junwei-pan / fasttext_benchmark

fasttext_benchmark

Test the fasttext model on text classification over several datasets provided in Xiang Zhang's paper Character-level Convolutional Networks for Text Classification(Download Datasets from Google Drive), the code is based on the fasttext example on keras: keras fasttext example.

Experiment results

• ag_news

embedding_dim	1 epoch	2 epochs	3 epochs	4 epochs	5 epochs
20	84.89%	86.70%	87.86%	88.54%	89.50%
50	86.29%	88.01%	89.34%	89.92%	90.32%

• dbpedia

embedding_dim	1 epoch	2 epochs	3 epochs	4 epochs	5 epochs
20	94.06%	96.36%	97.05%	97.40%	97.56%
50	96.00%	97.23%	97.61%	97.76%	97.86%

Reference

1. Bags of Tricks for Efficient Text Classification
2. Character-level Convolutional Networks for Text Classification
3. keras fasttext example