Tomas Mikolov and his research team at Facebook released FastText, an open-source library for efficient text representation and classification. By breaking words down into sub-word n-grams, FastText allowed neural networks to calculate highly accurate semantic embeddings for rare, misspelled, or completely unseen out-of-vocabulary words, heavily optimizing natural language processing efficiency.
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- The Introduction of the Labeled Wikipedia English Corpus — Computational linguists standardized methods for scraping and indexing the entire text of the Englis...
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