textclass

textclass

Text classification tool for Classificationbox.

Usage

1. Prepare teaching data
2. Run Classificationbox
3. Teach and test

Prepare teaching data

Create a directory structure that organizes the files into classes, with each folder as the class name:

/teaching-items
	/class1
		class1example1.txt
		class1example2.txt
		class1example3.txt
	/class2
		class2example1.txt
		class2example2.txt
		class2example3.txt
	/class3
		class3example1.txt
		class3example2.txt
		class3example3.txt

The files can be text of any size, one file per example.

Run Classificationbox

In a terminal do:

docker run -p 8080:8080 -e "MB_KEY=$MB_KEY" machinebox/classificationbox

• Get yourself an MB_KEY from https://machinebox.io/account

Teach and test

Use the textclass tool to teach the

textclass -teachratio 0.8 -src ./teaching-items

The tool will post a random 80% (-teachratio 0.8) of the files to Classificationbox for teaching, and the remaining items will be used to test the model.

Watch the magic happen

You will be prompted a few times as the tool goes through its various stages. The tool will:

1. Create a new model
2. Use a percentage of the data to teach the model
3. Use the remaining items to validate the model
4. Display the results, including the percentage accurary of the model