts.items():
                    stemmed_word = stemmer.stem(word)
                    stemmed_word_counts[stemmed_word] += count
                word_counts = stemmed_word_counts
            X_transformed.append(word_counts)
        return np.array(X_transformed)
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