| """ |
| Clean and deduplicate the SMS Spam Collection v.1. |
| |
| Source corpus: |
| Almeida, T.A., Gomez Hidalgo, J.M., Yamakami, A. (2011). |
| Contributions to the study of SMS Spam Filtering: New Collection and Results. |
| ACM DOCENG 2011. |
| https://archive.ics.uci.edu/dataset/228/sms+spam+collection |
| |
| What this script does (and why): |
| |
| 1. Reads the raw tab-separated file (label\tmessage). |
| 2. Fixes a small set of CP1252 control bytes (e.g. \\x91-\\x97, \\x85) that |
| appear in the original file as artifacts of an earlier round-trip |
| through a Windows-1252 environment. These render as control characters |
| when the file is read as UTF-8; we map them to their intended |
| typographic equivalents (curly quotes, en/em dashes, ellipsis). |
| 3. Cleans whitespace in every message: strips leading/trailing whitespace |
| and collapses runs of internal whitespace (multiple spaces, tabs) to a |
| single space. Casing is preserved. |
| 4. Deduplicates aggressively. The dedupe key applies: |
| - NFKC unicode normalization, |
| - whitespace collapse, |
| - leading/trailing strip, |
| - lowercase. |
| The first occurrence of each normalized key is retained. No label |
| conflicts exist in the corpus. |
| 5. Writes the cleaned data to data.csv and data.jsonl. |
| |
| Usage: |
| python scripts/clean.py \\ |
| --in /path/to/raw/SMSSpamCollection \\ |
| --out /path/to/SMSSpamCollectionDeduplicated |
| """ |
|
|
| from __future__ import annotations |
|
|
| import argparse |
| import csv |
| import json |
| import re |
| import sys |
| import unicodedata |
| from collections import Counter |
| from pathlib import Path |
|
|
| CP1252_FIXES = { |
| "\x91": "'", |
| "\x92": "'", |
| "\x93": '"', |
| "\x94": '"', |
| "\x96": "-", |
| "\x97": "-", |
| "\x85": "...", |
| } |
|
|
|
|
| def repair_cp1252_artifacts(text: str) -> str: |
| """Replace leaked CP1252 control bytes with their intended characters.""" |
| for bad, good in CP1252_FIXES.items(): |
| text = text.replace(bad, good) |
| return text |
|
|
|
|
| def clean_whitespace(message: str) -> str: |
| """Strip leading/trailing whitespace and collapse internal runs of |
| whitespace (multiple spaces, tabs, etc.) to a single space. |
| |
| Applied to the stored message text. Removes typing/encoding artifacts |
| without altering the semantics of the message. |
| """ |
| return re.sub(r"\s+", " ", message.strip()) |
|
|
|
|
| def normalized_key(message: str) -> str: |
| """Build the dedupe key from a message. |
| |
| NFKC + collapse-whitespace + strip + lowercase. Aggressive enough to |
| catch trivial variants; conservative enough to keep genuinely distinct |
| messages separate. |
| """ |
| s = unicodedata.normalize("NFKC", message) |
| s = re.sub(r"\s+", " ", s.strip()) |
| return s.lower() |
|
|
|
|
| def load_raw(path: Path) -> list[tuple[str, str]]: |
| """Read the raw tab-separated SMS file. Returns list of (label, message).""" |
| content = path.read_text(encoding="utf-8") |
| content = repair_cp1252_artifacts(content) |
| rows: list[tuple[str, str]] = [] |
| for line_no, line in enumerate(content.splitlines(), start=1): |
| if not line: |
| continue |
| if "\t" not in line: |
| print(f" warning: line {line_no} has no tab, skipping: {line!r}", |
| file=sys.stderr) |
| continue |
| label, _, message = line.partition("\t") |
| rows.append((label.strip(), message)) |
| return rows |
|
|
|
|
| def deduplicate_and_clean( |
| rows: list[tuple[str, str]], |
| ) -> tuple[list[tuple[str, str]], int, int]: |
| """Apply whitespace cleanup to each message, then deduplicate using |
| normalized_key. First occurrence wins. Returns |
| (cleaned_rows, num_duplicates_removed, num_messages_whitespace_changed).""" |
| seen: set[str] = set() |
| cleaned: list[tuple[str, str]] = [] |
| ws_changed = 0 |
| for label, message in rows: |
| cleaned_message = clean_whitespace(message) |
| if cleaned_message != message: |
| ws_changed += 1 |
| key = normalized_key(cleaned_message) |
| if key in seen: |
| continue |
| seen.add(key) |
| cleaned.append((label, cleaned_message)) |
| return cleaned, len(rows) - len(cleaned), ws_changed |
|
|
|
|
| def write_csv(rows: list[tuple[str, str]], path: Path) -> None: |
| """Write data as CSV with proper escaping. Columns: label, text.""" |
| with path.open("w", encoding="utf-8", newline="") as fp: |
| writer = csv.writer(fp, quoting=csv.QUOTE_ALL) |
| writer.writerow(["label", "text"]) |
| for label, message in rows: |
| writer.writerow([label, message]) |
|
|
|
|
| def write_jsonl(rows: list[tuple[str, str]], path: Path) -> None: |
| """Write data as line-delimited JSON. Schema: {"label": ..., "text": ...}.""" |
| with path.open("w", encoding="utf-8") as fp: |
| for label, message in rows: |
| json.dump({"label": label, "text": message}, fp, ensure_ascii=False) |
| fp.write("\n") |
|
|
|
|
| def summarize(label: str, rows: list[tuple[str, str]]) -> None: |
| counts = Counter(r[0] for r in rows) |
| total = sum(counts.values()) |
| print(f"{label}: total={total}") |
| for k in sorted(counts): |
| v = counts[k] |
| pct = 100.0 * v / total if total else 0 |
| print(f" {k}: {v} ({pct:.1f}%)") |
|
|
|
|
| def main() -> int: |
| parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__, |
| formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter) |
| parser.add_argument("--in", dest="input", required=True, |
| help="Path to raw SMSSpamCollection file") |
| parser.add_argument("--out", dest="output", required=True, |
| help="Output directory for cleaned data") |
| args = parser.parse_args() |
|
|
| in_path = Path(args.input) |
| out_dir = Path(args.output) |
| out_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True) |
|
|
| print(f"Reading raw corpus: {in_path}") |
| raw = load_raw(in_path) |
| summarize("Raw", raw) |
|
|
| print("\nDeduplicating (NFKC + whitespace + lowercase key) ...") |
| print("Also stripping leading/trailing whitespace and collapsing internal runs ...") |
| deduped, removed, ws_changed = deduplicate_and_clean(raw) |
| print(f" Duplicates removed: {removed}") |
| print(f" Messages with whitespace changes: {ws_changed}") |
| summarize("Cleaned", deduped) |
|
|
| csv_path = out_dir / "data.csv" |
| jsonl_path = out_dir / "data.jsonl" |
| write_csv(deduped, csv_path) |
| write_jsonl(deduped, jsonl_path) |
|
|
| print(f"\nWrote:") |
| print(f" {csv_path} ({csv_path.stat().st_size} bytes)") |
| print(f" {jsonl_path} ({jsonl_path.stat().st_size} bytes)") |
| return 0 |
|
|
|
|
| if __name__ == "__main__": |
| raise SystemExit(main()) |
|
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