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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

FastText word vectors

The second major focus of fastText is creating word embeddings for the input text. During training, fastText looks at the supplied text corpus and forms a high-dimensional vector space model, where it tries to encapsulate as much meaning as possible. The aim of creating the vectors space is that the vectors of similar words should be near to each other. In fastText, these word vectors are then saved in two files, similar to what you have seen in text classification: a .bin file and a .vec file.

In this section, we will look at the creation and use of word vectors using the fastText command line.

Creating word vectors

We will now take a look at how to go about creating word vectors in fastText. You will...