Bag of Tricks for Efficient Text Classification

Link to source code: https://github.com/facebookresearch/fastText

The big result here is the 15,000x speedup compared to a neural network, and which increases as the size of the dataset increases. But this doesn't mean neural networks are worthless. From the paper:

Although deep neural networks have in theory much higher representational power than shallow models, it is not clear if simple text classification problems such as sentiment analysis are the right ones to evaluate them.

That FB hand-off page has an annoying auto refresh with NoScript enabled.

So, here's the PDF it points to. I guess I'll change it from linking the PDF document to a link to its abstract page, while I'm at it.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1607.01759v3

Is this unsupervised classification? How good are the practical results?

this is great, just what i needed for a project at work.

thanks for sharing this link!!