Text classification

Text classification is one of the very common use cases of NLP. Text classification can be used for use cases such as email SPAM detection, identifying retail product hierarchy, and sentiment analysis. This process is typically a classification problem wherein we are trying to identify a specific topic from a natural language source of a large volume of data. Within each of the data groups, we may have multiple topics discussed and hence it is important to classify the article or the textual information into logical groups. Text classification techniques help us to do that.

These techniques require a good deal of computing power if the data volume is huge and it is recommended to use a distributed computing framework for ...

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