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FastText is the best text classification library for a quick baseline
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Re: FastText is the best text classification library for a quick baseline
#12Not only for classification, fastText is really good (and fast) at language identification[0]
To use fastText in Python in a scikit-learn style (also inside sklearn pipelines), I’d recommend trying skift[1]
[0] https://ricardoanderegg.com/posts/python-fast-language-ident... [1] https://github.com/shaypal5/skift
Re: FastText is the best text classification library for a quick baseline
#13I feel like using HuggingFace Transformers is just as easy right now and it will probably have better performance. Of course, GPU machine is needed for training.