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fastText Quick Start Guide

By : Joydeep Bhattacharjee
Book Image

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

Windows and Linux

We would suggest that you use PowerShell for your windows command line as that is more powerful then simple cmd.

Task Windows Linux/macOS
Creating a directory mkdir mkdir
Change directory cd cd
Move files move mv
Unzip files GUI and double click unzip
Top of the file get-content

head

Contents of the file type

cat

Piping this pipes objects

this pipes text

Bottom of the file -wait parameter with get-content

tail

python and perl commands work the same way in windows as they work in bash and hence you can use those files and especially perl one liners in similar way.