Text Classification & Word Representations using FastText (An NLP library by Facebook)
Introduction
If you put a status update on Facebook about purchasing a car -don’t be surprised if Facebook serves you a car ad on your screen. This is not black magic! This is Facebook leveraging the text data to serve you better ads.
The picture below takes a jibe at a challenge while dealing with text data.
Well, it clearly failed in the above attempt to deliver the right ad. It is all the more important to capture the context in which the word has been used. This is a common problem in Natural Processing Language (NLP) tasks.
A single word with the same spelling and pronunciation (homonyms) can be used in multiple contexts and a potential solution to the above problem is computing word representations.
Now, imagine the challenge for Facebook. Facebook deals with enormous amount of text data on a daily basis in the form of status updates, comments etc. And