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Java Data Science Cookbook

By : Rushdi Shams
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Java Data Science Cookbook

By: Rushdi Shams

Overview of this book

If you are looking to build data science models that are good for production, Java has come to the rescue. With the aid of strong libraries such as MLlib, Weka, DL4j, and more, you can efficiently perform all the data science tasks you need to. This unique book provides modern recipes to solve your common and not-so-common data science-related problems. We start with recipes to help you obtain, clean, index, and search data. Then you will learn a variety of techniques to analyze, learn from, and retrieve information from data. You will also understand how to handle big data, learn deeply from data, and visualize data. Finally, you will work through unique recipes that solve your problems while taking data science to production, writing distributed data science applications, and much more - things that will come in handy at work.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Java Data Science Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Classifying text documents using Mallet


Our final two recipes in this chapter will be the classical machine-learning classification problem-classification of documents using language modelling. In this recipe, we will be using Mallet and its command line interface to train a model and apply the model on unseen test data.

Classification in Mallet depends on three steps:

  1. Convert your training documents into Mallet's native format.

  2. Train your model on the training documents.

  3. Apply the model to classify unseen test documents.

When it was mentioned that you need to convert your training documents into Mallet's native format, the technical meaning of this is to convert documents into feature vectors. You do not need to extract any feature from your training or test documents as Mallet will be taking care of this. Either you can physically separate training and testing data, or you can have one flat list of documents and segment training and testing portion from command line options.

Let us consider...