Fasttext
Sonali Ajankar
Mar 22, 2022
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CommentsWhat is FastText?
It is an open-source, free, lightweight library that allows users to learn text representations and text classifiers. It works on standard, generic hardware. Models can later be reduced in size to even fit on mobile devices.
FastText is a tool in the Text & Language Models category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Train supervised and unsupervised representations of words and sentencesWritten in C++
FastText Pros & Cons
Pros of FastText
- ✓Simple
Cons of FastText
- ✗No in-built performance plotting facility or to get it
- ✗No step by step API access
- ✗No step by step API support
FastText Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to FastText?
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