Data Science Asked on December 19, 2020
I am having some difficulties in improving results from running a Naive Bayes algorithm.
My dataset consists of 39 columns (some categorical, some numerical).
However I only considered the main variable, i.e. Text, which contains all the spam and ham messages.
Since it is a spam filtering, I think that this field can be good.
So I used countvectorizer and fit transform using them after removing stopwords.
I am getting a 60% of accuracy which is very very low!
What do you think may cause this low result? Is there anything that I can do to improve it?
These are the columns out of 39 that I am considering:
Index(['Date', 'Username', 'Subject', 'Target', 'Country', 'Website','Text', 'Capital', 'Punctuation'],
dtype='object')
Date
is in date format (e.g. 2018-02-06
)
Username
is a string (e.g. Math
)
Subject
is a string (e.g. I need your help
)
Target
is a binary variable (1
-spam or 0
-not spam)
Country
is a string (e.g. US
)
Website
is a string (e.g. www.viagra.com
)
Text
is the corpus of the email and it is a string (e.g. I need your HELP!!
)
Capital
is a string (e.g. HELP
)
Punctuation
is string (!!
)
What I have done is the following:
removing stopwords in Text:
def clean_text(text):
lim_pun = [char for char in string.punctuation if char in "&#^_"]
nopunc = [char for char in text if char not in lim_pun]
nopunc = ''.join(nopunc)
other_stop=['•','...in','...the','...you've','–','—','-','⋆','...','C.','c','|','...The','...The','...When','...A','C','+','1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9','10', '2016', 'speak','also', 'seen','[5].', 'using', 'get', 'instead', "that's", '......','may', 'e', '...it', 'puts', '...over', '[✯]','happens', "they're",'hwo', '...a', 'called', '50s','c;', '20', 'per', 'however,','it,', 'yet', 'one', 'bs,', 'ms,', 'sr.', '...taking', 'may', '...of', 'course,', 'get', 'likely', 'no,']
ext_stopwords=stopwords.words('english')+other_stop
clean_words = [word for word in nopunc.split() if word.lower() not in ext_stopwords]
return clean_words
Then applying these changes to my dataset:
from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import CountVectorizer
import string
from nltk.corpus import stopwords
df=df.dropna(subset=['Subject', 'Text'])
df['Corpus']=df['Subject']+df['Text']
mex = CountVectorizer(analyzer=clean_text).fit_transform(df['Corpus'].str.lower())
and split my dataset into train and test:
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(mex, df['Target'], test_size = 0.80, random_state = 0)
df
includes 1110 emails with 322 spam emails.
Then I consider my classifier:
# Multinomial Naive Bayes
from sklearn.naive_bayes import MultinomialNB
classifier = MultinomialNB()
classifier.fit(X_train, y_train)
print(classifier.predict(X_train))
print(y_train.values)
# Train data set
from sklearn.metrics import classification_report,confusion_matrix, accuracy_score
from sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score
pred = classifier.predict(X_train)
print(classification_report(y_train ,pred ))
print('Confusion Matrix: n',confusion_matrix(y_train,pred))
print()
print("MNB Accuracy Score -> ",accuracy_score(y_train, pred)*100)
print('Predicted value: ',classifier.predict(X_test))
print('Actual value: ',y_test.values)
and evaluate the model on the test set:
from sklearn.metrics import classification_report,confusion_matrix, accuracy_score
pred = classifier.predict(X_test)
print(classification_report(y_test ,pred ))
print('Confusion Matrix: n', confusion_matrix(y_test,pred))
print()
print("MNB Accuracy Score -> ",accuracy_score(y_test, pred)*100)
getting approx 60%, which is not good at all.
Output:
precision recall f1-score support
0.0 0.77 0.34 0.47 192
1.0 0.53 0.88 0.66 164
accuracy 0.59 356
macro avg 0.65 0.61 0.57 356
weighted avg 0.66 0.59 0.56 356
Confusion Matrix:
[[ 66 126]
[ 20 144]]
I do not know if the problem are the stopwords or the fact that I am considering only Text or Corpus as column (it would be also good to consider Capital letters and punctuation as variables in the model).
Your model certainly overfits. It's likely that the main issue is the inclusion in the features of words which appear very rarely (especially those which appear only once in the corpus):
The solution is to filter out words which occur less than $N$ times in the data. You should try with several values of $N$, starting with $N=2$.
Another issue: in your current process the data is preprocessed before splitting between training and test set, this can cause data leakage. Note that filtering out words of low frequency should be done using the training data only, and then just selecting the same words on the test set (ignoring any other word).
Correct answer by Erwan on December 19, 2020
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