My General Topic Classification Model — From Labelling to Deployment
Last Updated on November 5, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Wee Tee Soh
Originally published on Towards AI.
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During the course of my work in NLP, I often find a need to do initial filtering of massive numbers of documents or texts in order to remove the noise from the gold that I want. For a start, I could categorize them into well-defined general topics (e.g., food, finance, sports, etc.) using a topic classifier. Specifically, into one of the following 16 broad topics:
entertainment & musichealthbusiness & financesportsreligionpets & animalsfamily & relationshipsfoodtraveleducation & referencepolitics & governmentsociety & culturemundanecomputers & internetscience & mathematicsothers
After which, I can then focus on a particular topic(s) of interest… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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