""" 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())