fastText Quick Start Guide: Get started with Facebook's library for text representation and classification

Perform efficient fast text representation and classification with Facebook's fastText library

Key Features
Introduction to Facebook's fastText library for NLP
Perform efficient word representations, sentence classification, vector representation
Build better, more scalable solutions for text representation and classification

Book Description
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 efficient data insights requires powerful NLP tools like fastText.

This book is your ideal introduction to fastText. You will learn 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 the fastText models to mobile. By the end of this book, you will have all the required knowledge to use fastText in your own applications at work or projects.

What you will learn
Create models using the default command line options in fastText
Understand the algorithms used in fastText to create word vectors
Combine the command line text transformation capabilities and the fasttext library to implement a training, validation and prediction pipeline
Explore word representation and sentence classification using fastText
Use Gensim and spaCy to load the vectors, transform, lemmatise and perform other NLP tasks efficiently
Develop a fastText NLP classifier using popular frameworks such as Keras, Tensorflow and PyTorch

Who This Book Is For
This book is for data analysts, data scientists, and machine learning developers who want to perform efficient word representation and sentence classification using Facebook's fastText library. Basic knowledge of Python programming is required.