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fastText Quick Start Guide

By : Joydeep Bhattacharjee
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fastText Quick Start Guide

By: Joydeep Bhattacharjee

Overview of this book

Facebook's fastText library handles text representation and classification, used for Natural Language Processing (NLP). Most organizations have to deal with enormous amounts of text data on a daily basis, and gaining efficient data insights requires powerful NLP tools such as fastText.  This book is your ideal introduction to fastText. You will learn how to create fastText models from the command line, without the need for complicated code. You will explore the algorithms that fastText is built on and how to use them for word representation and text classification.  Next, you will use fastText in conjunction with other popular libraries and frameworks such as Keras, TensorFlow, and PyTorch.  Finally, you will deploy fastText models to mobile devices. By the end of this book, you will have all the required knowledge to use fastText in your own applications at work or in projects.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
First Steps
4
The FastText Model
7
Using FastText in Your Own Models

Deploying to the web

Now that you have the ways and means to create your own fastText models, you will probably need to deploy them to production so that those models can be utilized to create applications and endpoints to use. There are a lot of frameworks in Python that can be used to create such web apps. Flask, Django, and Pyramid are some popular Python web frameworks. In this section, we will take the example of flask and build a simple web nearest neighbor search application in flask.

Flask

Flask is a popular web framework, and it is classified as a microframework as it does not require any external tools or libraries. There are no database abstraction layers, or form validation, or other components built into flask...