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Re:How we built Tagger News: machine learning on a tight sch... by minimaxir on Monday May 22, 2017 @02:12PM (#14395730)
Link to original HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14337275

It's worth noting for future reference that in terms of supervised learning of labels given a text document input, fasttext (https://github.com/facebookresearch/fastText) is leagues ahead of conventional approaches in both accuracy and training speed, and there is a Python interface (https://github.com/salestock/fastText.py) for use with Django/Flask (unfortunately, recent fasttext changes have broken the interface for now).

Re:How we built Tagger News: machine learning on a tight sch... by snissn on Monday May 22, 2017 @03:16PM (#14396165)
Can you suggest any unsupervised learning? I want to take a body of text associated with users and come up with keywords/topics with each user. Thanks! :)
Re:How we built Tagger News: machine learning on a tight sch... by capybara on Monday May 22, 2017 @03:50PM (#14396401)
Some fairly widely-used techniques include LSI, LDA, and word2vec or doc2vec. There a lot of different techniques out there! I'm one of the creators of Tagger News, and we used LDA with python's Gensim package. Here's a good tutorial: https://radimrehurek.com/gensim/tut2.html
Re:How we built Tagger News: machine learning on a tight sch... by minimaxir on Monday May 22, 2017 @03:53PM (#14396431)
Note that fasttext is the next generation of word2vec/doc2vec, and shares many of the same creators.
Re:How we built Tagger News: machine learning on a tight sch... by projectorlochsa on Monday May 22, 2017 @04:22PM (#14396625)
How does fasttext compare to vowpal wabbit?
Re:How we built Tagger News: machine learning on a tight sch... by skystrife on Monday May 22, 2017 @06:40PM (#14397452)
Re:How we built Tagger News: machine learning on a tight sch... by gerenuk on Monday May 22, 2017 @10:32PM (#14398408)
Vowpal wabbit is approx. 4-8x faster than gensim but the accuracy will be less compared to gensim.
Re:How we built Tagger News: machine learning on a tight sch... by _eht on Monday May 22, 2017 @07:56PM (#14397787)
I noticed some things were pretty terribly tagged earlier this week. Robots have a ways to go, this is good news.